The Altmann Tera Player - Thread

Jul 30, 2014 at 12:03 PM Post #106 of 2,899
Thanks for the heads up... I think... I have started to think about selling my old iems and earbuds to see if I can raise enough cash... :-)
Certainly the best I've heard (not tried the ref1s yet). Had the Tera player for over 18 months now. One of my best audio purchases.

Tera is unique.
 
Aug 3, 2014 at 9:46 AM Post #108 of 2,899
Aug 10, 2014 at 5:55 AM Post #109 of 2,899
Hi, partly because of you crazy guys, I have decided to take the plunge and but this Tera (crazy me...). I have had flashes of its grandeur even with the supposedly not great matching Togo! 334, but I have one annoying issue:

On my 128Gb SD Card (from Komputer Bay), it can read all of the songs, no problem. Unfortunately it would play only the first 30 sec or so of each song (or maybe is it a percentage as the length of the... extract seems different for each song that I've listened to). Is it a problem coming from the SD Card or is it related to the Tera? I will try to get my hands on a more reasonably sized SD Card as soon as I can, but I'd like to know if any of you Tera holders have ever encountered the issue, and of course how it was solved!

Anyway, I'm glad I've finally put my hands on it, it reminds me of the older time, and it's all about music, no fashion, no fancy, only raw and desirable music (at the expanse of our wallets and GUI).

Thanks
 
Aug 10, 2014 at 9:55 AM Post #111 of 2,899
Hi, thanks for the greeting. Actually I bought the cheapest card I could find... 42€ which is about the lowest you can get in France. I may have to try being a little bit less cheap on the next card, and also maybe target a smaller one.
 
Aug 10, 2014 at 10:46 AM Post #112 of 2,899
On my 128Gb SD Card (from Komputer Bay), it can read all of the songs, no problem. Unfortunately it would play only the first 30 sec or so of each song (or maybe is it a percentage as the length of the... extract seems different for each song that I've listened to). Is it a problem coming from the SD Card or is it related to the Tera?

 
Decline...
 
#1 RULE Regarding ALL Memory Cards:  Always test them right after you buy them, no excuses !!
 
Ideally you should buy only from vendors (incl. EBay) that will refund if the card is defective...tranlation - FAKE.
 
THE Best (Free) Card Test App:  H2WTEST
 
Any questions?
 
Aug 10, 2014 at 12:57 PM Post #113 of 2,899
Hi, partly because of you crazy guys, I have decided to take the plunge and but this Tera (crazy me...). I have had flashes of its grandeur even with the supposedly not great matching Togo! 334, but I have one annoying issue:

On my 128Gb SD Card (from Komputer Bay), it can read all of the songs, no problem. Unfortunately it would play only the first 30 sec or so of each song (or maybe is it a percentage as the length of the... extract seems different for each song that I've listened to). Is it a problem coming from the SD Card or is it related to the Tera? I will try to get my hands on a more reasonably sized SD Card as soon as I can, but I'd like to know if any of you Tera holders have ever encountered the issue, and of course how it was solved!

Anyway, I'm glad I've finally put my hands on it, it reminds me of the older time, and it's all about music, no fashion, no fancy, only raw and desirable music (at the expanse of our wallets and GUI).

Thanks

 
Hi, what you need to do is reformat your card to FAT32. Doing so will wipe the card clean of all your music so make sure you put your files somewhere where you can move them back onto the card after you reformat it.
 
Here are instructions on how to do so for both Windows and Mac:
 
http://www.wikihow.com/Format-an-SD-Card
 
Don't worry, I had a similar issue with my 8G card at first. The problems were all sorted out when I reformatted my card. I've played a 128G card on my Tera with no issues. Good luck and welcome to the wonderful world of Tera heaven. :)
 
Aug 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM Post #114 of 2,899
If you don't mind me asking how much did you pay for your Tera Player?
Is it a 2014 model with new algorithm programme and more RAM?
In theory the light should blink more rarely when you play music for new model right? Get yourself some Korta Koss headphones and enjoy great quality music.
 
Aug 10, 2014 at 7:21 PM Post #115 of 2,899
Ok, thanks for your answers, will try all of that. In order:

-Burtomr: I bought it from Amazon.fr marketplace, so should be no problem getting a refund. I'm sure it's legit though only the quality not being top notch, the size was 118Gb after formatting it to fat32 and I've fed it with 50Gb already. Anyway, I reckon I haven't tried to actually open a file from it while on my computer, your test will be worth be done as soon as I can, I'm on vacations right now.

- Teragirl: as said above, the card was already formatted to fat32, but I guess it's still worth getting back from scratch. I also wanted to remove all the files and add them one by one to test.

- Musicday: it's a used one from early 2013. Got it for 820€ but I was able to pick it up directly in Indonesia. Add in all the paypal and shipping fees, You may get closer to 900€ in the end.

Thanks everybody! Let the music begin!
 
Aug 18, 2014 at 2:32 PM Post #117 of 2,899
Spoke to Charles, very nice clever guy.
When my Tera is due for a battery replacement he will update the new random algorithm programme also.Until then I enjoy it very much.
Cheers,
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On the site is says Charles did the battery measuremnet with a six year old battery, if my Tera makes it to that age I think the buttons will be worn through!
 
Aug 19, 2014 at 2:10 AM Post #118 of 2,899
And problem solved for the songs being cut. Apparently the Tera didn't like the way I massively converted 150Go of flac to wav at once. I'll have to do it all again step by step...
Thanks for your contributions!
 
Aug 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM Post #120 of 2,899
Spoke to Charles, very nice clever guy.
When my Tera is due for a battery replacement he will update the new random algorithm programme also.Until then I enjoy it very much.
Cheers, :)


I returned my Tera-Player to Charles for him to address the loose headphone jacks. He updated them to the current production version which incorporates rubber thingys which keep the connections tight. He also updated the Random play algorithm and buffer, all at no charge.
 

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