Ever since I got my first Sony Walkman as a kid in the 1980ies, one would almost never see me in public without headphones. I went through the whole evolution of mobile music players: several Walkmen, later Discmen, I even had a Minidisc once. In the late 1990ies I got myself a Rio PMP 300 and got introduced to the lossy world of MP3s. After several MP3 players I started using my mobile phones for that purpose, first Nokia, later Android phones. Finally, streaming services. But a few years ago, I stopped with the casual listening of music everywhere and started a more 'serious' habit of dedicated listening at home (unearthed my vinyl collection and ripped all my CDs to FLAC).
For some time now my work life requires extensive travel by train (1+ hours trips) and frequent overnight stays at hotels. Unhappy with the sound quality of my mobile, I first bought a Fiio Alpen E17 DAC and started using my Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro from home. This was fine, but a bit unhandy, since disk space is very limited (FLAC, remember?). Also, always starting up my laptop seems unpractical. So I did some digging and decided, that I am unwilling to pay fantasy prices for one of these fancy new lossless players out there (Fiio, Astell & Kern). Luckily, I stumbled upon Rockbox, an open source alternative firmware for MP3 players. I still have an old Philips GoGear HDD6320 player, which I didn't use anymore, because it only supports MP3 and WMA and only works with Windows Media Player (moved to Linux ages ago). So I installed Rockbox on it, which supports FLAC, and filled the 30 GB storage with some of my music. Now I hook the Fiio DAC with my Beyerdynamic to it and am completely happy while travelling and staying in hotels :) Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? - *ASRock Ion 330* (home office) w/ Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS + LMS 7.9, FLAC > Local Player > Behringer MS 40 active nearfield monitors via toslink - *Boom* (master bedroom), *Radio* (master bathroom), *Archos 35 Home Connect* + SqueezePlayer (guest bathroom) - *Reson PR 80s* as UPnP client (living room) > Parasound DAC 1500 > vintage Wega Modul 42V amp (w/ 42E equalizer, 42T tape deck, and Thorens TD 160 Mk II turntable) > Quadral Vulkan Mk II - *Duet* + *Radio* in storage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wortgefecht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102419 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
