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i think we all want to know: is it the awesome sound of 24k gold or the washed out garbage of mere 18k gold? disclaimer: my audio card has swappable op-amps :D

i think we all want to know: is it the awesome sound of 24k gold or the washed out garbage of mere 18k gold? disclaimer: my audio card has swappable op-amps :D https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Sound-Cards/Hi-Fi/Essence_STX_II_71/ https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Sound-Cards/Hi-... (i still use a Sansa Clip+ with RockBox firmware) http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/sansa-clip-measured.html http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/sansa-clip-measured.html

ComputerGuru 5y ago
My Sansa was stolen when my car was broken into it years ago. I still find myself wishing I had it, but not enough to seek out a comparable replacement (if such a one exists).
- leeoniya 5y ago
  that sucks :( they're next to impossible to find now. i have an extra battery from ebay for mine when the inevitable happens and i have to crack it open for the swap. i looked a couple years ago for something with a bit bigger screen that can be flashed with rockbox and has comparable audio fidelity, plus sd card storage and came up empty, or absurdities like the OP.
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    Yeah, everything out there now seems to be a customized Android so "extreme bloat hidden behind a minimalistic UI" with all the latency and lag that entails (to both audio and UI). But there is a suggestion in a sibling comment I'll have to check out.
- kadoban 5y ago
  I grabbed a "AGPTEK HiFi Bluetooth MP3 Player Rocker V2", which is compatible with Rockbox, a while back. It's about as nice as I remember my old Sansa being.
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll save it for future reference.
kadoban 5y ago
I'm surprised anyone remembers Rockbox, I still use and love it. It helps that some of my old code is buried somewhere in there, that was the first open source project I ever got code into.

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i think we all want to know: is it the awesome sound of 24k gold or the washed out garbage of mere 18k gold? disclaimer: my audio card has swappable op-amps :D

by leeoniya 5y ago

ComputerGuru 5y ago
My Sansa was stolen when my car was broken into it years ago. I still find myself wishing I had it, but not enough to seek out a comparable replacement (if such a one exists).
- leeoniya 5y ago
  that sucks :( they're next to impossible to find now. i have an extra battery from ebay for mine when the inevitable happens and i have to crack it open for the swap. i looked a couple years ago for something with a bit bigger screen that can be flashed with rockbox and has comparable audio fidelity, plus sd card storage and came up empty, or absurdities like the OP.
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    Yeah, everything out there now seems to be a customized Android so "extreme bloat hidden behind a minimalistic UI" with all the latency and lag that entails (to both audio and UI). But there is a suggestion in a sibling comment I'll have to check out.
- kadoban 5y ago
  I grabbed a "AGPTEK HiFi Bluetooth MP3 Player Rocker V2", which is compatible with Rockbox, a while back. It's about as nice as I remember my old Sansa being.
  - ComputerGuru 5y ago
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll save it for future reference.
kadoban 5y ago
I'm surprised anyone remembers Rockbox, I still use and love it. It helps that some of my old code is buried somewhere in there, that was the first open source project I ever got code into.