Thomson Lyra PDP2201 MP3 Player, 64 CF Card, // CF Reader £40 from http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/ {param} Was a pain to get working in xp, but all is good now (transfering using my usb cf card takes about 8 mins per 64mb, this is because the lyra can only play mpx files so it has to encode them before sending ). Bigpockets sold out of these in a couple of days of going live but I'm told more stock will be in soon r. p.s. these are refurbished units from thomson - I took mine apart and discovered a ceramic capactitor while had been added to the pcb by hand, so these are probably from a once faulty batch of players.
Cool, that's damn sweet for £40. I would buy one, but I already have an mp3 player..... two thing: what's the sound quality like? does that mpx thingy just provide a better compression ratio or summin?
The sound quality is very good, though I haven't heard many other players to compare it to (this even has a 5 channel equaliser and some presets)... supplied headphone are rubbish mind MPX is there just to annoy, it's a protection thing to stop you distributing the files (the mp3's are encoded with the serial code of your cf card)... though in real terms it only means waiting an extra minute or so when transfering files to cf card, so no biggie This is by no means the best player in the world, no radio, no remote, stupid mpx's, they expect you to use real jukebox (!)... but it did retail at £200 this time last year and is worth the £40 I gave r. p.s. actually biggest thing that annoys me is no hold button, accidental button pressingisn't that easy but a hold button would be nice
very nice a new shiny tog im envious well it definately looks the par t7 Im guessing sounds the part, well it had to be better than mine a first generatiion 16mb (yes that right 16) mp3 player i think it was an mpman or something had this wierd black rubber coating but kept killing my pc so it went back now for the question is there any noticable difference between the quality on that compare dot the quality of mp3's burned to a cd or recorded ot mindisc
Well it's hard to say... I haven't used my portable md player for an age, nor my cd player so comparing quality is almost impossible, obviously it sounds different to my nice computer speakers (dtt2200's) and player 5.1. I've never been a huge fan of md though... I have an md hifi and have had two md walkmans, I think the md codec takes too many risks (thy use 7 compression techniques) and that it sounds more rounded than mp3's. Just my opinion though, my ears aren't anything special One thing that made me buy this is the 64mb cf card... I have a 128 card I use with my camera so them both being cf cards is handy. 64mb cf card + reader is almost £40 new too, not that I needed the reader... wonder what I'll do with it.. r.
Makes me almost disappointed I got an MP3 player for Christmas! That one is pretty nice, especially with the blue backlight!:dude:
