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[tech] June 27, 2005 at 12:18:00 AM CEST I have got a new toy 
I have never owned any computer by Apple. I had an Atari ST in the mid-Eighties during my studies. Apple was always too expensive for me and while I could afford an iPod today I decided to go for a different brand. Price was one reason. The giant 20 GB hard disk and the seamless Windows Explorer integration as a USB drive (Jukebox (F:)) another. It has overall and directory specific shuffle mode. You can create playlists (I haven't yet). It is extremely small and light as well with 120 g. Two things which bother me. I need a case or something to hold it. The best would be to have it hanging on my neck. I imagine some cord structure which holds the thing. Does it exist? Do I have to knot it on my own? The other thing bothering me is the earphone plug on the upper right in the image. If I stick it into the device completely I can only hear mono. It has to look out half to give me the stereo pleasure. I feel that this is not ok. There will be a loose contact soon. Should I send the thing back to Amazon in the next ten days? Or is this normal?
nonightsweats,
June 27, 2005 at 11:25:28 AM CEST
i've not got any actual experience with this sort of technology but... only a partial connection giving you the correct stereo image is what i'd call "broken". send it back. thanks for using my song in your image as well. ... link
alex63,
June 27, 2005 at 7:40:31 PM CEST
the weird thing about the connection is that it is quite fix. if i don't touch the ear phone plug in a brute way there is no problem. i am only afraid that i will bend it, when having the mp3 player in the pocket for example, and that this will definitely destroy the plug and may destroy the socket. i won't use the jukebox for jogging (i prefer listening to the sounds of nature when i run) but i will probably use it walking around. in case i have a solid structure to hold it everything should be fine. i have another week or so to decide... btw i still find it totally amazing that this little thing can contain the equivalent of 500 cds in 160-192 bit/s quality. for the time being i have filled it with everything i downloaded from the internet in the past 1-2 years and it is a little more than half full. 2000 songs or something. i love to put it on overall shuffle mode and try to guess the artists. to guess the song names is impossible. a lot of those songs i have never heard as i downloaded them blindly... when i had the atari st i dreamt of a huge 20 mb hard disk. i never got one, it was okay to work with 3' 1/2'' diskettes and the memory. here we have 20 gb in the size of half a cigarette pack. ... link
leptard,
June 29, 2005 at 2:18:44 PM CEST
Hmmm... If the connection doesn't work, send it back, definitely - or maybe try another set of headphones. My own 5GB iPod died not too long ago. I've always used Apple gear myself but there seems to be plenty of alternatives now, so I'll shop around. And Phil, I played some of the A Slow Rip stuff for friends not too long ago. It wasn't just my imagination then, they liked it too... ... link
alex63,
June 29, 2005 at 8:22:56 PM CEST
funny, i just bought some sennheiser mx 500 earplugs and the connection does work! the archos gmini xs 200 i bought is at 169€ at amazon.de right now. i paid 179€ a week ago. apparently there is a new one called xs 202 coming out with a different design, slightly more battery time (10 instead of 8 hours) and a case which comes out in july. that's why the price for the old one is going down. i suppose for that price it is the best mp3 player with 20gb on the market right now.. ... link
nonightsweats,
June 30, 2005 at 4:50:54 AM CEST
thank-ee And Phil, I played some of the A Slow Rip stuff for friends not too long ago. It wasn't just my imagination then, they liked it too... great - thanks for that. ... link ... comment |
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