[KrooLism]

If it's been a while since I've been opinionated on head-fi, it's definitely been a looong while since asking for the professional advice of the head-fi massive.

I'm in the market for a new PMP.

Last three contenders for me is the Q5W, Cowon A3 or the Archos 704.

Top three in terms of importance for me is:
Supports FLAC
Digital out
Long battery life

If anyone owns any of the above three models (or can suggest something else) - I'm all ears (so to speak). I would probably read your post rather than use my ears to try and hear it. OK, I'll shut up now.

 

[Qosmio]

I choose A3 because it's support all common encoded and comes 10EQ perhaps it'll be wide soundstage looks like itunes maybe i really curious too with A3 actually,and i think Q5 won't support Flac btw

 

[KrooLism]

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Originally Posted by Qosmio /img/forum/go_quote.gif I choose A3 because it's support all common encoded and comes 10EQ perhaps it'll be wide soundstage looks like itunes maybe i really curious too with A3 actually,and i think Q5 won't support Flac btw

The only reason I would choose the Q5 is the bigger screen. I'm sure the Q5 supports flac. But yea - the cool thing is the A3 can record in flac. That's sweet.

 

[Qosmio]

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Originally Posted by KrooLism /img/forum/go_quote.gif The only reason I would choose the Q5 is the bigger screen. I'm sure the Q5 supports flac. But yea - the cool thing is the A3 can record in flac. That's sweet.

Oops my bad yes it's support Flac the Q5,btw there is some people change the HDD to 100GB this is the link,hope it's useful to you

Changing the HDD of Cowon Q5W to increase capacity (with Pics) - COWON America Forums

 

[KrooLism]

Is there a battery upgrade you can do?

That would be sweet.

 

[abitdeef]

I don't know, my professional advice is pretty $$. I do lust after the Q5W though and I'm not to keen on joysticks so that rules the A3 out, and what was the other PMP?

 

[Musicboy]

iHP-120 for optical out--

 

[Nuwidol]

I have the Archos 704 & i'm happy with it.

All i use it for is watching movies though. Huge screen & although it supposedly only has 262k colours it looks great.

With the supported dock you have a digital out (Coax) but its cumbersome & the supported TV recording (although i've never tried or needed it) is supposedly buggy & poor at best.

I only opted for the 704 over other PMPs for the screen size & after auditioning it i was sold.