H20Fidelity
Headphoneus Supremus
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I think for battery saving using the Samsung an E5 will get you out of trouble. (sorry, one too many coffees here tonight)
I think for battery saving using the Samsung an E5 will get you out of trouble. (sorry, one too many coffees here tonight)
I think for battery saving using the Samsung an E5 will get you out of trouble. (sorry, one too many coffees here tonight)
Well I am a Sony man when it comes to TV's and portable audio gear- players or recorders. I read a little about the Cowan and did not find enough positives to sway me away from my past experience with Sony products. Recently got the A series 16G walkman. I'm pretty happy with it. I might get the Z unit too. I might want FLAC for some situations: To be able to play a FLAC download without conversion, and for importing certain cd's. From previous comparisons I noticed On the E and A series walkmans, music from a cd loaded into itunes ACC and content transferred to walkman sounds better than mp3 downloads. I don't know what they do to them but I cant listen to MP3 downloads, so any music I download will be FLAC only.
Obviously I could'nt compare between FLAC and "Lossy" on the A unit because it wont play Flac natively. But playing off the computer using Sony's icluded Media GO software, which has the option to import my cd collection as FLAC, MP3, or AAC (MP4) at 320mps in its preferences box. I found the difference in sound quality between them is small, yet noticable, I preferred ACC 320 to MP3 320, but the FLAC was better I thought. The difference becomes greater depending on how much the recording/mastering is compressed to begin with. On those that already had a fairly high "loudness" level, FLAC was clearly superior. It was as if compressing the recording further with any lossy format pushed things over the edge, and the unpleasant character of such recordings becomes more pronounced, taking them from tolerable to not so tolerable, even at 320mps. On the other hand If the cd I imported was mastered at a reasonable level of compression, the difference is a closer call. Basically if the cd is already a high quality recording that is not over compressed, the AAC 320 is what I'll be using, it seems to be well enough especially for the space conservation it allows, for cd's that veer in any degree to loud n crunchy, I'll be importing with FLAC. That and having a unit that can play the FLAC file as is without converting to a much larger WAV file would be the advantages of FLAC and the Z unit for me.