Anyone suggest decent portable flac player?

tylercheribini

Hi

I am currently using my htc wildfire s with Winamp as my portable music player. The sound reproduction isnt great off it even though all my files are of flac quality. I am using a pair of Sennheiser HD 25 II so I feel I am not getting the best out of them with such a poor playback source. Can anyone suggest a stand alone portable flac player that doesnt break the bank? Thanks in advance

emo72

the sansa clip range plays flac. by all accounts well regarded in the portable world. and there really cheap too.

Scubadevils

I've used Cowon iAudio for FLAC playback for about 6 or 7 years now and highly recommend them... I've the older S9 but they've more recent players such as this that comes in at a reasonable price -

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/MP3_Players.1/Cowon_iAudio.15/IAUDIOI9-16GB/Cowon_i9_16GB_MP3_Player.13311.html

Worth browsing the various options from Cowon anyway, a great brand with amazing sound quality.

tylercheribini

sound thanks lads,will look at those options

+1 on sansa zip or clip+. even better options and settings with rockbox on board. 4gb player for less than 30 sterling on amazon. 15 more for a 32gb micro sd card to plug into it. 40gb portable for 50 euro.

tylercheribini

hi

Thanks for your suggestion. i googled some reviews there. They seem to applaud the price point and neat size of the device more than actual audio performance which is what im really after. Have you used one and what did you think of audio quality? The reviews ive read of the cowon all rave about the audio performance. I might go for that one I think even though it costs a bit extra. i dont want sumthin that sounds worse than my wildfire s..

tylercheribini

tylercheribini wrote: »

hi

Thanks for your suggestion. i googled some reviews there. They seem to applaud the price point and neat size of the device more than actual audio performance which is what im really after. Have you used one and what did you think of audio quality? The reviews ive read of the cowon all rave about the audio performance. I might go for that one I think even though it costs a bit extra. i dont want sumthin that sounds worse than my wildfire s..

the audio quality of the zip clip or clip + is very good. it is known as great budget audiophile option. I've had a few and with good earphones or headphones sound is fantastic.

glasso

glasso wrote: »

the audio quality of the zip clip or clip + is very good. it is known as great budget audiophile option. I've had a few and with good earphones or headphones sound is fantastic.

read this...

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=85509

tylercheribini

glasso wrote: »

read this...

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=85509

yeah looks good. the option of expandable memory might swing it for me aswell as the cheap price. Worth a punt maybe...sound quality is paramount for me though, dont care about any other features etc

tylercheribini

yeah been using sansa clip a week now.very impressed with sound.thanks lads

tylercheribini

tylercheribini wrote: »

yeah been using sansa clip a week now.very impressed with sound.thanks lads

have you put rockbox on it? you have a lot of sound settings options with rockbox.

http://www.rockbox.org/download/

you will need to get a firmware bootloader from the sansa website for rockbox to use also. download to your harddrive and tell rockbox installer where it is.

e.g. for clip zip here

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Sansa-Clip-Zip/Sansa-Clip-Zip-Firmware-01-01-20/td-p/270703

tylercheribini

glasso wrote: »

have you put rockbox on it? you have a lot of sound settings options with rockbox.

http://www.rockbox.org/download/

you will need to get a firmware bootloader from the sansa website for rockbox to use also. download to your harddrive and tell rockbox installer where it is.

e.g. for clip zip here

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Sansa-Clip-Zip/Sansa-Clip-Zip-Firmware-01-01-20/td-p/270703

cheers. will try that. can operation be reversed to old firmware easily if needs be?

RangeR

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Actually, Just download Portable Apps Launcher. Never install an app again.


Oops, I misread your post. Wrong type of portable

tylercheribini

tylercheribini wrote: »

cheers. will try that. can operation be reversed to old firmware easily if needs be?

yes. in-fact you can dual-boot so you use the normal firmware also at any time. just hold left (rewind) whilst pressing the power key.

otherwise you can completely remove of course. would be surprised if you didn't find rockbox better tho.

shootermacg

Scubadevils wrote: »

I've used Cowon iAudio for FLAC playback for about 6 or 7 years now and highly recommend them... I've the older S9 but they've more recent players such as this that comes in at a reasonable price -

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/MP3_Players.1/Cowon_iAudio.15/IAUDIOI9-16GB/Cowon_i9_16GB_MP3_Player.13311.html

Worth browsing the various options from Cowon anyway, a great brand with amazing sound quality.

A major selling point of the cowon, for me is the jet effects, which allow you to tailor your sound to your earphones. They also upscale mp3 sound quality which is an added bonus if you're a soundcloud junkie like me.