Anyone recommend a portable FLAC player ?

[Deckard]

Piss just missed out after not seeing a 2nd hand but good condition C4 sell for 285 quid

[VNVObit]

Piss just missed out after not seeing a 2nd hand but good condition C4 sell for 285 quid

Love the C4 for its steampunk feel (and nearly bought one last year) but really wanted something with a better user interface

[adam]

this is another type of thing that massdrop do sales on quite often

[Deckard]

Just joined Massdrop - what a clever idea

[wanye]

oooh. massdrop is like groupon for geeks who like shiny things instead of tat and spa days

[adam]

i just got a little speaker from there - was pleasingly under £15 so exempt from duty & vat (and the £8 handling fee more importantly)

there are polls on there where people vote on what to run drops on - you can add items to polls and create your own - they need 200 responses to be considered

[adam]

massdrop had this one recently - they list a lot of the parts used if anyone fancies cobbling one together http://www.head-fi.org/t/715948/new-xue ... al-wolfson

[Deckard]

Well I took your (and the head fi forums where it is currently number one) advice and got a fiio x5 rather than the sony zx1 and got two 64 gig San disk class 10 cards at 26 quid each including postage. Got the fiio from amazon so if I really don't like it I can return it and get the sony !

[Deckard]

Fuck me 400 meg for Depeche Mode's Strangelove single in Dsd / scad format - Cripes !!

[VNVObit]

So has the Fiio arrived?

[gumboot]

Reading up on that thing, dual SD-card seems a bit low-capacity. Can it be supplemented with USB mass storage?

[Deckard]

Well the x5 currently can run dual 128 gig micro sd cards and future support for OTG USB storage drives. Head for Headfi for all the latest about it their on their forums where the fiio CEO posts quite frequently !! Love mine already, great audio thru my IE800 and certainly loud enough, the scroll wheel and buttons are fine as is the GUI. Recommended.

[gumboot]

this is another type of thing that massdrop do sales on quite often

Joined massdrop and saw people moaning about prices being higher than buysonic, so I joined buysonic too.

Not much choice, not much control, and no international shipping ('cept for canada), but meaningfully lower prices. Haven't bought anything yet, so I don't know how good they are.

[(o)(o)]

Well it isn't a FLAC player, but today received the latest Nano in the 1st gen replacement program - and what a tasty bit of hardware it is. Hadn't really planned on keeping it - I now have three portable music players - but it's so right. Great design and GUI, excellent sound quality and build quality. Size weight, cool aluminium feel, and form factor complete the appeal. It's a keeper.

Posted the old Nano late last Friday. Pretty impressed with Apple Care turnaround.

[adam]

this is another type of thing that massdrop do sales on quite often

Joined massdrop and saw people moaning about prices being higher than buysonic, so I joined buysonic too.

Not much choice, not much control, and no international shipping ('cept for canada), but meaningfully lower prices. Haven't bought anything yet, so I don't know how good they are.

thanks, thats one good thing about massdrop - they get some kind of deal from usps so international shipping is pretty reasonable