So this is "what Indiegogo is supposed to be". No wonder why people, who are ignorant of this fact, are mad with Cyberdrive. On their campaign video (here), they said: "The Seiun is ready to go on mass production. We just need your help to get there. We have working prototypes of the Seiun...

  My opinion about the small player is that it was a bad advertisement for the Pro.

I got my Sound Professionals velour pads from Massdrop two days ago. I've used them a little so far, but I liked them. My phones got much more comfortable. With the original pads, ears would went warm and sweaty after less than an hour. With the velour pads, I feel I can wear them for hours, but...

I have received it last Friday.   Some points so far:   The 16Gb memory Cyberdrive added as a stretch goal is not internal memory, but just a cheap card. A communication failure, among others. The player has a noticeable background noise, that can get annoying with more sensitive phones...

Yeah... just a box... like the other pictures so far... and, as they say: "The pictures are NOT final prototype". And this box is scheduled to be delivered in the end of this month.   Not a single word about the specifications doubts.

Sorry to the light-minded around here, but I don't think it is acceptable to say that Cyberdrive can have a free ride on the backer's money. They have promised a hi-res high quality music player. Their project looked serious and rather mature at first (just watch their campaign video), but after...

  From the chat:  

  I beg to strongly differ.   In one of their last IRC chats, Cyberdrive has announced they could lower the impedance to 2 ohm. On that occasion, they had explicitly consulted the backers if we would accept that solution.   It is a bad sign that this issue has come back to comments. I am...

  Still a communication failure by them, in my book. Crowdfunding campaigners should be even more detailed and clear about the products they intend to make, for the simple reason these still don't exist. Cyberdrive seemed so open and available, doing IRC chats and so on, and nevertheless this...

  Wow... Does it mean we'll be getting a review by the next hours?

Just found this video, apparently in Chinese. Couldn't get a word out of it, but at least it shows a bit from the Seiun Player (not the Pros) in action.

  What makes me believe in this is that their own earphones ("Impact Dura") have an impedance output of 16 Ohms. If anything, they will make sure their players sound good with them.

  The log.

        I'd appreciate some opinions from the knowledgeable people here.   As known, the Seiun Pro (X) players are spec'ed as 49mw @ 32ohm.   I have but a thin grasp on these technical concepts, and so far my googling has not helped me a lot.   As a reference, I have an Audio...

Quote: Originally Posted by cerbie WavPack is even better, IIRC, but has IP issues surrounding it. What kind of IP issues?

Quote: Originally Posted by Wodgy There are roughly three people on various forums who've reported skipping with VBR MP3s. I tend to think those posters are just trolls, because the problem has never been reproduced in a public demonstration. No one on Head-Fi has ever claimed to have...

Quote: Originally Posted by acoustiphile I have a general question, Will the zm accept and play anything above a bitrate of 320kbps? Definitely no. In strict MPEG-1 Layer 3, the frame bitrate goes up 320kbps. It is only possible to use more than this on freeformat MP3, that...

I see I agree (and disagree) with a lot of points here: 1. Lossless compression is quite exagerated on portables. Before using it, it is worth testing higher bitrates on lossy files: you get more quality than the usual 128kbps and save more space than with lossless. 2. If lossless is...

What I'm really still waiting is for a HE/LC-AAC player; not for PocketPC, to be honest, but for PalmOS. It could even look like Windows Media Player ou RealPlayer, since it could play MP3, Vorbis and AAC. Thinking twice, it'd have to play Musepack as well for this appearance.

Quote: Originally Posted by =w= I guess I'll reincode my .WMA files to .flac! People must be kidding about transcoding lossy to lossless.

Quote: Originally Posted by Stephonovich Faelix, have you tried using Gorf's GT3Bx tuned Ogg encoders? (GT3B2 is the newest) You'd be suprised how good -q0 sounds for the filesize. Wow... it sounds surprising to me, because I've always heard that GT3b2 was intended for qualities...

Now I have only a Palm Tungsten T3 to listen to digital music, besides a discman. I intend to get a MP3 Player some time, who knows... I have ripped CD's to two formats: my hi-fi is Lame --aps MP3, and my lo-fi is, I really mean it, Ogg Vorbis Aotuv -q2 (great for getting a SD card full of music).

Thanks a lot for the answers! I've just bought a Koss PortaPro, and, although I still don't have a Slimx, the phone sounds wonderfully on my Philips discman, that has low sound output.

Thanks for suggestions , although I'd appreciate other opinions. The Koss PortaPro is the easiest to get in the place where I live. Any other model would be harder to order, so I'm interested to know if it is a good choice or no.

Hi, I'd like to know from some people what they think of the combination iRiver SlimX and the Koss PortaPro. I want them very much, and I intend to purchase them until the end of this year. I'd also appreciate any suggestions, specially about alternative headphones to go with the SlimX...