[nc8000]

ugh... why? That is a bummer.

I don’t know of any player where the internal memory is not soldered to the motherboard.

 

[nanaholic]

I don’t know of any player where the internal memory is not soldered to the motherboard.

Venturecraft Valoq. The player reads and boots off a internal microsd card.

 

[nc8000]

Venturecraft Valoq. The player reads and boots off a internal microsd card.

Interesting, never heard about that one. According to the spec sheet though it has about 6GB of internal memory plus one microSD slot

 

[nanaholic]

Interesting, never heard about that one. According to the spec sheet though it has about 6GB of internal memory plus one microSD slot

Yep, there's an internal card slot which is only accessible when you open up the player, and an external card slot.

You can even get the Valoq officially upgraded with more internal memory by taking the player back to distributors and they will swap the internal card for a bigger one for a fee. Can't do it yourself though because Venturecraft did some thing to those cards, probably writing the firmware and boot sector somewhere or something like that.

 

[Giraku]

Didn't realize i was using BatteryCare ON, still at 90% charge, pretty impressive battery life

That's indeed impressive. You got a lucky unit.

 

[fiascogarcia]

I prefer to listen to the 1z with Direct Source, but I also like the Dynamic Normalizer function. Has anyone noticed a difference in sq between playing with Direct Source, vs turning off the other sound adjustment functions, flat lining the equalizer and just leaving the Dynamic Normalizer on? I'm still playing with these two options. Thanks for your opinions!

 

[gerelmx1986]

I prefer to listen to the 1z with Direct Source, but I also like the Dynamic Normalizer function. Has anyone noticed a difference in sq between playing with Direct Source, vs turning off the other sound adjustment functions, flat lining the equalizer and just leaving the Dynamic Normalizer on? I'm still playing with these two options. Thanks for your opinions!

I think source direct gives you the best sound, next best soun IMHO is DSEE HX + DC Phase lienarizer and next best SQ is just DSEE HX. The normalizer just compresses dynamic range to make tracks sound louder, not my like.

DIRECT gives you more warmth, more organic sound, on the other hand DSEE HX + dc phase lienarizer gives you a more expanded sound, mor eveloping, more details, tracks sound with more details (at the expense of high battery consuption)

 

[Giraku]

I prefer to listen to the 1z with Direct Source, but I also like the Dynamic Normalizer function. Has anyone noticed a difference in sq between playing with Direct Source, vs turning off the other sound adjustment functions, flat lining the equalizer and just leaving the Dynamic Normalizer on? I'm still playing with these two options. Thanks for your opinions!

Any post-hoc processing affects sound quality. These features (e.g. normalizer, EQ, even DSEE HX) add additional components in signal processing. Usually SQ gets deteriorated to a certain degree, or at least it becomes something different from the original recording. Especially, the normalizer directly manipulate the dynamic range so that loud music gets compressed digitally. This is quite different from adjusting the amplitude gain in analogue domain. That's why I personally do not use any of these processing. Just my 2 cents.

 

[gerelmx1986]

Yikes! DSD downloads are expensive 22 euro per album on Channel classics, but well worth, all my three channel classics albums upgraded from CD FLAC to DSD64

I used to hate DSD, because i misinterpreted some people who said DSD was a lossy format/process... really the lossy part is only when you do DSD to PCM or visceversa, PCM to DSD. Now i love it, to have spent 64 euros for three "upgrades" hehe

 

[gerelmx1986]

@fiascogarcia Sound effects such as the Dynamic normalizer, DC phase linearizer, DSEE HX and EQ, don't work with DSD in native mode

 

[gerelmx1986]

Next time i will try drag and drop to my WM1A and see how much albums i can fit, mediago strangely reports 970MB of "other files", therefore wasted space

 

[gerelmx1986]

MusicBee download site is working again, I downloaded latest version of it.

Will give it a shot, i've had it before and was faster than Media Go at indexing.

Quite similar to Media Go, acceptes Folder monitoring (handy for changes), accepts ransfer to walkman, I last tried with ZX100 and its SD card. New version supposedly plays DSD up to DSD256. I onli have DSD64 up to now, there's no word on MQA support (i don't care as i don't have any MQA and don't plan to have a file on that format). Album interface is similar to iTunes 12


as i finish writing this post, it has already indexed 10k files out of 51911 tracks

EDIT >> it crashed when i was configuring it

EDIT #2 >> It plays DSD, in my case it gets downsampled to PCM 88.2KHz

 

[dougi555]

Any ideas for a pair of headphones to match with the player must be over ear, drives well no high gain 100 + setting and good isolation, cable inputs not a problem as I'll be modding them to 4.4 balanced whatever they are , let me know your thoughts.

With my newly acquired WM1A I'm using Sony's own MDR-Z1R's, sublime......!

 

[gerelmx1986]

Music Bee is a nice alternative to Media go and *cough* Music Center *cough*

Runs fast, plays DSD, depending on your setup can do it natively or downsampled to PCM, the important part is that i handles DSD (for me all are 2.8224Mhz, so sorry for that yo guys who have higher rate DSDs)
Later will test walkman transfer (my new DSD upgrades )


EDIT >> Walkman & Walkman Micro SD transfer success

 

[gerelmx1986]