[jay sun]

I purchased a sony NWZ-A818 yesterday and shiped it up to Jersey for my father's b-day. I was going to get an iaudio-7 for myself because of the diversity of file formats it uses. I decided against the cowon because the swing touch will not be practical for the environment I will be using the player in. So I opted for the Sony.

My question is this. All my files are flac or ogg on my pc. What will be the best format to convert to and using what program?

Thanks in advance for all the help.
PS I am using shure ec3's as my first iems. I feel like they are no more then an eighty dollar pair of ear plugs. Every time the cord brushes against my clothing it sounds like a stethoscope. So annoying. Is this the case with all iems?

 

[jay sun]

i got the answer with a google search.
took me to a head-fi thread from the past that answered my question about file format. vbr mp3
now the only question is what to do with my shures

 

[darkninja67]

I just got my A818 today and have been impressed. They work extremely well with my ER4Ps. The build quality is most impressive. Good luck with your Sony.

EDIT: I am using MP3 320kbps for ripped cds and it sounds very good

 

[TonySunshine]

The "submarine" effect is called microphonics, and is common with nearly all IEMs. The best way to deal with it is to wear the shures around your ear like in the manual. check out this thread to see how it looks like
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f38/ne...utions-275283/

 

[Inks]

mp3 lame v0.

The player also supports wav lossless, but that's an overkill on the memory imo.

 

[chongy5]

LAME V0 or V2 switches, depending on how much you want to trade-off quality (referring more to the -V2 switch).

You can also play with aac if you want, but I don't have much experience with that so I can't personally recommend anything.

 

[sinner6]

Also embed your album art to the tag and never worry about it again.

 

[sanity8me]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinner6 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Also embed your album art to the tag and never worry about it again.

what exactly is the best/easiest way of doing this? i have a j.river media center and not sure if i'm doing it right cause the album art isn't showing up in my A818

 

[sinner6]

Personally, I use MediaMonkey and must say it helped me tag my library of 70GB with relative ease. Let me know if you get stuck with it.