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Headphoneus Supremus
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Oooohh. How I wish I was there, too. I remember walking through Yong-San District (huge electronic-specific malls) and just zone out there for hours.
I would love to test out all the cowon, iriver and samsung players but I'm afraid price of admission is too high for me right now. If I were you, I'd pick up a stello DA100 or HP100 since the won is weak and you don't have to pay the humongous shipping charges. You'd easily save about $200 compared to getting it in the States.
| Originally Posted by deadie /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for the continued feedback, and thanks to Trungkien for his experience with the DAC section. Wow, that Topaz price is incredible - but most of the delta is likely due to the won weakness against the Yen. In fact, a co-worker of mine said that Apple Korea increased all their prices here by 30% yesterday. So for instance, the 120GB Classic was $200 pre-increase, and the 32GB iTouch was $320. I haven't visited the Apple store again yet to confirm the price boost, but if so, man what bad timing. Otherwise, in other electronics stores here I find many Cowon, iRiver, and Samsung Yepp PMPs - sexy little things with touch screens and some with finger-flip functions. But they're only 8-16GB, which is nowhere capacious enough for FLAC and/or video files... Lastly, Trung, don't feel so bad about buying the ruby for $230. Remember, I had to spend $1,000 to get here. 
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Oooohh. How I wish I was there, too. I remember walking through Yong-San District (huge electronic-specific malls) and just zone out there for hours.
I would love to test out all the cowon, iriver and samsung players but I'm afraid price of admission is too high for me right now. If I were you, I'd pick up a stello DA100 or HP100 since the won is weak and you don't have to pay the humongous shipping charges. You'd easily save about $200 compared to getting it in the States.
