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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #75 on: December 06, 2010, 09:34:37 AM »
Check out the Archos 5 500gb with Android

http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #76 on: December 06, 2010, 09:49:54 AM »
Check out the Archos 5 500gb with Android

http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons

Any idea if it plays them gaplessly?  What about 24-bit?  I can't find any mention of either of these on the product specs page.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #77 on: December 24, 2010, 10:48:50 PM »

Has anyone used the iAudio 9 from Cowon?  I own the iAudio 7 which I love, except for the fact that the FLAC playback is not gapless.  Curious to know if they fixed that....

"Santa" just ordered one of those for me for Christmas, but I haven't tried it out yet.  From what I understand, the gapless FLAC issue is addressed, but again, I cannot verify this for myself.

Just unwrapped my new i9 and am listening to it now.  Can confirm that it plays gapless FLAC files (listening to The Wall now).  16 bit only; I believe that the Hifiman players are the only ones that can play 24 bit, unless there is some app that does it for the iPods.  Hifiman players are not gapless and are reported to have a rolled off treble, however, which is not what I want from a player that costs a minimum of $250.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #78 on: December 27, 2010, 05:49:05 PM »
Saw this link on etree today.  Did not realize that there that many flac players around.


http://www.squidoo.com/portable-flac-player-comparisons


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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #79 on: December 27, 2010, 06:05:25 PM »
I'll be damned if I haven't lost my second Gigabeat player already!  I hope that it is packed away in one of my boxes!
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #80 on: January 14, 2011, 08:02:48 AM »
can someone recommend a 320gb 1.8" hard drive portable flac player?


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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #81 on: February 06, 2012, 01:04:32 PM »
Bumping this thread to see if any new suggestions are out there. What are you all using now?

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #82 on: February 06, 2012, 04:01:55 PM »
Based on this thread, I am buying a Cowan J3 8 GB.  I have a micro SD card to increase the capacity. 
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #83 on: February 07, 2012, 03:16:40 AM »
iPod Touch 4g with the FLAC Player app.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #84 on: February 07, 2012, 06:13:09 PM »
my buddy is playing 24/96 flac files on his motorola android without resampling, so that's another option to consider.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #85 on: February 07, 2012, 08:57:48 PM »
Again, anything Rockbox flavor should work.  Who knows, you may already have one of these already lying around...

http://build.rockbox.org/

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #86 on: March 09, 2012, 03:44:39 PM »
Wow, this old thread still alive :).  Recently someone reported that the Cowon D2 can accept SDXC cards if you format them to FAT32.  So you can put a 128GB card into a D2.  I think I'd just get that and call it a day.  The 128gb cards cost around $170 and I figure that 256gb cards will be arriving soon (since they now have 64gb micro cards, and the full size card is about 4x as large physically).  The 64gb microsdxc's are currently $135 so still much higher $/gb than a 32gb card or a full sized 64gb, but if you are flush you can use one in a Sansa Clip+/Fuze or Cowon C2/J3/whatever.  These all have good SQ.

The Archos 48 (500gb Android 1.6 player) is discontinued but adorama.com still has some around $200.  I'm slightly tempted because I figure once they're gone, nothing like that will be made any more.  I think it uses a laptop sata drive so you can upgrade it to 1TB.  SQ is supposedly not too bad, but maybe not as good as Cowon or Sansa.  There is also the Cowon x7 which is a 160gb hard drive player that's gotten some favorable comments, though it's kind of big and expensive for my tastes (I'd want a hd player to have 500gb or more).  The Archos also has a USB host port so there's a chance you could set it up with an external DAC/amp, giving you an ultra capacity audiophile rig that's still reasonably portable.

Using any type of handheld electronics while driving a car is apparently illegal here in California and you can get a ticket for it.  I guess I can sort of understand that it takes more cognitive effort to operate something that's not on a fixed mount of some sort.  I bought an in-dash player with an aux input a while back but I find I never use the feature, so I'd go for a pure in-dash player for car use now.  There are probably some that play flac.

I've used car FM transmitters a few times and they just totally suck, especially in urban areas (strong broadcast signals and no empty channels).  They might be useful in some last ditch situations when it's someone else's car and you're out in the boonies, but if you're setting up your own system it's far better to avoid.  Bluetooth ad2p is probably ok but I haven't tried it.

The hifiman player got pretty bad comments on ABI, apparently it's not that great an audiophile device, more of a high-$$$ gizmo for its own sake.  There's a new comparable unit from iBasso that sounds like a hifiman "done right" though comparably expensive (way out of my range so I didn't pay close attention).  I'm not convinced 24 bit is worth it for portable use.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #87 on: March 10, 2012, 07:15:02 AM »
not necessarily relevant but,

mounted   a 1tb hard drive to a samsung galaxy s1 phone. decent to more than decent sound quality

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #88 on: March 12, 2012, 10:08:41 AM »
phr, let us know how that D2+128GB SDXC card works out.   I've kinda been in the market for a new mp3/flac player for ages and been holding out.  100+gigs would be ideal.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #89 on: March 23, 2012, 03:31:54 AM »
phr, let us know how that D2+128GB SDXC card works out.   I've kinda been in the market for a new mp3/flac player for ages and been holding out.  100+gigs would be ideal.
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