skyther

Moved to the phones forum. Not everything belongs in the Hi-MD forum. Look for the right forum next time, thank you. Look at the SPL and impedance/resistance ratings. The higher the SPL and lower the impedance values, the more volume you will get. However, for your own safety, I will recommend earplugs or small closed headphones against your will. This is to protect the environment (and yourself) from the damage done to both you and your surroundings as a result of blasting your music at 30/30 and pissing everyone around you off, should you get bashed in the head by an old lady or a group of punks.

Thank you for not double posting. There are obvious differences between desktop and portable hard drives. Ramps and fluid bearings with overall much more rugged designs used in portable hard drives will withstand more knocks than their desktop counterparts. Fluid bearings are cushioned and fare much better against shocks. Please use comparable and relevant evidence in backing your opinion. Precautions for desktop drives are not entirely relevant for laptop drives. Hard drive technology has progressed much further than MO tech. Optical media has always been more error prone. It's not even a valid arguement. A single speck of dust on the disc will trigger error correction to start reading parity bits. 2.3MB/s is awfully slow, compared to what the normal pods do.

There's no ignorelist on this board. If you don't like it, don't come here. Just a little cocky line I learnt not too long ago from someone.

Please don't double post. Stick to a single thread.

Heh. That's like saying Sony's shitty CD players sound the best since they play PCM, not compressed. http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread....4883#post874883 Since you guys don't bother listening to what I have to say, here's someone else saying it. And that's not from iPod lounge. Face it. iPod = prima donna for quality portable audio, and nothing that's currently available in the market will match it. Apple did things right, Sony didn't, and they're trying hard to play "catch up" now. It's CATCH UP, boys, not overtake. Exactly. I get to use both Apple Lossless AND PCM. 20GBs on an iPod isn't that much when you're loading files which are ~30 megs apiece, but ALAC brings that down to 20, so no, Sony's PCM support doesn't give it enough credit to beat the iPod. Do your homework, say a Google maybe? Changing the battery on the iPod doesn't even involve any screws. I am continually amazed at all the -------- I see on here... people who are full of -------- and can't seperate fact from fiction and claim their beliefs to be fact when 'scientific' tests (ie. ABX) have been performed to prove so otherwise. http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat12...28/results.html Fact. You = fiction. [edited by Administrator for language]

I should buy an iHP just to tell you how good it sounds hmm? Then I would be lying to myself by promoting a product that's actually shit. Obviously I've tried iHPs, fool. I even got to keep a friend's one for 2 days. Jumping to conclusions is not smart.

Mute all sources except wave and main under Windows' Volume Control.

Yeah I'll have to order 2 more sets of Silver Lace ICs for the PC1 and the switchbox that I'm currently building.

That's because LP4 is lower bitrate, which means more data can be stored in the buffer, and hence less physical/mechanical activity since longer lengths of audio can be read at any one seek. A single seek can store roughly 40~50 seconds of traditional SP audio, whereas LP4 will store 4x that amount, hence 4x less physical/mechanical activity is required, and that's where you get longer battery play times. Hi-SP is 256kbps, just slightly under traditional SP's 292kbps. This has absolutely nothing to do with the discs data storage capacity. Audio is time-base measured, not data capacity. If Hi-MD has 6x the data storage capacity compared to traditional MD, it stores 6x (actually more, since Hi-MD uses a smaller bitrate, ie. higher compression) the length of audio. So do you have any idea what you're on about, or am I just blabbering rubbish?

If one died, don't you think I would be scared enough not to buy another and give it praise? Good grief, some people are so negative. There isn't anything else to 'upgrade' for when it already is the best around (for portable fidelity, at least)... I'm expecting Apple to introduce cost cutting measures to the iPod line soon, given the falling prices and rising popularity. I spotted 3 iPod users on a single train ride today, one of them flaunting it in his hand with a white skin.

Since we never get any fun around here... "Helppp!! Noo, someone save me!!" Skinning the iPod alive... mwahahaha! Flipping the 2 halves of the box open reveals Steve's message to you... "Enjoy". "Don't steal music", Steve reminds you... buy all your music from iTMS so we can profit more since we sold you the iPod for dirt cheap! :laugh: But wait, there *IS* no iTMS in Australia... :sleep: Anyway, be a good boy and keep those ugly 128Kbps MP3s away from me. Turning the iPod on with the wrap still on... Backlight on, backlight off... A magic trick, a mirrored twin! Everything, including the accessories, are as white as snow, nicely wrapped and packaged in a classy looking package. 2 iPods sitting side by side amongst a garbage landfill. It's nice when some things are designed to give the user a complete satisfying experience, right from even opening the package. Mmmm. :happy:

I apologise for my stupidity, but what does "moving" 1GB and 150MB of data have anything to do with battery life? Unless I remember incorrectly, playback times and battery duration times are measured in hours, minutes and seconds, not MB and GBs.

Most of the time MDs will not sync with PCs, even digitally. Sound cards have rather high noise floor levels, and their digital outputs are usually "always on" unlike Hi-Fi components. Try muting every source other than Wave in Windows' kMixer (or Volume Control, whatever they call it). If it still doesn't work, there's nothing much you can do about it.

MP3s are ripped from CDs. Radio stations broadcast music from CDs. So, you must be using vinyl? I've got more than enough equipment that lets me play PCM, Hi-MD isn't going to be a part of my arsenal any time soon. You need to go back to school and learn how to type. Dropping babies on their heads give similar effects to exposing delicate electronics to shock - they start to malfunction over time.

