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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:52 pm 
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We've been talking about it............ here it is. I'm not buying (no money & currently no need though the need could change if I have to move to an apartment).

http://store.acousticsounds.com/a/28119/Astell__Kern

Now just get me the darn flac car stereo!

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:01 pm 
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I'll wait to see about the Pono unit.[i'm on the Pono mailing list btw at mypono.com so if there are any updates on the unit i'll get them]......I'd actually love to be a Pono tester if I could figure out how to become one.


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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:11 pm 
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Pono intrigues me as well.

I'll wait for Amazon before considering these kinds of devices, but I'm honestly not sure that I could even hear a difference between V0 and FLAC in a portable environment, let alone hi-rez.

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:23 pm 
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yeah, it would have to a very quiet environment with better than average headphones to even notice.

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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:23 pm 
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I'm only going there if I end up living in an apartment or other environment where one can't play a stereo due to neighbors. My stereo doesn't even have a headphone jack!

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:26 pm 
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The $1,300 unit in your link says it has 64 GB of space. That would hold what, about 200 albums in FLAC?

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:30 pm 
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Linda wrote:
I'll wait for Amazon before considering these kinds of devices

I should have known, they're already at Amazon:

  

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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:18 pm 
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Linda wrote:
The $1,300 unit in your link says it has 64 GB of space. That would hold what, about 200 albums in FLAC?


The $1300 one says it has a USB input. THe cheaper one doesn't mention USB.

Buying a headphone amp for my Oppo, or just going to bookshelf speakers could also be a cheaper option if needed, but others needs are likely different than mine.

I actually don't hear many folks here other than myself currently mentioning financial issues.

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Glenn S.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
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Geff R. wrote:
Linda wrote:
The $1,300 unit in your link says it has 64 GB of space. That would hold what, about 200 albums in FLAC?


The $1300 one says it has a USB input. THe cheaper one doesn't mention USB.

Buying a headphone amp for my Oppo, or just going to bookshelf speakers could also be a cheaper option if needed, but others needs are likely different than mine.

I actually don't hear many folks here other than myself currently mentioning financial issues.


My budget is tight enough that most of the equipment discussed here is not even on my radar.
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Galley
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:50 pm 
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Sony just released a new player, too.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/27/47784 ... ac-players
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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:43 pm 
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Curious if the Sony is limited to 44/16? The article doesn't seem to say.

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
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They can handle up to 24/196:

http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/3960/so ... -f880.html

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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:59 pm 
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Cool! There's also new info on the Pono I just posted there; perhaps we should merge the 2 threads?

viewtopic.php?p=2421558#p2421558

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 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
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Pono is also a music delivery service (and might be proprietary as you say in that thread), so let's keep these topics separate for now.

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Geff R.
 Post subject: Hi-Res Portable Music Player
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:02 pm 
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OK. I got the impression from the article that it was a portable device; & originally was about to post here when I remembered it had it's own thread.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:23 pm 
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Glenn S. wrote:
Geff R. wrote:
Linda wrote:
The $1,300 unit in your link says it has 64 GB of space. That would hold what, about 200 albums in FLAC?


The $1300 one says it has a USB input. THe cheaper one doesn't mention USB.

Buying a headphone amp for my Oppo, or just going to bookshelf speakers could also be a cheaper option if needed, but others needs are likely different than mine.

I actually don't hear many folks here other than myself currently mentioning financial issues.


My budget is tight enough that most of the equipment discussed here is not even on my radar.


Pfffft I'm lucky to have money to buy CDs in my budget.

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