I didn't know Samsung makes memory cards though? Cool.
On 5/2/2017 6:09 PM, Kenny wrote:
Try looking up Pny, Samsung and SanDisk SD cards on Amazon.com.
Purchased mines during a Black Friday sale on Amazon.
At 05:37 PM 5/2/2017, you wrote:
Dude where did ya get a 256 GB SD card? The VRS allowed it too?
That's epic!
On 5/2/2017 5:33 PM, Kenny wrote:
WOW! I've owned a VRS 2nd gen for over 4 years and it's my most used
piece of equipment in my home.
Having my favorite OTR stations bookmarked as Favorites along with
several other Live audio streams like CNN, this thing is en valuable
to me.
Listen to my local newspaper and favorite print publications via NFB
Newsline every single day on my VRS. Nothing like having the
Samantha voice read to you aloud the morning news or something from
Reader's Digest, Popular Science or WebMD the Magazine.
Have download some nice ebooks from my Bookshare account to my VRS
so Samantha can read me a nice bedtime story every night.
I have my VRS plugged via 3.5" jack directly into my MagicBox mini
Bluetooth speaker and it sounds great. If I carry it around, I have
some headphones plugged up in it and it sound still great. Rarely do
I listen to it with the internal speaker.
Even have downloaded some DV (Described Video) content to a 256 GB
SD card inserted to my VRS to have even more entertainment at my
fingertips 24/7.
With the recent v4.83 upgrade, the automatic clock sync works
fantastic now. My Stream humgs like a fine tuned car.
The sluggishness you experienced with it maybe more related to your
network, not the VRS?
The only 2 things I would want to change is to give it Bluetooth
connectivity and more internal storage. Other than that it's my
favorite hardware audio player.
At 08:32 PM 5/1/2017, you wrote:
Actually I've decided to rid myself of the VR Stream - even though
I've had it for only 24 hours.
I stand by what I said about the VR Stream - a nice and convenient
device to use - but it doesn't suit me.
I don't regret buying the Stream of course, now I have one I know
exactly what all the fuss is about concerning this device and I
really like the comprehensive feature set, I just don't like the
quality of that internla speaker and the slow way the unit behaves
when connected to the Internet.
Anyway now I know <smile>.
On 2/05/2017 9:28 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
I've never thought of the Victor Stream's audio as being
"muffled"...having said this, I think of it more like the sound of
a 6-transistor radio! If you plug it into a good speaker or a good
set of headphones, you do get a pretty good sound! But no...if
I'm going to listen to any music on that thing, I'd much prefer an
external speaker or headphones!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 5:34 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
I just shake my head though when it comes to that muffled speaker for
audio, all my phones do far better than what the Stream does but then
again audio has always been a problem with the Stream.
The handling of multiple format files - for recording as well as
playback - is a welcom addition and - at the very least - the
quality of
audio from the headphones jack seems to be quite acceptable.
On 2/05/2017 2:41 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
As to slow downloading of data, I have noticed with ours, and
those of
some friends, that it doesn't seem to have a great wi-fi transceiver
in it. Even when I'm close to my router, it usually says that
reception is poor.
Other than that, you are right, a lot of functionality in that
little
package.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 10:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
Hi!
I just bought one of these units and would like to make comment
on my
purchase.
Firstly I think that the unit does a brilliant job for what it is in
most respects.
The sound from the internal speaker is a little muffled however -
having
already heard a VR Stream - I was already prepared for this, a
bit of an
annoyance one might say so to overcome this I use a small BUniden
hand-held amplified battery speaker I've had for years, cost me $25
about 7 years ago, pity the Stream doesn't have Bluetooth but I
guess a
product can't have everythint.
Now I don't know whether this is my unit in particular but I have
noticed that the downloading of data seems to be incredibly slow
compared to other devices I have on my network, I used the "Check
for
Updates" function and - according to that - the firmware is up to
date,
well at least the data does get downloaded I guess.
There's a hell of a lot of functionality packed into the VR
Stream box
and a lot of this - such as the Internet Radio, podcasts and so
forth -
I won't bother using - given I already have better solutions for
that
sort of thing - but for those who don't the VR Stream provides a
great
entry level to the world of Internet Radio and Podcasting.
Getting online with the Vision Australia library was a snap so I
downlaoded a couple of books.
Again, I have other Apps and so forth which I prefer to use
myself but
the Stream is convenient for reading, no doubt about that even
though I
read all my newspapers these days straight from the web site its
good to
know I have a reliable backup.
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