need mp3 player for snowboarding

[bpm2000]

Im looking to get a player of some sort for the upcoming snowboarding season, and Im sorta confused and mixed on what to get. Im either thinking of the Rio volt SP250, some sort of HD or flash mp3 player, or mayyyyyyyybe a MD player. My current Cd player only has 3 measley seconds of anti-skip and skips more than my cd player before that which did not have any anti skip at all. I want to move up into mp3 for the capacity reason, but need something that has adequet skip protection for boarding.
Who here has the sp250, and how is its skip protection? It says 8 minutes, but im not exactly sure how that would work, i hear things about how the cd spins up and stops playing and will skip again as it spins up, etc..
Flash mp3 players apparently wont skip due to no moving parts, but are much more expensive in terms of capacity. They are however smaller and more compact.
HD players? How does skip protection work on these? They seem really expensive and would probably be out of my pricerange anyways.
MD players, dont have much experience with them, but lack of capacity seems to be a problem, they do skip, and the few ive handled seem to be pretty fragil.

What would you do, and share your active experiences with me

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thanks

 

[neil]

What kinda phones do you use for snowboarding? Never thought of playing music while boarding -- now that sounds cool.. kinda of like an action movie soundtrack.

 

[gorgon_123]

Just a heads up about certain laws:

In Quebec (I dunno about out west) it is illegal to snowboard/ski with headphones on. Obviously there aren't any cops patrolling ski hills, but a friend of mine did get his ski pass clipped a few years ago... he was also warned that had he gotten into an accident and hurt someone while wearning his phones his "victim" would win a lawsuit against him.....

be careful

 

[bpm2000]

Hood/Baker/stevens etc.. oregon/washington area..
not illegal as far as i know, definitely enough people doing it, perhaps they changed it up.. better check them laws.

can anyone throw in their 2 cents about the durability/skip protection of their units? (md, mp3, cd, etc...)

As far as what to wear, i see earbuds, "street styles", and GASP v700dj's are pretty common sites for me.

 

[coolvij]

Go for KSC-35, IMO - they WILL NOT fall off.

And, to answer your original question - my MD, with LP2 recording (more than enough for snowboarding

), the skip protection is at 80 sec. - and it's an MD. So.......that's like 8,000 seconds skip protection compared to a CD player.

I had an RCA Lyra for a while before my dad, well, took it.

NEVER skipped - decent sound quality for mp3, tho HIGH noise floor with low-imp. cans (>75 dB S/N ratio!).

Lyra2 should work well for you - unless you want several CDs worth of music at your disposal; if that's the case, go MD, since 3 LP2 MDs could fit in your pockets (assumin you have at least 2) with the MD, AND have 6+ Cds of music.....

 

[MacDEF]

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can anyone throw in their 2 cents about the durability/skip protection of their units? (md, mp3, cd, etc...)

The best possible skip protection would be from a solid-state MP3 player -- however, you won't get much music on one, even with a large memory card.

Next best is MD -- 40 seconds at normal speed, 80 at LP2, 160 at LP4 (plus MD is more skip resistant than CD to begin with).

Finally, CD and CD-based MP3 is the worst.

I would never use a hard drive-based MP3 player while snowboarding.

 

[rickcr42]

If you have a Radio Shack Nearby you might want to look into last years Lyra player.Discontinued and reduced to $99 last check,will go lower eventually as it sits ,all the way down to original dealer cost.Some stores have a good quantity left so a wait and see might work.

 

[coolvij]

99 bux! Wow.....that's a GREAT price - and with something like the medium imp. KSC-35, the background hiss of the fairly crappy amp components won't be so obvious!

 

[bpm2000]

Yea, solid state mp3 players arn't lookin too attractive, they seem pretty expensive for their capacity, and expanding it is really expensive.
As for MD, I am getting more interested in those than I was before. One feature that I really need on it if I was to get one is MDLP. Is there some place I can get a list of all the MD players with MDLP on it? The MZ-R700 looks nice but I'm not sure if I am missing something on it, and it still isn't that cheap. What is the Sharp equivalent of the R700?

 

[fiddler]

Well, the MZ-R700 sounds like a good choice... And in your case, MDLP _is_ a necessity, because 40 seconds anti-shock wouldn't be enough for snowboarding (my non-MDLP MZ-R70 skips even when I walk fast).
You should also consider the MZ-R500 and the Sharp MT-99 or MT-88.

Of course, solid-state MP3 is the only skip-proof option out there...

 

[MacDEF]

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Is there some place I can get a list of all the MD players with MDLP on it?

http://www.minidisc.org/

 

[rickcr42]

solid state MP3 is really the only choice for totally skip free operation,anyone that happens to own the Lyra player needs to check this out and sign up
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rca-lyra-mp3

 

[coolvij]

Cool, rick - looks like some fun stuff.......

I've been thinkin of bringing my Lyra back from the dead......the question is.....for what purpouse?

I would prolly use it to sample CDs - dload songs, sample, then buy.........yea.......I need my ("dad's") Lyra.......

Toys, Toys, Toys.....

 

[rickcr42]

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I've been thinkin of bringing my Lyra back from the dead......the question is.....for what purpouse?

Just might be a good excuse to get into some action sports.I use mine mountain biking ,if I were a younger man it would be skateboarding and/or snowboarding.But any sport that has explosive movements benefits from "skip free music"

As said above , kinda like having your own soundtrack for the action sequences of your life.

 

[bpm2000]

It seems like the best choice to go would be either a solid state mp3 player or a MDLP capable MD player. I like the sound of the mdlp minidisc players, I like the md players size, looks, features. I actually wanted to get a mp3/cd player but that wasn't going to work out very well, and the md player would probably be similar to that compared to a mp3 player. The solid state players just dont have the memory in the pricerange I am look at (200 and below), so it looks like some md players at the sony r700dcp level is the way I'm probably headed. Can anyone recommend some alternatives in the same level as the Sony R700? I hear Sharp is a pretty good md company, but I'm not sure about the units from companies like Aiwa and Kenwood, etc..