[faichiu]

I am not sure if you guys like this player.
I found it is pretty good on sound. Very smooth sound I would say.
I bought one from ebay and the battery is degraded.
Since I need to open it up to change the battery,
I deceide to change it to compact flash also.

Parts you need:
1) screw driver

2) 1.8 to CF adapter
New CF To 2.5" IDE 44Pins (Male) Adapter--Free S & H - eBay (item 110158092211 end time May-06-08 02:53:18 PDT)

3) CF card
Newegg.com - A-DATA 32GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model SPEEDY CF 32G - Flash Memory

4) Battery if you need (You need to desolder and then solder two wires)
Fit MP3 Rio Karma (20GB) battery (2200 mAh) - eBay (item 360043797810 end time Apr-23-08 18:58:13 PDT)


How to open up Karma:
Schenk 'n' Karma

 

[Csidinim]

awesome. can you make a list of parts required for this setup and where you obtained them?

 

[ShinyFalcon]

You will need an adapter that basically converts the Compact Flash to a hard drive the Karma uses. These can be found on eBay. That's basically it, I believe. If the Karma uses weird screws, you need a screwdriver that opens up the screws too.

I will be modding my H120 with the CF mod as well, and since I'm out of money, I can't really do anything until I get a job for the funds unfortunately.

 

[PeterDLai]

I've always wanted a Rio Karma, but I held off years ago waiting for the next Rio player to come out. When Rio closed down, Trekstor sort of picked up where they left off, but the Vibez just does not appeal to me as much.

Maybe I should pick up a Rio Karma from eBay or something. I remember years ago when I put my hands around a MODEL of one at a Circuit City and was in love.

Crossfading, native FLAC/OGG support, the glowing blue dock, the good sound quality, ooh baby!

 

[ShinyFalcon]

I once held a Karma, but that was way before I discovered Head-fi. I recall my friend saying that her Karma died, and since I discovered Head-fi, I kept telling myself to tell her to take care of the Karma. I wonder if she still has the Karma...

 

[shigzeo]

yeah i had a mate with one. it had some sort of hd bug, i wish he still had it = great way to resurrect it. it was ahead of its time at the time. nice to see it relive its glory in big disk!

 

[faichiu]

by the way, this player has amazing EQ. You can boost very low frequency with no distortion. Sweet!

Now I can put 32gb flac on it. So Cool!!

 

[ShinyFalcon]

How's the transfer speed with the A-Data CF?

 

[faichiu]

writing files is kind of slow. same speed like the small flash player.
But Boot up and shutdown speed is faster than hard disk.

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Originally Posted by ShinyFalcon /img/forum/go_quote.gif How's the transfer speed with the A-Data CF?

 

[lumanogin]

Amazing. Thanks for this info. I always thought the prices people asked for these flash modded karma's was ridiculous. Glad to see it's that simple.