eq72521 Wrote: > .... the Rio Karma. The latter is discontinued and from what I've been > able to tell has some hardware issues that have caused an inordinate > number to malfunction and/or stop working. This isn't going to help the Original Poster (who appears to want a low-capacity flash player running off AAA or AA batteries), but I'd just like to say that my Rio Karma has never given any trouble. As far as I can tell from reading various audio forums, the reports of hard disk failure have been blown out of proportion, and the other failures (mainly the scroll wheel breaking) are typically due to user abuse.
The Rio Karma is the "geek's DAP", and it strikes me that it is the natural DAP for the sort of person who is attracted to the Squeezebox. Despite the design being over 2 years old, it's arguably still the best DAP that was ever made. It supports FLAC and OGG as well as MP3 (although given that it's only 20GB, which kind of rules out FLAC, and OGG decoding eats up battery time, in practice you're best off sticking with MP3). It's a crying shame that the iPod juggernaut killed Rio. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18910 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
