Portable Music Player - Recommendation

[DIDI]

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^^^ I would kill to have that battery life. Personally I don't think not having access to streaming is a problem

[feather]

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Sony Walkman NWZ-ZX2 Preview - CNET

[chuckc]

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never thought it would be so hard to find a good sounding relatively inexpensive portable music player that is easy to use (sort of like windows explorer) and has a decent amount of storage (50-100 gb would be nice)

appreciate any recommendations.

[subterFUSE]

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Wow that's cool, didn't know there are DACs for cars.

There used to be custom iPods with upgraded sound chips.

Amazon.com : HRT - Istreamer - Outboard DAC for Idevices 12v Version : MP3 Players Accessories

[feather]

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Wow that's cool, didn't know there are DACs for cars.

There used to be custom iPods with upgraded sound chips.

[subterFUSE]

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How about a smartphone with a decent DAC ?

There are good outboard DACs available, too.

I've got one in my car called an iStreamer 12V. Works specifically with Apple products. You use the standard Apple USB charger cable into the DAC, and then it has RCA analog output. No jitter. Works up to 24/48 resolution.
I run that directly into my DSP for the car stereo. It sounds fantastic.

[go0gle]

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How about a smartphone with a decent DAC ?

The iPhone 5s seems like it has great audio quality output and its cheaper now because of the 6

[diegoff]

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pono looks good... uss400? wow... itīs a bit too much

[Huggie Smiles]

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if you can wait - you can get the pono early in 2015

https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__ProductDetails?viewState=DetailView&cartID=e26e9722-3f2e-4755-b3e6-cdd66421579d&sku=NY001Y&store=ponomusic

[ddr]

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My Allen & Heath XD20's work well too.

Great value price for people in the US Allen Heath Xone XD-20 In Ear Headphones x-one xd20 iphone ipod earbuds 6938122235649 | eBay

$34.95 w/ free shipping through Amazon.. i can attest, these are good in-ear's but a tad fragile, hence the drop in price

i made the mistake of renewing my iphone with a 16gb again.. only finding out that not a lot of 2 hour mixes fit on it anymore as most are encoded pretty high nowadays lol. so i am finding i tend to go through a refresh every month or so although still a pain (white problems as i like to say --credits to Chris Rock)

[floridaorange]

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You use it? like for your cars tape deck? if so - that's amazing and awesome! I had 12" subs in my camaro that were decent and used a walkman to play cd's on it in college,

[chuckc]

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Yes, i still have mine LOL.

[floridaorange]

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remember the cd walkmans that you could attach a tape to that would go into your cars tape deck to play cd's

[chuckc]

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I am surprised they don't have more of these units out there. I am more then happy with the Sony Walkman MP3 player I have, its just that the storage space is to small (only 16 gb)

[DIDI]

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Bloody hell : I can pretty much buy a new Pioneer for the price of that Astell and Kern !

I just play off my i-phone and am happy that I can export playlists from i-tunes .. which I tolerate. Apps like Rekordbox are a real bonus for playing tracks and testing Cue Points and playing round with Loops.

My Allen & Heath XD20's work well too.

Great value price for people in the US Allen Heath Xone XD-20 In Ear Headphones x-one xd20 iphone ipod earbuds 6938122235649 | eBay

My musical talent is listening well and I take that really seriously But I really shouldn't have bought that. I'm sure there are ways to do it better . It is a real pain to use. I leapt in too fast. I 'm looking around for something that suits better for my requirements. The iBasso is one I am looking at . I want to actually touch one and that is proving difficult here.

I think it's great that these hi res players seem to be getting a little more mainstream . But they still have audiophile nerd mentality. Carrying around a headphone amp sort of reduces the portability I'm not doing it Up to date I haven't found any of them have anywhere near the ease of use of an iPod . Problem is once you hear these players it's hard to go back. .