MP3 music at 64k is unlistenable to me. It sounds glitchy and warbly. 128 is better but still some annoying artifacts. 192 sounds basicly good, I don't really notice artifacts, but it seems "flat" (flat as in lack of depth, not pitch). 256 and higher starts adding back most of the depth to the...

I lost interest in comparison listening for a while, but I recently came back to the 2 players still loaded with music. I started listening on speakers and I'm surprised at what a clear difference I hear between the ogg vorbis 8 encoding and flac. No contest. [The clarity of the speakers has...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bandeira --Possibily double stacking the buffers with the correct R11s - For me to use new buffers without ruining my current ones, the adaptor I should get is the regular 970601(the one without pinout change), right? Anything wrong I am planning to do...

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Quote: Originally Posted by krmathis Nice first post! It seems like I have missed all those am*3 and hif*man advertisements, cause I have no idea what you talk about. But trolling seems to be somewhat normal around here, and some times I can not refrain from feeding them...

Quote: Originally Posted by clarinetman I can't say I've heard the AMP3, so I'm not going to vote, as much as I love my S9. However, I think at this point it's all reached a sort of deadlock. The OP should do what was done in the headphone brand elimination game thread and reduce all...

If you want to start with a cmoy, I really recommend the BB cmoy JDS Labs, although you'll learn more doing one according to the tangentsoft directions. I'm not keen on the idea of a A47 as a first project, there are pitfalls and it's not well documented (compared to other projects being...

I'm with the OP. I don't see the reason for a touch screen on a music player. Or even on a video playback device. I see why it would be good for web surfing or game play on a hand held, but I do very little of that stuff. The other thing I don't like about touch screens is they always seem...

Quote: Originally Posted by ericj There's only one reason that scrolling through long lists on the clip is slow: Because they didn't bother to add the 'go faster' switch. How fast do you want it to scroll? (talking about the original clip here) I push and hold the down arrow and...

AMP3 33 HURT Cowon 93 Rio 11 Samsung 10 Sandisk 17 HEAL Love my Sansii!

I haven't done anything with the dock yet. I basicly haven't done any DIY over the summer.

Quote: Originally Posted by foreverfi Could the designer tell us why they need to lauch a new model? what unique feature dose he want to use to attract us? it is advanced in sound quality? or stylish appearance? or low price? Maybe i am interesting to get one, but i need to persuade my...

Quote: Originally Posted by jjmai How does the sound quality compare between Sansa Clip (Sandisk firmware) and Sansa C250 (or any C200 series) with Rockbox? Thanks I have a V1 C240 and V1 and V2 Clips. The C240 (w/ or w/o rockbox) isn't quite as good as a Clip but it's not a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Currawong EFT Home - World Center for EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) - Download the free manual. If the wafting in the first 20 or so pages is tiresome, skip to the basic method, learn it, try it on everything. YMMV, sometimes it has amazing results...

I suppose it's one of those rumors that people latch on to just because we really want it to be true. And it just makes sense for Sansa to make a new clip that's compatible with their slot music and slot radio cards.

Quote: Symphony No. 1 - 427 kbps Gold Rush - 1001 kbps Rambaldo!...Ah! M'aiutate! - 628 kbps Sunshine of Your Love - 818 kbps It's interesting that higher flac bitrates didn't predict which pieces you'd have trouble ABXing. That's not at all what I would have guessed. I am...

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik No they did not. Here's a vintage soda bottle: Please notice that it is 10 oz. Common sizes for soda bottles were 6 oz. to 12 oz. or so. Many of the vintage Coke bottles were 8 oz. So people drink more soda pop today, that doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by dallan Careful of the salt intake if family history includes high blood pressure. Severly restricting salt intake never did diddly squat for my blood pressure. (It used to be borderline high and creeping higher and family history of high BP.) But when...

Quote: Originally Posted by limpidglitch It is really just about not consuming more than what you combust. To do this while still get all those good vitamins and minerals your body needs to function, you have to to eat something else than just pizzas, burgers, beer and soda...

Quote: Originally Posted by virometal You can add portion size to that list. Americans eat just good old fashioned a-lot of food also. Thus for the obese, I would try to limit portion size first and foremost - easier said than done with factors considered such as low cost, availability...

Congratulations on completing your amp! I totally agree with Pars that gain of 11 is too high. 3 to 4 should be much less hissy.

Quote: Originally Posted by upstateguy Just compare the same track in 320mp3, WAV and FLAC and see what you think. I tried one song in flac, wav, ogg Q10, and lame V0. I do not hear any volume difference. Nor any other difference really (so far anyway)

Quote: Originally Posted by ljokerl If I am not mistaken, the V2 can be recognized by the packaging, which is reddish pink, as opposed to the more traditional sandisk packaging on the v1 clip, so you can tell what you've got before opening the package. My Version 2 8gig came in...

Quote: Originally Posted by ilney Well, you know what player has loseless beforehand. This isn't fair.. If they are shuffled fairly and look identical then you don't know which is which. Quote: Originally Posted by ilney Here's what I did: I loaded 10 tracks in...

Quote: Originally Posted by upstateguy I was suggesting a fresh WAV rip rather than a decompressed FLAC or OGG. Just compare the same track in 320mp3, WAV and FLAC and see what you think. Then if you really want to be depressed, compare what you just heard to the 320mp3, WAV and...