Quote: Originally Posted by yeeyy About the touch pad, I purposely buying the black color player to try out this. Every button works fine for me except the BACK button. I need to tap slightly above the back arrow silkscreen instead onto it, and I need to press it with my whole thumb and...

The battery life is quoted as 10 hours. Is this accurate or is it much less? Do you find that if you don't charge the player for a few days the battery looses a bar or two even though you haven't used it? I ask because this is what happens with players like the zen and Ipod which sleep for 24-48...

The archos Gmini xs200 has been out quite a while now. Can anyone who'se listened to it give some input on sound quality and how it compares to other players such as the Zen Micro?

Quote: Originally Posted by uncle b Is it maybe possible that the hard presses required for play and going back/forward are to help differentiate between just scrolling through a song and jumping forward/back to the next/previous song? The thought did cross my mind, but the...

Quote: Originally Posted by mmmpopfanatic Have you tried adjusting the sensitivity level for the touch pad? Most reviews I've read said it works best on high. Yes it's on high at the moment and I have the latest firmware. I'm really surprised at just how bad the back and play...

Am I the only one who's grappling with the zen's touch pad? The vertical scroll bar is fine but the play, menu and back buttons seem considerably less responsive! Sometimes it takes me a good ten seconds just to get from pause to play. Is my unit defective? I'm also getting rather annoyed by...

DON'T talk to me about sleeping with headphones! I used to sleep with my sony MDREX70's and all went fine until I bought a set of wireless Panasonic headphones...then all hell broke loose. I slept with the Panasonics and then I woke up, gasping for breath, to find the EX70's had coiled...

Zone Alarm can block to much and doesn't employ stateful packet inspection (meaning it just looks at where the data is coming from, not what it's saying). Sygate Personal Firewall is a very secure stateful packet inspection firewall which has worked well for me. As with most things the users...

Funilly enough I asked the same question barely yesterday, so for more on portable line-outs click here: http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...threadid=66938

www.blutin.com have good prices, price in Euro (as well as other currencies), and ship everywhere...they have little sub-depos scattered around the globe but most stuff is shipped directly from asia. They stock both the sony and the sharp earbuds. I have the sony 70's and am very happy with...

Ah-ha!!! Then Dane, maybe you can answer me one last question... I'm trying to establish a connection between sound quality and power usage to figure out an ideal output specification for a portable unit. The units are amps, and volts for power output which easily convert to mW and...

Quote: Originally posted by Dane The headphone output is designed to drive much tougher loads around 100 Ohms and also has a larger voltage swing (important for high impedance phones). Hi Dane...thanks for your excellent reply! Can you carify somethign for me. 100Kohms...

For Gym and Jogging HD player are out of the questions so, I River IFP 599t 1GB Flash Based Player (if you are ok with High Quality Mp3's - It will store 8.5 hours of music at 256kb/sec) Has Radio Check me on Playlists/Ordering Magnesium Case = Reliability Small No replaceable battery...

How does Ohm convert to Ampairs, if at all? I'm trying to establish a connection between sound quality and power usage to figure out an ideal output specification for a portable unit. The units are amps, and volts for power output, and mW and Ohms for headphone input (which convert into...

I noticed Sweet Spot's post wasn't getting any answers and because I have the same questions about line-outs in general I have posted a quote of it in the Amp section. The post can be found here http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...threadid=66938

I read this in the Portable Audio Section and it didn't seem to be getting any answers. I figured you guys might have a better idea of what a line out actually is (and what it is NOT) and how it should be implemented (curcuit-wise). Quote: Sweet Spot Said Man, all of this talk is...

Cd's are prone to scratching and being lent out to careless friends I recommend Buy the biggest, cheapest, fastest spinning Laptop HD (E.g. Toshiba 60gig MK6022GAX) you can land your hands on and purchase an external HD caddy for it (USB2/Firewire). Rip all your audio digitally to...

For what it's worth i'm of the opinion that you should store two copies of all your music on your PC. The first copy is a lossless encoding in something like the flac format. This essentially compressed wavs to roughly 2/3 their size but the sound is a digitally perfect copy of the original...

DFX is rubbish Enhancer is pretty good for adding some ambience http://www.i-adrian.home.ro/enhancer.htm Crossfeed Plugin (dsp_crossfeed.dll) is also good but very subtle (ATTACHED!). Ideally you have crossfeed running into enhancer and there was a thread about this in the Headphones...

I have a pair of Panasonic RP-RF910 and they have an undocumented dynamic hiss reduction feature. At roughly half volume the hiss is at a minimum and is barely audible. They have decent base but the top end of the treble is sloped out, probably in an attempt to further reduce his. However i find...

Anacondastan, you need to read up about the players and the technology. This is so you make a better informed decision and end up with a product which you won't regret buying in a year's time. First, if you want to burn (record) minidiscs you need a MiniDisc recorder. A player will only play...

Ah, thanks alot Earwax aust?!..let a post die? Have you no feelings at all?!

Quote: Eagle_driver said: US and European distributors mark up the price substantially over the price in Japan Actually sundragon said Quote: the price mentioned in my first post is the price sales in China They are obviously two very different nations. In fact...

Ok, Thanks for that. I really liked the look of the Nex because of it's support for flash, but you're right, it seems to have so many little problems that all the good points (sound, ease of transfer of music) are really overshadowed. This really leaves me hanging. It seems like my only...