Love blogging, then I'll remember stuff.
Bought the ZuneHD on April 2013, it's almost 3 years since, considering it being a used set and lasting for this long, what a work horse. However, it's dying :(((
I bought a Sony ZX-1 on my birthday early this year for a staggering SGD500.00 and made a loss of SGD100 less than 6months later. It was truly the worst player I've ever had, sound quality's decent, not great for that half a grand spent, needless to say it's useless UI (User Interface) and over complex color-ed enhancements.
Glad I sold it, good riddance, the dood who bought it from me sold it the next week he got it.
I was looking around for a new player only to find out every tom dick and harry are basing the players on the Android OS, this also meant WIFI receivers which to me = necessary noise and additional strain on the player for unnecessary stuff. They also incorporate the raving freaking useless, epic harsh on the highs Sabre DACs. #WTF #SERIOUSLY ?? Did i tell you the ZX-1 retails at $879.00 and the new ZX-2 is close to $2,000, A Fiio X7 cost USD1,000 ... for a portable mp3 player
It's like no one wants to think anymore, we'll just follow the most successful Blu-ray player in the industry who happens to be OPPO and they are using Sabre DAC, so lets use Sabre DACs. Cirrus Logic CS4398, Wolfson WM8740 and Burr Brown PCM1796 were tested and proven DACs yet left to rot...
I guess the real essence of the human heart is showing now, greed, for new and better specs which are mostly self-fulfilling prophecies or merely placebo effect. In the pasts, good products demand good money, #period. You do not get scams or bullshit that increase the screen size for 0.25" and added 1 fingerprint function and charge you excess of USD300.00.
My anger began when a huge bulk of idiots decided the get into the "hip" van by purchasing in-ear monitor earphones. The same model, with the same number of drivers, same housing, same length of cable, new box cost S$200 more that what it used to be.
Shure SE535 @2014 = $500 @2015 = $679
Westone UM2 @2007 = S$280 @2015 =$399
I kid you not, demand > supply does not = exclusivity.
$$$$ = exclusivity. #Period.
I gave up after trying multiple earphones, headphones, speakers and players that promises so much, I know i once said that sound is subjective and a man's meat maybe another man's poison but shit sound is shit.
Gone are the good old days where Cowon, Sony and Iriver produce solid players at a fraction of today's price. I'd probably fix my old Ipod Video and re-use it then.
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