I'm on holiday at the moment, in Portugal, and I brought my Sony NWZ-A15 with me (paired with recently-acquired Soundmagic E50s). I was hoping to get a lot of use out of it over the week I would be here.
Welp. So much for that.
Last night, in my sleep, I apparently knocked the thing off my bed with enough force to dent it (how?!). There's a huge dent in the left-facing side of the diamond control pad, which has rendered that part of the pad inoperable. I could deal with that, but it gets worse: the thing won't turn on. At all.
I knew something was wrong when I looked at the screen and saw that the four squares in the bottom-right corner of the screen - the ones that usually show up after a library update - were there when they shouldn't have been. They weren't moving either. So the first thing I do is I grab a hair-pin and boop the reset hole. It switches it off just fine, but now it won't respond to anything at all. Crap.
[Ned Flanders voice]I'M A MUR-DIDDLY-URDERER!!![/Ned Flanders voice]
I took the 128gig microSD card out, and now what we have here is a €179 paperweight that I bought the day I was due to fly out to Amsterdam, May 31st 2016. So it lasted me a grand total of not even six weeks. I really don't need to deal with this right now, to say the least.
What would Head-Fi recommend as an alternative, at a similar price point (up to €200), with similar capacity options (128gb microSD or better), decent battery life and support for lossless audio? I don't want to just replace this thing because what I did shouldn't have been enough to kill it and I have my doubts about build quality. Thanks a lot in advance - doesn't matter what you guys recommend me because HF is full of people who know their **** and make me look like an amateur when it comes to audio. Have at it
Welp. So much for that.
Last night, in my sleep, I apparently knocked the thing off my bed with enough force to dent it (how?!). There's a huge dent in the left-facing side of the diamond control pad, which has rendered that part of the pad inoperable. I could deal with that, but it gets worse: the thing won't turn on. At all.
I knew something was wrong when I looked at the screen and saw that the four squares in the bottom-right corner of the screen - the ones that usually show up after a library update - were there when they shouldn't have been. They weren't moving either. So the first thing I do is I grab a hair-pin and boop the reset hole. It switches it off just fine, but now it won't respond to anything at all. Crap.
[Ned Flanders voice]I'M A MUR-DIDDLY-URDERER!!![/Ned Flanders voice]
I took the 128gig microSD card out, and now what we have here is a €179 paperweight that I bought the day I was due to fly out to Amsterdam, May 31st 2016. So it lasted me a grand total of not even six weeks. I really don't need to deal with this right now, to say the least.
What would Head-Fi recommend as an alternative, at a similar price point (up to €200), with similar capacity options (128gb microSD or better), decent battery life and support for lossless audio? I don't want to just replace this thing because what I did shouldn't have been enough to kill it and I have my doubts about build quality. Thanks a lot in advance - doesn't matter what you guys recommend me because HF is full of people who know their **** and make me look like an amateur when it comes to audio. Have at it
