One major difference between Tera and Alien is that Tera only accept Wav file format but Alien accepts both Wav and Flac. I just wonder why Tera only accept Wav but not Flac since both are lossless file format and often FLAC is superior to LPCM (WAV) in almost all aspects. Is there any sound quality difference between Wav and Flac?
Simplicity is always better. They say the WAV format is better than others, is closer to the original source.Also WAV files are larger than FLAC but that's not a problem with the Tera Player.I am using 128 SDXC in mine.
Charles when he made it wanted to have a simple as possible design and music capabilities, that's why the Tera playes only WAV,also there was no room on the internal chip as he had to create his own programming language, to achieve what have been achieved in the sound department.
So playing only one type of file no other decoding is needed, the sound is better, battery life is better..
Hope you will manage to hear one for yourself and tell us what you think.