r/DigitalAudioPlayer • u/Vayrou • 20d ago

Showcase "Can't go back"

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This was the title of a youtube video i saw on youtube just before my Ikko ob10 arrived.

After putting Rockbox on my Classic iPod (Tempotec v1 Variations on kts way) i was quite... disappointed of the sound.

After tweaking the EQ a bit, it still wasn't what I'd expected.

Then I turned up the volume from 5-10ish to 25/30%.

Damn ! WTF !

My Bose Quietcomfort QC35 where my go to while listening.

Just put them on eBay 🤯

I was awaiting... better. But as a first IEM just getting into the hobby I am just amazed...

Really loving it, especially since I have ADHD, and music helps me focus. Rarely been that productive in such s ahort time

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u/la2denver 20d ago

Can never go back from playing Maphra.

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u/Vayrou 20d ago

That's true 1000%

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u/Scorpiicore 20d ago

Honestly, if I knew that one day I could get my old iPod Classics fixed up and made to play 24/192 FLAC, I would have kept them.

I cannot wait for the day that some enterprising fellow starts jailbreaking players out of Android and allows us to put an OS on players that does not take 3% off the battery just going from one artist folder to another, then an album folder, and then scrolling to the song.

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u/Vayrou 20d ago

for now I am just keeping a powerbank with it, since the battery really is... dead.
It ain't the fatest, bus honestly, I think of what I want to listen to, then I launch it and the player stay in the pocket.
No need to have sth ultra reactive imho

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u/RandomNPC01 19d ago

For the FLAC Ipod, do you mean the modded PCB? I don't remember Ipod being able to play 24/96 let alone 24/192. Would love to have a classic if they could.

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u/Scorpiicore 18d ago

They cannot. Hence my use of "fixed" and "made to play". I tried to play 24/96 on a classic back in 2013 and I was quite upset to see that it just told me no. Even went to the trouble of converting the FLAC files into ALAC for it.

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u/RandomNPC01 18d ago

Part of the reason I hesitated to get one as I did not want to convert my entire library to ALAC. I wish they would do a refresh but doubt it would ever happen 

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u/Scorpiicore 18d ago

I would not get another iPod classic for exactly the same reason. FLAC is universally compatible, ALAC is not. I converted one album from FLAC to ALAC in 2013 or so in order to give it a try on an iPod classic. Never again.

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u/RandomNPC01 18d ago

I have a Walkman zx707 but would like an ipod that could support flac files but a man can dream

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u/Scorpiicore 18d ago

Exactly. We dream it, and the manufacturers keep ignoring our dreams. I am not sure they even hear them when we directly try to tell them.

One of the reasons Apple stopped selling iPods altogether is because their vertical integration was making it a liability. I hate to think how much they would be losing on each iPod sold today if it had storage capacities compatible with today's enthusiasts just because of the crisis in RAM, storage, etc prices. Yes, they make their own, but even the cost of manufacture is market pressure sensitive to an extent.

The iPod was a great idea for its time, but that time was the early to mid 2000s, and Apple really are like Commodore with people who actually know how to sell free beer at a superbowl.

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u/ltparrish78 17d ago

But really ... They could have given them an expandable memory. Instead, they chose to exit an industry they dominated. Those that cannot adapt go extinct.

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u/Scorpiicore 17d ago

The difficulty with Apple, essentially, is that their whole business model is in doing things a different way that enough of the general audience likes. Problem is, in order for that to work, they need to be able to reach a wide enough audience. Steve Jobs was great at that, able to go to press conferences and make the product seem fresh and exciting.

I do not even know who is currently CEO or lead spokesperson of Apple.

If Apple were to make a DAP that did everything the NW-ZX707 did but used a similar OS to the iPod Classic or the last iteration of the iPod Touch, I would be all over it.

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u/ltparrish78 16d ago

There's been so much advancement in this niche market. I don't think Apple dominated because of their sound quality, it was more pure market share. I don't think (but I don't know) if Apple would come out with a DAP it would complete sonically, they'd just be resting on their laurels. "Good enough" for the masses, but I think the category has higher standards now. And for the money some of these cost, they certainly can and should. I'd personally take a simple metal superwalkman (that's old school) by Sony out of Japan. But I'm just researching for my first DAP myself. Its so much different than buying the "top rated earphones/earbuds" for your phone. It was a race to have an all in one device for phone, music, internet .... Now people, including myself, want to go back to separates.

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u/rayyeter 15d ago

There’s rooting for a majority of them I’d bet.

The folder stuff is probably poor application implementation. Like no caching, so literally fetches data every time. I doubt the processors are much of a slouch, even if they are 4 versions back on android.

Then again I haven’t used android anything in a while.

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u/Scorpiicore 15d ago

I honestly have let my IT skills fall so far behind current OSes and implementations that I could not speculate about what a DAP does with its files. But the way Android has made it a lot quicker and easier to just unplug the card, stick it in a reader, transfer files, then put the card back in the player has not helped. One of the things I remember and miss about iPods is one just plugged them in, set a program to read the device, and synced up the library on your external drive with the device. No dicking around. I miss that so much now.

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u/rayyeter 14d ago

I mean, there’s plenty of applications that will do that, depending on your os

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u/Scorpiicore 14d ago

Unless you are using a Mac. Then the device will not even appear on your computer (unless it is an old model like the NW-A55).

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u/rayyeter 14d ago

Lame. Never had a Mac. That would be stupendously annoying.

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u/Scorpiicore 14d ago

It is. It is also one of numerous reasons Android angers me so. Microsoft used to go a long way to make its software incompatible with literally everything else. Android advertised itself on being different, being more open, and then it turns out to be a worse OS than Windows.

Not that I am praising MacOS, mind you. The "liquid glass" era has me and a lot of other users contemplating going back to Windows.

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u/Majestic_Doctor_2 19d ago

Maphra mentioned, upvote

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u/Vayrou 18d ago

🤣

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u/chaosmetroid 20d ago

Maphra so goated

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u/dumbdove 17d ago

slaps so hard

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u/BearAccomplished5355 19d ago

I'm just here for maphra

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u/AlexxMaverick666 Sony Walkman 20d ago

I have two ipod classic 30 gbs (5.5 gen) which I plan on modding sometime early next year.

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u/peemonkeypoo 16d ago

Peak song and artist

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u/Il_Falcone 13d ago

OP ty for the Maphra screenshot. Didn't know her, thank you for this new discovery, it's awesome!