Company Solicits Feedback on Next-Gen Recorder

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com a multimedia device vendor has asked the open-source community to help define its next product, a Linux-based handheld portable media player/recorder (PMP/R) featuring audiophile-quality sound. The new product is a successor to the popular Neuros 442 PMP/R. Neuros has published the specs for a development board it calls the first prototype, and has asked hackers, open-source software authors, and others to review and weigh in on the design, which is expected to be finalized in the near future."

Comments

Heh

[Bogtha]

...featuring audiophile-quality sound.

You mean it costs five times as much, but sounds exactly the same to everybody who isn't trying to justify their ridiculously expensive hobby? :)

Okay

[iamdrscience]

First of all it needs a nice fin or two on it to make it more aerodynamic, we don't want this thing to be dragging. Second it needs some more LEDs.

Re:audiophile-quality sound

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me or two the terms "Audiophile-quality" and "handheld" mutually exclusive?

Although I guess if they can market it with wank words like 'oxygen impregnated battery interconnects to reduce the harmonics of the batteries natural resonance" and then charge $4000 for it, then I guess audiophiles might buy it ;)

But on a serious note, I guess to get close to that sort of sound quality I would expect the latest and greated chip like the new creative xfi chip? I dunno. Audiophile I am not.

Essential

[Frantactical Fruke]

Must run on an ethanol converter cell - so I can drink the battery when things get desperate. A side pocket for a lemon slice and an olive would be good, too.

Re:Let's see...

[maxwell demon]

You forgot the free audio codec which can compress 1 hour of music to 16 bytes while maintaining a sound quality which is indistinguishable from the original. Ah, and please add a Star Trek quality universal translator!