Hi all,
as one of the first users of M10 here some suggestions from my side.
Because I do not want to carry a seperate audio player with me, I use it as MP3 player also. Doing that, I found some suboptimal “features”.
First, the time shown in the display is not always correct for some songs. It is sometimes much longer (e.g. more than ten minutes for a song which is only 4 minutes in reality). As a result, during play the indicated time is running much faster than real time. I tried to find out, if this behaviour happens only when playing songs encoded in variable bit rate, which was my first thought. But no, the same effect appears for titles encoded in fixed bit rate, no matter which bitrate is used. Not that good.
Second, for a serious listener there is an important demand for playing FLAC files, maybe even OGG. Why is this missing? Much worse and cheaper players do have this capability. O.k., this device is not really a pure audio player, but nevertheless this is much appreciated!
Third, as mentioned by Sony, I tried to play back songs encoded in AAC. No matter which encoder I used, they could not be played back. And I tried several ones. So I really do not know, which encoder one has to use for that, if it is possible at all. Any ideas?
Fourth, because of the strange menu structure it is totally annoying playing back albums. The songs in a folder will be played according to the file date, not according to the song name. To get the sequence you want, you need to modify the file date with software tools, which is a lot of additional work to perform. Stupid engineering here. Sony could have changed that for files on the SSD card at least. Or, better, let the customer decide which one is prefered by adding a feature in the menu.
It’s not a trick, it’s a Sony. Or, in other words, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
I only hope that a future software update will fix the problems soon.
Beside the complaints above, I am very impressed by the other features, especially the quality of recordings and during playback. The installed headphone amplifier is great, it drives even difficult headphones with ease. And there must be a really good DAC used. Does anyone know which one? I wish I could see the schematic or even the service manual one day...
Best wishes,
Martin