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80 Gig MP3 Player
An Anonymous Coward writes: "I don't know who has anywhere near enough MP3 music to need an 80G drive, but for those who want one Reality Media has just released the GIDI Digital Jukebox. The company is based out of Belgium and offers the unit in three different box styles including one for the dash ($715) and one for a systems rack ($795). The company will also sell you the guts alone to build your own player. The key is the company's Single Board Audio Computer (SBAC), which is a pre-programmed for digital music."
Why is it so hard to believe that someone would want 80 gigs of music storage? Is it difficult to believe that someone would have several hundred CD's collected over the years and want to archive them at a decent quality in a jukebox? I know I've run out of space on my 40 gig drive and am going to adding another just for music..
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when it comes to common sense than that would be true. But today EVERYBODY uses the same basic hardware. Home Theatre Magazine reviewed 30 DVD players and 30 CD players. The highest marks on DVD players was to the latest APEX dvd player... best video best sound, it beat out the B&O , $1500.00 DVD player hands down, the apex unit is $229.95.
In Cd players the mentioned that if it doesnt have digital out, dont buy it. otherwise there was no perceptable difference from the $199.00 unit to the $3200.00 cd player they tested. (They also mentioned that audiophiles that use Scopes to check for better specs are either stupid or rich as only a dummie would pay huge dollars for something that you cant hear.)
It's sctually very interesting to research Audio and so-called audiophiles... several audio masters, the great men that designed the awesome audio of today remark that a great majority of "high-end-audiophiles" are just spoiled rich kids that really dont know anything, and are coloring their hearing because they spent $50,000 on their stereo... A human cannot hear the differnce between Silver no-ox cables or 12gague lamp cord in a home stereo or commercial audio install. and many of the perceptions that people swear by are either artifical coloring of the audio (Ala Tube Amps, they sound different) or reflections.
research the audiophile world, it's pretty funny and will give you new insight on how to snicker when a salesman trys to say that that $2700.00 Nakamitchi is the only choice in high end audio.
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