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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #45 on: June 09, 2010, 03:43:22 PM »
For those people using these players in the car, what kind of FM transmitters are people using to get playback on the car stereo?  I've never owned any of them before, but from what i've seen/heard from friends, there weren't any great, reliable options.

FWIW I have been using a Cowon iAudio 7 for my portable FLAC playback.  Sounds good and is small in size. 

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #46 on: June 09, 2010, 08:47:19 PM »
FWIW, I never liked any of the FM transmitters I tried, even in a crappy listening space like my truck.
(Gotta drown out the sound of flapping beaten old tires somehow! :) )
Best bang for buck by far was buying a new fairly inexpensive generic stereo that has an aux port on the front.

And then stepping up from the headphone-jack out to the audio-out on the bottom of the rockboxed ipod.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #47 on: June 09, 2010, 09:46:37 PM »
FWIW I have been using a Cowon iAudio 7 for my portable FLAC playback.  Sounds good and is small in size. 

Isn't that only 4 GB though?  An 8-disk CD changer holds that much music.  I've spent hours upon hours looking for something that is truly "high gig" (minimum 40 GB, I guess; ideally 100 GB or more), will play 24-bit FLACs, and will play them seamlessly.  I've turned up nothing.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #48 on: June 09, 2010, 11:55:00 PM »
I recently grabbed a SanDisk Sansa Clip+ from amazon for under 50 bucks.


I believe I'm going to be picking this up when its back in stock. 8 gigs internal with additional support of micro sd, sweet. I got a 2 gig card that I can put in there and make it ten.

I think I'll be fine with 10 gigs of music since it would be hard for me to pick a song/album if I had a 100 gigs to choose from.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #49 on: June 10, 2010, 01:22:36 PM »
FWIW I have been using a Cowon iAudio 7 for my portable FLAC playback.  Sounds good and is small in size. 

Isn't that only 4 GB though?  An 8-disk CD changer holds that much music.  I've spent hours upon hours looking for something that is truly "high gig" (minimum 40 GB, I guess; ideally 100 GB or more), will play 24-bit FLACs, and will play them seamlessly.  I've turned up nothing.

Mine is 8GB, and there was a 16GB option 2+ yrs ago when I made the purchase.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #50 on: June 11, 2010, 03:53:02 PM »
FWIW, I never liked any of the FM transmitters I tried, even in a crappy listening space like my truck.
(Gotta drown out the sound of flapping beaten old tires somehow! :) )
Best bang for buck by far was buying a new fairly inexpensive generic stereo that has an aux port on the front.

And then stepping up from the headphone-jack out to the audio-out on the bottom of the rockboxed ipod.
i didn't realize the ipod dock audio-out worked with rockbox?  at least, it certainly didn't work with my crappy car stereo's ipod connector...but i have a standalone dock that outputs through a stereo jack at home i could try...
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #51 on: June 11, 2010, 04:02:56 PM »
Yep works fine on everything I've tried it on - occasionally the associated remote controls work too, but I can always listen to stuff by selecting the music on the ipod itself.
(which for me mostly means selecting a 3-hour show and not touching it again for a while)

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #52 on: June 12, 2010, 02:35:38 PM »
Speaking of rockboxed iPods...has anyone tried using this with Yamaha's Ipod docking station (http://www.yamaha.ca/av/Receivers/YDS11.jsp)       (attached to Yamaha receiver). I am wondering if rockboxing it in order to play flacs will make the dock useless.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #53 on: July 09, 2010, 03:54:15 PM »
My Cowon iAudio 7 is slowly failing after a couple years of very heavy use.  I am looking at the Cowon iAudio 9 or the Sansa Fuze as a replacement.  I see that the Fuze accepts SD cards.  Is it possible to have gapless FLAC playback when playing music off the SD card in the Fuze?  I assume that this question would also pertain to Clip+ owners.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #54 on: July 09, 2010, 10:44:53 PM »
What about the HiFiMAN HM801? Link: http://www.hifiman.us/Products/?pid=71
Saw it advertised in Stereophile but haven't looked into it as of yet.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #55 on: July 09, 2010, 11:53:55 PM »
What about the HiFiMAN HM801? Link: http://www.hifiman.us/Products/?pid=71
Saw it advertised in Stereophile but haven't looked into it as of yet.

I saw that today myself.  Costs $750, battery life is 6-8 hours, and can't play gapless files.  It can play 24/96 FLAC, which is something that no other player can do.  I'm not buying one.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #56 on: July 10, 2010, 01:09:58 AM »
Screw that thing, way too much $$$ and can't play gapless files. So much for that idea.
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #57 on: July 26, 2010, 12:34:01 PM »
thinking about pulling the trigger on a SansaClip+...is there any problem playing 24bit FLACs on this puppy?
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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #58 on: July 26, 2010, 04:51:18 PM »
I'm not sure they make this any more but Kenwood's Music Keg played FLACs.  Not sure why this type thing didn't catch on.

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Re: High Gig Portable Flac Player recomendations
« Reply #59 on: July 26, 2010, 06:05:54 PM »
just fyi - the sansa clip+ does not support 24 bit FLAC playback, only 16 bit.
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