Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

On the shelf, I still have my brick-sized Cowon, which was considered an expensive purchase back then (actually, it was!) But these days, no commuting and not much travel. I don't need any more portable audio than a phone can provide

But it looks good. Especially as I have recently got the impression that sourcing screens and batteries and other vital bits is something that takes years, and that's even before tying it together with code. A task next to impossible to achieve!

OK, so this looks like using somebody else's product as a sideswipe. And yeah, it is. Let me excuse myself by saying that if I had a need for dedicated portable audio, I'd buy one of those sweet-looking, reasonably priced, available, little Shanling boxes immediately

For what it's worth, I don't hate the M0 so far. I need more critical listening time, but it's yet to really piss me off. Scanning the card takes quite a while, but then that's not uncommon, and I am comparing it to my much pricer Sony.

As a pocket player with a card slot, it seems like one of the better deals out there.

I will say the card scanning is significantly faster than my Pono, and actually shows the progress it’s making, unlike the ZX2 which gets to 35% and stays there until it magically finishes scanning.

Also I believe you can immediately access the files on a card without scanning it, but it only shows you folder and file names and can be hard to read.

I'm not too outraged either way- the SoC in there must be tiny and stupidly low power- plus it doesn't seem to be able to do card I/O all that fast- can't expect miracles.

If it was a 1K A+K thing, I'd be way more salty about it, of course.

My aforementioned Cowon Brick (in size, not as in paperweight: it might even still work today) had a hard disk inside it. I don't know the relative access speeds compared to sd card? But when I think "How fast does access have to be for audio," I remind myself that I can play music direct from a PC CD drive.