I bought the archos jukebox and returned it because the maximum volume and
bass were too low. Apparently you can solve that by hooking the player to a
20$ boosteroo and using headphones that are known to work well with the
archos (there's alot of discussion going on about that at
www.funmp3players.com) but I decided against keeping it. Still, at ~230$
after rebate, 6 gigs of mp3s and a device you can also use as a portable
harddrive it's an excellent deal. Also, the battery life is 8 hours when
playing 128kbps, a little less when playing higher bitrate mp3s. You can
also use a bigger laptop drive with it (20gb and 30gb have been successfully
used), although it voids your warranty. The firmware is upgradeable so
support for new formats can be added by the company if those become popular.
The tiny Treo player (www.treoplayer.com) is coming out in June with an
originally named price of 400$ for the 6gb version and 550$ for the 20gb
version, although it might be lower by the time it comes out because of the
recent sharp drop in prices of other HD MP3 players. If you're looking to
get an HD based player, this is the one to get. Also scheduled to ship
during the summer is the terapin mine player
(
http://www.mineterapin.com/web_html/product_mine.html) which also lets you
record audio, pictures and works as an Internet device. I'm not entirely
sure it's not a hoax.
Cheers, Nir
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Static Beats" <static@staticbeats.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: [idm] 6 Gig MP3 Player
Here's the company (the product costs $319 and stores 6 gigs of MP3's)
http://www.archos.com/products/product_500096.html
Here's the article that led me to the product
http://www.msnbc.com/news/566427.asp
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com
Electronic Music For The Mind
http://www.staticbeats.com/sb365idm.ram
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