Iaudio M5

[Whitebread]

I'm thinking of getting htis player. Its teh only plyaer on the market that has a 60gig HDD, other than the Ipod (as far as I know).
I've been out of hte portable ring for a while, so, how does this player sound? Can it drive headphones well? Hows the feature set? Is it worth the 375 newegg is selling it for?

 

[Kasp3r]

Umm the Iaudio x5 has a 60 gig harddrive. And its alot better then a m5 imho. I think its a little more but has more features, and the screen in on the player.

Im thinking about getting a x5L, 35 battery of life, but only 30 gigs. But thats plenty for me.

 

[Kasp3r]

Im just showing you the x5 60 gig player. I dont know if this is the cheapest one or not.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...&s=electronics

And this is the X5L if you rather get this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...&s=electronics

 

[Whitebread]

That was a typo, I meant to say X5, not M5.

And, I need ot have a 60 gig version. I have a collection of FLAC songs at low compression adn it takes up quite a bit of space.

 

[Kasp3r]

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Originally Posted by Whitebread That was a typo, I meant to say X5, not M5. And, I need ot have a 60 gig version. I have a collection of FLAC songs at low compression adn it takes up quite a bit of space.

ah ok..well most people say that x5 sound better then a ipod, but i dont know really. I know x5 have features like EQ settings that will alow you to fine tune what you like. Im sure any mp3 player sounds really good with a nice setup. How many songs do you have, since they are all FLAC?

 

[Whitebread]

The total collection is nearly 53 gigs/~4000 songs, but thats only because I set the encoder to leve 0. I'm going to redo my collection at level 8 when I get teh chance. I figure that will more than quater the size of my collection. I was unaware that the different levels are of the same quality, but I guess thats my fault seeing as its a lossless codec............duh

 

[macmacox]

when you re-compress your flac's don't go over level 2 because according to the instruction manual that's the highest flac compression it supports (same as my u3) I guess it takes a LOT of processing power to decompress level 8 flac

funny thing the mini players they sell (iAudio6 and U3) have higher power output than the x5 how's that work?

 

[Whitebread]

I read a review that said that the player could handle everything but level 8, which was being worked on in Firmware. In anycase, I'm pretty sure that rockbox can handle the higher flac level.

 

[Whitebread]

I just encoded a song using level 8 FLAC. The song is no smaller than a level 0 and the CPU utilization is no higher than when I play a level 0 song.