Most of your music comes from CDs, no? (Or at least I hope so...) So Hi-MD is just catching up to the big boys, that's not really an advantage. This is a wild statement. You have no factual evidence to compare durability between 2 different types of media.

Small and versatile, yes, but it's loaded with unnecessary features that most people will never use. The size and shape of the remote make it an annoyance to use. Combined with 3 irritating jog levers, it's definately not a well thought out design, despite the highly informative LCD. It's completely dependant on the remote since there are no buttons on the unit. It takes a long time to 'boot', and even longer to respond to DC input. Redbook playback is not bug free. The unit has minor but annoying problems playing back a good number of copy protected CDs. Certain types of cheap CD-R media will also not play properly, despite it's designation of a MP3/WMA CD player. Line-out (both analog and optical) is not clean. Poor design of remote will not allow for headphones with 'fat' plugs unless the mini extention cord is used, making an already cumbersome remote even more so. Sound quality not particularly enjoyable, excessive bass enhancement and very prone to clipping. I could go on, but to sum it all up, the 550 looks good on paper but has too many small quirks to be truly useful. Quality wise, it's still better than Sony PCDPs, but it's still not my choice of a device for regular use.

The iMP-550 sucks. Far, far away from being the best portable CD player. Way too bass heavy and coloured to be of any use.

http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread....8583#post858583 http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread....?t=68698&page=1 Not a single MD source to be found on that list. (It's not just CD, it's all digital sources in general, including DACs and sound cards.)

You should be happy to have me as your #1 eccentric and controversial mod. :happy: I'm getting a MD deck sent to me soon from "me" anyway.

I'd go with the NH1, although MD doesn't really appeal to me anymore since I'm not interested in crappy sounding portables... A Hi-MD ES deck would probably spark my interest.

^ Uh... ? Kooreesu... better be safe than sorry. :happy:

EU crippled = cream of the crop? Hehe.

You saying Sony has better? What does Sony's MD walkman division share in common with their ES division? Other than the brand name, nothing. Just because a company such as PP is new in the industry doesn't necessarily mean they have little experience in the field. Old dinosaurs who adapt slowly to consumer demands and market expectations don't fare as well as new upstarts with modern technology. Do I sense stereotyping? If the product is from a company as big as Sony, it must be good. They can't even produce a HDP worthy of the iPod while Rio and iRiver (again, small upstart companies) can. Sony has been long cutting costs with the design and manufacturing of their products. MDs are a lot more customized (in terms of electronics) than the majority of HDPs. If done correctly, this could be an advantage for MD, but cost cutting + custom electronics designs don't go together very well. You get cheap DSPs, cheap DACs and cheap amp circuits. *Anyone who argues again that Class D amp designs = sound quality as a primary objective will get flamed.* Sony DACs (unless their SACD ones) don't compare well against Burr-Brown and Wolfson ones. The NH900, IMO, is not a high end unit. You don't introduce more plastic, a 10WM, a MC33 and call it a high end unit. I thought it was fairly obvious that the cost of an iPod's parts alone is more than a NH900, yet both retail for similar prices. Putting electronics aside, even the external difference is obvious: Lucite™ [a.k.a. acrylic] and a chrome back or a full aluminium shell with the mini vs a cheap ABS plastic back and an aluminium front.

!!!! USING ER-4s WITH LP?!!! Damn, I'd fire you as well. Uhm, ER-4S or 4P? I didn't think that a MD portable would power 4Ps properly. Apple didn't design the audio related components, PP did. Rest assured that the components you'll find in an iPod will be of a much higher standard with respect to "hi-fi" compared to what you get in a MD portable.

The 300 Euros you pay doesn't necessarily gurantee you better sound. Portable equipment is designed with size and power consumption as it's top priorities. Sony has, for years, used a general amplifier circuit for it's portable products across it's range, only making slight modifications for each model. Shared design/platform = lower production costs. The HD amp reflects on the same interests. Class Ds are power efficient, but they aren't guranteed to produce better sound. I see no where in Sony's advertising material where it states that a HD amp will result in better quality sound. Class D amps don't have a large share in the audiophile market. Where sound quality is concerned, "Class A" has always been favoured. C2 is used in audio ripping via IDE. Do a Google. A rip of a CD done on a PC (EAC), once again, will be a cleaner rip than one done by MD, even if it's in PCM. EAC slows down to re-read a scratched portion of a CD until it gets consistant results, a CDP doesn't. A PC reads the CDDA tracks as data, and from then on it's bit perfect. The data does not undergo DSP, unlike in a CDP. Different CDPs have digital outs of varying quality, despite the fact that it's "digital". I never said anything about jitter and quartz clocks, I thought you brought that up. Regardless of individual components, they all work on power as a common requirement. You can't expect much from a 1.2V rechargable. All electronics have tolerance thresholds. As long as the signal does not deteriorate pass limits, there is no harm done. This 'signal deterioration' will be reflected in the sound. Which is why I have Rubycon caps in my amp. Can the recording ability of a portable match those of a deck? Absolutely not. The components used in a deck are completely different. Maybe you ought to try comparing a recording done in a proper deck, say a JB9xx or JAxxxES series and compare it to one from your portable.