stevester162000

I can't think of my favourite tracks of all genres but my 5 favourite punk tracks are: Turbonegro- Age of Pamparius Iggy Pop And The Stooges- Search And Destroy Turbonegro- Get It On Sex Pistols- Pretty Vacant Bad Brains- Banned In DC And my 5 favorite rock tracks are: Led Zeppelin- Stairway To Heaven Frank Zappa- Muffin Man Pink Floyd- Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-7 Radiohead- Paranoid Android Led Zeppelin- Whole Lotta Love

I returned my NW-A3000 to Amazon because of the software/build quality issue and got a Zen Vision: M only £225 at the moment. Forget 5G Ipod this is the best thing you can get with your money, sound quality just as good as a Sony and doesn't distort like 5G Ipod

Hi im having problems making playlists for use on the nwa3000. Im using Sonicstage instead of Connect as I don't particularily need artist link etc but I do need to be able to make playlists. So i go into Sonicstage and make a playlist from songs in my library on the PC (i can't make one from songs on the player for some reason unless im missing a trick) Then I transfer it onto the player and its on there... but its also transferred all the songs on the playlists so I have duplicates everywhere. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to use stupid Connect to make playlists then? Any help much appreciated thanks!

Hi recently got an NWA3000 very impressed apart from when I tried to put my whole collection on it (only 10gb) and it takes a few hours and I come back and it appears to have frozen on 99% so I do 'safely remove hardware' assuming the transfer has finished but just frozen on the screen. But on opening the player quite a few albums are missing all tracks but one. Don't know if anyone else has had this problem? Or am I just supposed to wait till it sorts itself out at 99%? Also I have used MP3gain on my albums cos loads are quite old cds and very quiet compared to new cds. So now I have the volume up at 28/29/30 (I've done the limiter hack) is this going to seriously affect my battery life? CHEERS FOR ANY HELP!

Just got my shiny new NW-A3000 and what a machine it is! Very impressed with the sound quality just like you expect from a Sony. The difference between this and the Ipod Video is unreal I can't believe Apple get away with such lousy audio from such an expensive piece of kit. Market leader my arse! As long as the next Walkman has Video and decent battery life/software/music store its got to be an ipod thrasher hasn't it? Come on Sony!

Well anyway........... I just got my Walkman NWA 3000 from Amazon today (£175) and I am very impressed so far the quality of it is unreal just as i'd heard fantastic sound quality and really decent bass. I unlocked the volume limiter and it sounds great! I also bought a soft case for it for £5.00 of Amazon which was also a bargain! I didn't even bother installing connect software as my PC is not fast but sonicstage is good enough for transferring. I will just use Itunes to rip all my music!

Yeh that would be great if Sony bought Apple they could rename the Ipod the Walk-pod! Does anyone have a link to a really thorough review on the NWA 3000? Also looking through the forums I'm reading a lot of confusion about whether or not the customisable EQ works on MP3's?

Yep I think thats what it comes down to at the end of the day ... Ipods may be simple to use and iTunes... well iTunes is just brill.. but for people who like decent quality bass, you know who like to hear music like it was supposed to be heard? (loud!!!), its rubbish. Many people go on about the ipods 'balanced' sound, how the heck is bass/treble distorting at high volumes a 'balanced' sound? I'd call that a rubbish headphone amp. You only have to play around with the custom EQ for ten minutes in iTunes to hear how great the iPod SHOULD sound!! The more I think about it the more i'm annoyed at paying £220 on something that has all the audio quality of a £10 cd player. (The video IS good though)

Yeh I have a pair of EX 71's and still get a tinny sound. I got used to the custom EQ on the Rio Carbon I could just tone down the treble and push the mid and bass up. Yeh Ipod Video definately sucks sound quality wise so I'm looking at the NWA 3000. Just two more questions... MP3 doesn't work with the EQ's? What? Surely they do?! Also I only have 256mb ram is Sonicstage ok to use just to transfer songs? I'll do all my ripping in CDex then. Also does Sonicstage aloow buliding and transferring of playlists?

Hi there I recently bought an Ipod Video (3 weeks ago) and regretted it ever since. The videos.....great! Itunes- great! UI- Great! The thing I hate about it is the PATHETIC TINNY SOUND it makes! I listen to a lot of bass-heavy music and using the EQ to boost bass is just not an option. Using say Bass Boost or Hip Hop is a joke as any bass hits just distort and gets incredibly annoying after a while. I believe this is due to the headphone amp not being able to handle any boosted frequencies over 105 db without distorting them or something and this is built into all players so its not a faulty player I have. I've used MP3 gain over my tracks but this inturn requires lifting of the volume limiter which in turn introduces a background hiss so this is a no win situation. Having had a Rio Carbon before which had superb sound quality I was gutted that I had sold that off and bought this pile of S*** I am now selling it on ebay and thinking about the Sony Nwa3000 20gb as I used to have a sony minidisc and hold them in high regard sound quality-wise. I just wanted to ask a few questions about it.... please help! 1. I have dl sonicstage 3.3 seems ok... whats the big deal with the connect software that comes with the player is it all that bad? All I want to do is rip my cd collection (60cds or so) to the player is this like a major undertaking or what? 2. Is the sound quality decent like you expect from a sony? Are the custom E'Q's any good? Is the bass hardcore!? 3. Does it actually convert MP3 to Atrac when transferring to player? Or does the player actually do that on the go like i've heard? 4. Is there a hack to view the HDD in explorer like anapod for ipod and drag n drop? 5. Are there many Fan sites on the net that provide tips etc