Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Kenny]

Well I can understand your point. Price is an issue when it comes to the VRS 2.

I'm just glad it has been around for my own 
personal entertainment needs. I keep it plugged 
up and on 24/7 wired up to my trusty Magic Box II 
mini speaker via the 3.5 jack. Hasn't let me down yet.


If another audio player does hit the market that 
offers similar accessibility functionality that 
rivals the VRS 2. And it has Bluetooth 
capability, 32 - 64 GB of internal storage and 
provides propriotory apps to use some parts of 
Twitter and Facebook I would pay a small fortune for it!


Hopefully Humanware or another company will 
improve on the VRS 2 in the very near future.


At 02:39 PM 5/8/2017, you wrote:

Kenni, It does not allow for online downloading of those books,
because its not mainly pushed to the US market and podcast need some
work, but what it can do, it can do very well. What is also the use of
having a player wich will alouw you to search data bases and download
bookshare and such but then they not always commited to the player? Or
they use bad hardware and make you pay fru your neck? This player is
3000 rand and not r7000 rand like the stream currently.

On 08/05/2017, Hamit Campos  wrote:
> What do you mean by report for them? Well obviously they won't do
> nothing about the PTR1 as it technically doesn't exist anymore. But yeah
> the PTR2 maybe. Thing is to get an updated list of cards. Cause the ones
> on the site are the 2006 ones.
>
>
> On 5/7/2017 3:58 AM, Aidan wrote:
>> Perhaps you should report for plextalk and see if they can help you
>> testing.
>>
>> On 06/05/2017, Hamit Campos  wrote:
>>> Who are Andre and Anthony? As for the PTR2 it is epic. I'm just saying
>>> that before 1 buys 1 cause you can still buy 1 if you wish. But before
>>> ya do so I think it's best to borrow 1 from a homy which is the gangsta
>>> word for friend and try some CF cards. See if it doesn't do like the
>>> PTR1. Or maybe it's mi PTR1 that has the issue. Cause like I said mine
>>> has rejected 3 CF cards in a row. That's something like 30 dolars down
>>> the John. I don't know why it's being so dam picky all of the sudden.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/6/2017 8:45 AM, Aidan wrote:
 Andre, Anthony and his team cell them since last year.
 Hamit, you so rite, I would love to try out the ptr2 and I think its
 put together very well, but yes the hardware is a big show stopper,
 and you will be better off with bookport dt from APH if you want to go
 that root. I cannot compare drive of ptn2 with ptn1 as I did not
 experience ptn1, but I think it will be better since one of the
 firmware updates did address issues with the drive.

 On 06/05/2017, André van Deventer  wrote:
> Now where will you get this little player since Neville retired?
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
> Aidan
> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 7:39 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
>
> Well, I think that humanware really like to give us quite crappy
> hardware
> and then we pay fru our nek for what? I love my stream, but I agree
> that
> PlexTalk do a much better job with hardware. The stream wifi chip is
> really
> not that good. I would love to get a milestone, I think I would like
> the
> 212
> as it sfor voice and music mostly, as I have enough players with more
> in
> a
> package.
> I have both ptp1 and ptn2, wich have great speakers as said.
> I just think that PlexTalk should make their devices faster and update
> it
> more, then I can support them 100%. But the player I enjoy a lot now
> is
> the
> evo e 10 from vin-vision. They a china baste company but they really
> do
> great work.
> The player have wifi, and its very strong, and the hardware in general
> is
> very good. It don't have a full keypad though, so you do most things
> with
> the up, down, left and write and enter, but it have the most features
> of
> all.
> Both fm radio and internet radio, podcast ability, recorder, and soon
> will
> hopefully be able to record internet radio also. Five alarms, voice
> memos,
> voice reminders, (similar to the notepad on ptr2) The recorder is
> actually
> so loud when recording from external sorces or radio that you need to
> set
> recording volume to 1 or 2, and the nice thing about it is that if
> something
> is very soft, then you can make it louder to record better.
> Also have noise gate. Not to high quality bitrates, but the most used
> are
> there. It even have time announcements on hour or hafr hour or 15
> minits.
> It
> uses evona tts joei and sally. It have calculator and compus
> bookmarks,

Re: Samsung Galaxy S8 and Audio

[Dane Trethowan]

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is a real little power house without a doubt and 
that's just my observation after less than 12 hours exploring the device.
Obviously I can't go into everything I've found here given that this 
list discusses audio other than to say that Samsung have an obvious 
commitment and everything works as I thought it should.

I've ntoiced a few changes and surprises but nothing bad at all.
If anyone wishes to follow my journey with the S8 and follow me @grtdane 
on Twitter.


On 9/05/2017 11:38 PM, John Gurd wrote:

I saw some good reviews of this phone. If anything could make me jump ship from 
the iPhone maybe this could. I'll be interested to hear how you get on.

John


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: 09 May 2017 11:57
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Samsung Galaxy S8 and Audio

Hi!

These are very first impressions I wish to share with you.

As you'd expect Samsung keep top marks for the sound of the internal speaker 
but the real surprise in audio comes with the supplied high quality AKH 
in-the-ear headset, no doubt the best headset I've ever heard that's come 
supplied with a phone, nice deep base, good crips top and very reasonable 
mid-range.

Not quite as good as some of the higher end cans I have but more than 
reasonable given what they are.

The cable is made from a strong Nylon material so won't break in a hurry.

Voice Assist - the default Samsung Screen Reader for their Galaxy phones
- has had quite an update with more features obvious.

Still setting up the device so will give more details on the audio side of 
things as I explore.





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"Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if you were 
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and Audio

[Dane Trethowan]

Hi!

These are very first impressions I wish to share with you.

As you'd expect Samsung keep top marks for the sound of the internal 
speaker but the real surprise in audio comes with the supplied high 
quality AKH in-the-ear headset, no doubt the best headset I've ever 
heard that's come supplied with a phone, nice deep base, good crips top 
and very reasonable mid-range.


Not quite as good as some of the higher end cans I have but more than 
reasonable given what they are.


The cable is made from a strong Nylon material so won't break in a hurry.

Voice Assist - the default Samsung Screen Reader for their Galaxy phones 
- has had quite an update with more features obvious.


Still setting up the device so will give more details on the audio side 
of things as I explore.




--

**
"Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if you were 
going to live forever"