Topic: What's next from Sony?

[F.O.Bean]

Needs more storage.  Like at least 250gb.  I rip in lossless and the 160gb iPod classic is too small.  More is better in this case.

I agree! a few years back Toshiba was supposed to come out with a 250gb MP3 player, but I haven't heard about it since I NEED a 500gb MP3 player. That would make me one happy tapir

Let's be realistic here.  How old is the 160gb iPod classic?  I've had mine for quite some time. In that time, the cost of storage has dropped like a rock and big disk drives are plentiful and cheap.  I mean really.  We should be talking at least 1tb players, if not more.

I couldnt agree with you anymore bro My 1st iPod Classic I got back in October 2008, and I just got my 2nd iPod Classic this past year at Christmas. They are ROCK SOLID, and quite honestly, the ONLY Apple products I like

[TimSmith]

^^^ Ipod classic will be dead in a few years when flash memory becomes cheaper. There are cards with 128 gb space already. So yeah, they'll definitely need to build 500 or 1000 gb hdd player soon. The other question - will there be enough demand for audio player with such storage space?.. Most likely a multimedia player: videos, etc.

[H₂O]

^^^ Ipod classic will be dead in a few years when flash memory becomes cheaper. There are cards with 128 gb space already. So yeah, they'll definitely need to build 500 or 1000 gb hdd player soon. The other question - will there be enough demand for audio player with such storage space?.. Most likely a multimedia player: videos, etc.

Most AD's convert to a more stream based digital format before then converting to PCM and many (such as most if not all the BurrBrown models) convert into DSD 1bit format first - I believe this allows better noise shaping to be applied reducing quantization error - this is all off memory so I may be a bit off on the details

Recording straight to DSD takes the PCM component our of the equation

I am pretty sure most DA's do a similar process in reverse