Is the player smaller then the Archos? The Archos recorder is big for an MP3 player. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:04 PM Subject: iRiver H340 vs. H140
I'll describe the differences in this message. Anybody who wants to know, what the H140 is, can listen to my Main Menu review of the iRiver H100, which is the ten gigabyte version of the H140. I think that nearly everybody, who likes the 140 will be able to work with the 340, but there are some important differences. Because the 340 has a color display, it needs more power, therefore the display is turned off after a certain amount of time automatically. If one presses a button on the player while the display is off, nothing happens, at least if one can't see the display. It's just turned on in that case. To activate the desired function, one has to press the button again. This is a bit irritating, but I think I can live with that. One could set the display to always stay on, but I don't know, how much quicker the battery then would be flattened. I decided to leave the setting as it is, at least for the moment. When the player is used with the AC adapter and when it is off, pressing the play button once won't always turn it on. The display can proberbly be activated when the player is off and used with the AC adapter, so one has to press play twice to actually turn the iRiver on in that case. When one just activates the display, the player doesn't beep. Only when a function is executed, a beep can be heard. That's useful. The 340 has two usb ports on its bottom side. That's because it supports USB on the go, which PacMate users will already know. I've heard that the U. S. version of the 340 doesn't support this, but it will proberbly nevertheless have two USB ports. The right one should be used to connect the player to a PC. When one does that, the hard disk turns off and no PC connection is established. Reason: The player switches to USB charge mode. To establish the connection, one just presses the play button. The H340 then switches itself on again and is available as an external hard disk. I switched off USB charging on my player via the menu system, for which I needed sighted help. With the H140, one could switch to the tuner by pressing and holding the play button. On the H340, this has to be done via a second menu. One presses and holds record, then right, then navi to confirm. Bingo, the radio can be heard. To go back to the player mode, press and hold record, then left, then navi, the disk motor can be heard, and one is back in music mode. To record, one also uses the second menu. One just presses right twice, when one is in music player mode, when one then presses navi to confirm, one is in record standby mode. And if voice monitor is set to on (not the default), one can hear the internal mic of the player. To switch recording source, one presses the Repeat a-b button and can then switch between the sources with left and right, one immediately hears the new source. So if I've connected an external mic, I can hear it immediatley, after I selected ext mic as a source. <*** Michael Lang ***> _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
