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? :)

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.