austonia
Headphoneus Supremus
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So the Radeon 9800 card I ordered at Amazon isn't going to come. I had this leftover gift certificate from Christmas, and I must admit it's burning a hole in my pocket. I have a few MP3 players, right, so I decided to buy something else for a change. I tried anyway, but fate is against me. Amazon canceled my order, saying they can't seem to find any Radeon 9800's. None... thier suppliers have no more supply. Funny, it was IN STOCK when I ordered. Even more humorous, it's still in stock! Apparently it's just not in stock for ME. I believe what happened is that they checked my browsing statistics for Amazon and determined that I've looked at the MP3 players section over 2,000 times while only checking out Radeons a couple. This was good reason for them to downloaded my brain waves. They know I really wanted another MP3 player, and the voices tell me that's just how it's gonna be. Now, back to business. The most sensible thing to do is buy the cheapest-ever IHP-140... the one DAP that has forever eluded my grasp. Now, it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.
BUT. But... before I go and push the button, what are the bad things about the iHP-series? I should have been paying attention before, but instead of searching a jillion threads now, I was hoping some of the iHP owners would share thier thoughts. I know it kicks ass, it's totally sweet, screw iPod and all that, but what does it suck at? I'm sure there are some details they have yet to iron out... what? I heard many issues were fixed in the last firmware (1.40).
What I like:
1) Folder-view organization. All my other players use an ID3 tag database. ID3 tag libraries are great for my newer albums. But my old stuff from Napster, Usenet, etc... are missing a lot of tag information.. missing a lot of infomation in general. (Techno Trackzz #32b - Rob's House Mix.mp3?). Also, It would be nice to have this alternative for Compilation albums. I have all these compilation/mix albums with hundreds of artists I'm not familiar with, and if I add them to my existing DAPs, all those unknown artsits will clog up my current/known artist list.
2) Hey, cool remote, eh?
3) BLACK. I want to know the true power of The Dark Side!
4) battery life is ok
5) line out, optical output is unique
6) line in, optical input
7) Mic recording
8) OGG support
9) No one else in Kansas has one.
10) All kinds of geeky options. A nice alter-ego to my iPod.
What I don't like:
1) Controller isn't speed sensitive. Just an average josystick-like thing. Takes a long time to get through long lists.
2) It's been reported the line-output isn't really a line-output... at least not in the typical sense. Volume and DSP options affect line-output.
3) PRICE. Damn, practically iPodian.
4) WAV recordings drop some milliseconds here and there during disk writes... so it's no good as a bootlegger.
5) Remote degrades sound quality according to a friend of mine.
6) NO WHERE TO TRY BEFORE I BUY.
7) Amazon made the choice for me? What happend to Free Will?
8) EQ isn't much better than iPod. Bass and Treble. uhhhh Yeah..... what about that stuff in the middle?
9) It should have a built-in, dual-blade light saber, and when I plug into my car, it talks like Kit from Knight Rider and has turbo boost and all. Hell ya. That rules.
BUT. But... before I go and push the button, what are the bad things about the iHP-series? I should have been paying attention before, but instead of searching a jillion threads now, I was hoping some of the iHP owners would share thier thoughts. I know it kicks ass, it's totally sweet, screw iPod and all that, but what does it suck at? I'm sure there are some details they have yet to iron out... what? I heard many issues were fixed in the last firmware (1.40).
What I like:
1) Folder-view organization. All my other players use an ID3 tag database. ID3 tag libraries are great for my newer albums. But my old stuff from Napster, Usenet, etc... are missing a lot of tag information.. missing a lot of infomation in general. (Techno Trackzz #32b - Rob's House Mix.mp3?). Also, It would be nice to have this alternative for Compilation albums. I have all these compilation/mix albums with hundreds of artists I'm not familiar with, and if I add them to my existing DAPs, all those unknown artsits will clog up my current/known artist list.
2) Hey, cool remote, eh?
3) BLACK. I want to know the true power of The Dark Side!
4) battery life is ok
5) line out, optical output is unique
6) line in, optical input
7) Mic recording
8) OGG support
9) No one else in Kansas has one.
10) All kinds of geeky options. A nice alter-ego to my iPod.
What I don't like:
1) Controller isn't speed sensitive. Just an average josystick-like thing. Takes a long time to get through long lists.
2) It's been reported the line-output isn't really a line-output... at least not in the typical sense. Volume and DSP options affect line-output.
3) PRICE. Damn, practically iPodian.
4) WAV recordings drop some milliseconds here and there during disk writes... so it's no good as a bootlegger.
5) Remote degrades sound quality according to a friend of mine.
6) NO WHERE TO TRY BEFORE I BUY.
7) Amazon made the choice for me? What happend to Free Will?
8) EQ isn't much better than iPod. Bass and Treble. uhhhh Yeah..... what about that stuff in the middle?
9) It should have a built-in, dual-blade light saber, and when I plug into my car, it talks like Kit from Knight Rider and has turbo boost and all. Hell ya. That rules.