Narcosynthesis
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Hello,
I have been happily using my Sony HD1 for about four years now, until recently when it has started playing up, so time for a new player...
Looking online I can see two options I like, either sourcing a secondhand HD5 (the updated version of what I have, which has been discontinued for a fair while now) to get a similarly sized unit that I can use all my current music on directly (namely 256kbs atrac3+ format from sonicstage), or go for the option of buying a new player at the expense of having to rerecord all my music.
Looking at a new player it seems a fairly good bet to go for the Sony A808/818, only that at 8gb it is less than half the size of my HD1, so to get anywhere near as much music on it I would need to rerecord it at half the quality (so 128kbs in whichever format) or face losing half my music (which I would really rather not)
With that option I also get the choice of format - I would quite like to stick to sonicstage as it works well for me, so I can either rerecord in atrac again just at a lower bitrate, or go for mp3 or something else.
Any opinions or ideas on the different options? I know the new sony players have been getting pretty rave reviews, so it is mostly down to quality/space issues if I went for that option.
Also, Sony mention the 30 hour battery life as being with 132kbs atrac format music, how would switching to mp3 or similar affect this?
If it makes any difference, this will be used with a pair of sennheiser px200's running from the output jack, which has been more than capable with my HD1 so far.
I realise I have asked a few questions here, so any help would be greatly appreciated, and I do apologise if any of this has been covered before, I couldn't seem to find anything similar looking through past threads.
I have been happily using my Sony HD1 for about four years now, until recently when it has started playing up, so time for a new player...
Looking online I can see two options I like, either sourcing a secondhand HD5 (the updated version of what I have, which has been discontinued for a fair while now) to get a similarly sized unit that I can use all my current music on directly (namely 256kbs atrac3+ format from sonicstage), or go for the option of buying a new player at the expense of having to rerecord all my music.
Looking at a new player it seems a fairly good bet to go for the Sony A808/818, only that at 8gb it is less than half the size of my HD1, so to get anywhere near as much music on it I would need to rerecord it at half the quality (so 128kbs in whichever format) or face losing half my music (which I would really rather not)
With that option I also get the choice of format - I would quite like to stick to sonicstage as it works well for me, so I can either rerecord in atrac again just at a lower bitrate, or go for mp3 or something else.
Any opinions or ideas on the different options? I know the new sony players have been getting pretty rave reviews, so it is mostly down to quality/space issues if I went for that option.
Also, Sony mention the 30 hour battery life as being with 132kbs atrac format music, how would switching to mp3 or similar affect this?
If it makes any difference, this will be used with a pair of sennheiser px200's running from the output jack, which has been more than capable with my HD1 so far.
I realise I have asked a few questions here, so any help would be greatly appreciated, and I do apologise if any of this has been covered before, I couldn't seem to find anything similar looking through past threads.