High capacity player that plays FLAC

Feb 28, 2008 at 10:39 PM Post #16 of 81
If you guys don't know what lossess should sounds like, do me a favor, go to ebay and get a sony pcdp like D-33. It is relatively cheap around $30.

Even this cheap $30 dollar sony pcdp can beat all cowon's player playing flac.
 
Feb 28, 2008 at 11:40 PM Post #18 of 81
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If you guys don't know what lossess should sounds like, do me a favor, go to ebay and get a sony pcdp like D-33. It is relatively cheap around $30.

Even this cheap $30 dollar sony pcdp can beat all cowon's player playing flac.


I am really curious about what you would suggest then.
 
Feb 28, 2008 at 11:43 PM Post #19 of 81
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Good luck in your search....I have the D2 but it still isn't enough storage for my lossless collection...
I'm still waiting for Cowon to come out with an X5 successor.


I guess we just could not expect much from a reletively small, flash memory based, portable player. It is nice enough to have a SD slot.

Is there any hdd based player that plays FLAC and is reasonably sized?
 
Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM Post #20 of 81
How about the iAudio7 by Cowon. It is definitely an "audio-first" and now comes in 16GB flash memory. It supports FLAC too. The other chinese players that you have mentioned are good too but the user-inteface can be an issue sometimes (stress on the word "sometimes", no need to argue who has or has not had problems here
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) for teclast. Meizu is better and provides updates regularly. However, cowon trumps both companies in terms of capacity.

Good Luck!
 
Feb 29, 2008 at 3:21 AM Post #21 of 81
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A laptop with a digital-out would fall into the criteria you've listed, unless that's TOO massive
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No its all good. Certainly the way I think I will go. It is merely too bad that given a nice 160 GB drive, Apple or other companies can't throw in a digital output (and FLAC codec support). Apple could do this, they are merely stubborn. Even if they avoided the FLAC bit, digital output? Yes they could do this but they choose not to, despite the market for it, albeit small (hence Wadia and the permission they have from Apple to do it).
 
Feb 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM Post #23 of 81
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You could get a Pacemaker. 120Gb, FLAC support and a digital out... cost you a bit though!


Is this out yet? How is the sound quality?
 
Mar 1, 2008 at 4:41 AM Post #24 of 81
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Still, if no digital output on anything (not even the Q5?) then it won't be much use to me
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The Q5W has digital coax out. I run it into my headroom desktop portables DAC and it sounds very good. It does not sound as good as the optical out from my ASUS laptop with the same FLAC's. I do not know why this is the case.
 
Jul 3, 2008 at 11:34 PM Post #27 of 81
Hey guys,

I've been looking for something that does flac but is big enough for my entire collection - and I think I've found it: the Newman M8000+ with 250 gb storage. I'm not really sure about the quality/battery life/etc, and the different sites I've seen it on, don't all mention that it plays flac - but I imagine it does, as all of Newman's other players supports it.

Do a google on it. I think it may turn out to be pretty rockin'. Too bad that companies are migrating away from hd-based players, as hd's are really coming down in price, and increasing in capacity - in my opinion faster than flash memory.

Newman M8000+ TFT screen. 80GB - 250GB White / Black - VIDEO REVIEW
 
Apr 5, 2009 at 4:00 PM Post #28 of 81
The iRiver H100 & H300 series were great players, but unfortunately are discontinued. We're in a weird transition period where the flash players aren't quite up to snuff, and flash chips limited to 32GB. The iRiver E100 supports FLAC, but don't seem to have digital output. What's the point?

Does anyone have a list of FLAC players with digital outs?
 
Apr 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM Post #29 of 81
Okay I had a Cowon U3 2GB flash player. My first & recently deceased portable audio player. All my songs were encoded in FLAC at compression Level 2 & I used a Sennheiser PX100 Headphone. The sound was "crystal clear." No complaints from me here. Now i can't speak for the D2 or any other Cowon players. But i am getting a Cowon D2+ this week. It will be my second portable audio player ever. I just want it for music although it can do alot of other things like video, text, etc...I don't need.
 
Apr 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM Post #30 of 81
I am looking for the same thing, a high capacity flac player. I am interested in the cowon products, but for me no gapless playback is a dealbreaker.

Please someone, there must be an answer out there. Can the irivers do gapless? At least rockbox can, right?
 
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