[DigitalFreak]

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Do you have drop box? Provide me your info and I'll send you an invite. The issue is not when these files are in WAV form but in FLAC. Once blown up to WAV and then copied to the device they exhibit non of these issues.
 

That's rather weird, have you tried different FLAC compression settings or maybe stripping off all tags to see what happens?

 

[Magihyren]

How long does it normally take to fully recharge the player? And what do you guys recommend to the best way to recharge by, ie. usb to computer or usb to ac outlet. 

 

[Audio Addict]

How long does it normally take to fully recharge the player? And what do you guys recommend to the best way to recharge by, ie. usb to computer or usb to ac outlet. 

The instructions suggest 8 hours by the AC and that is what I did initially.

 

[lee730]

I use the old plug that was included from my Sflo2. It does the trick. I think via the USB port on the PC it will take significantly longer to charge.
 

 

[Magihyren]

When you guys charged it via ac charger, was it player just on the whole time?

 

[goodvibes]

yes, and you can use it while charging. Useful in the car.

 

[Audio Addict]

Today I finished converting roughly 90 to 100 Apple Lossless albums to 320k mp3 at the insane quality level according to the selection. In Lossless they took over 23 gigabyyte whereas now it is under 10.

I am listening right now using the Wooduo IEMs. I will have to say it is way better than I was expecting. The two do seem to go sonically together.

 

[lee730]

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Today I finished converting roughly 90 to 100 Apple Lossless albums to 320k mp3 at the insane quality level according to the selection. In Lossless they took over 23 gigabyte whereas now it is under 10.
I am listening right now using the Wooduo IEMs. I will have to say it is way better than I was expecting. The two do seem to go sonically together.

Are you keeping those lossless files or are you really getting rid of them? I am convert after hearing potential differences between tracks. While it may not be so apparent on all tracks there are those exceptions. Enough so where I just go for broke and try to acquire everything in lossless.

 

[Asiaplay]

@Audio Addict,
I am happy to hear that you are enjoying the sound quality so far (especially given all the effort you have put in transferring file formats)...
I just wanted to mention that for the Studio-V2 prior to a long burn-in time, I did enjoy the LAME MP3 versions of many albums a bit more than the lossless version (as any harshness in treble or mid bass that exists prior to long burn-in was evened out... as well for older recordings, the sound was closer to what I was used to), but after burn-in, I definitely 100% find the lossless files to be more enjoyable for all albums (as they contain detail that is lost in even high quality LAME MP3s at high bitrate levels)...
I am just letting you know how I found things, just in case you choose to keep and perhaps use the lossless files later.

@Lee730,
I did find one strange thing with FLAC tags one time on the Studio-V... might be totally unrelated to issues you have seen however...
I tried to apply the FLAC sound level equalization tag (i.e. so that sound level was balanced for all music on my SD Card) - however, it seems that the Studio-V2 couldn't read that FLAC tag properly and it just destroyed the music quality for every single FLAC file (some files much worse than for others - but overall it was hell and I couldn't wait to remove those FLAC tags)..
I just mentioned this just in case you have any tags like this, in the FLAC files that were causing you a problem.

Cheers All, Asiaplay

 

[goodvibes]

I think it's his encoder. Flac is open code so they can vary a bit. I converted a coule of those to wav and back to flac in DBpoweramp and they work fine now. I don't however, understand why some files would do this and others not.

 

[Asiaplay]

@goodvibes,

Thanks for the comment.. yeah, I guess open codecs are not 100% identical all of the time (just as updates to closed codecs mean changes)...
I am like Lee730, also using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for most of my encoding - so it is good to know about the existence of a potential problem, which could occur sometimes (at least now I can count that out as an original recording failure and try another encoder to see if that makes a difference, when I come across that)...

Thanks again - Asiaplay

 

[lee730]

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@goodvibes,
Thanks for the comment.. yeah, I guess open codecs are not 100% identical all of the time (just as updates to closed codecs mean changes)...
I am like Lee730, also using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for most of my encoding - so it is good to know about the existence of a potential problem, which could occur sometimes (at least now I can count that out as an original recording failure and try another encoder to see if that makes a difference, when I come across that)...
Thanks again - Asiaplay

I think it may have to do with the compression level. It seems some songs are much more intensive with things going on in the song and with the compression too high you will run into clipping. So the songs where I notice clipping I'll try to set the compression to 0 for FLAC as goodvibes did and see if it solves the problems. I use FLAC Frontend to encode in FLAC.

 

[goodvibes]

Check the dropbox. FLAC level 8. No issues. It will be the encoder-decoder compatibility.
 
File is 10% larger at 0 than it is at 8.

 

[treal512]

Does anyone have any firsthand impressions on the last Studio-V and this newest one?
 
I've been sifting around the two 3rd Anniversary threads and I am not seeing much in the way of impressions. Most UI chatter. I currently own the last Studio-V and I am on the fence about this newest product. Is it worth it? My current portable IEM of choice are the W4s, which have very little hiss.. so the touted hiss reduction talk is nice, but in my position, that being the only difference is not a worthwhile upgrade. I am happy with the Studio-V, but I'm looking for a way to bump up my SQ levels without breaking the wallet on cables and secondary devices like DACs and amps.
 
Thanks!

 

[lee730]

lol that is so not fair if your W4s are less sensitive than my IE80s .