Not too sure about recording quality as such yet since haven't tried it out too much as of yet, and the primary issue there would be that it can only use it's own internal built in microphone, but you can change all sorts ofsettings relating to audio quality, KBPs, KHz ranges etc., and in terms of audio
playback quality, it definitely seems pretty decent. Only thing have sort of noticed is that on my creative zenstone, where I dropped the MP3 files to 64kbps to save file size, since you couldn't hear differences unless going below that level, on this one, depending on actual volume output, you can slightly hear that these files could be slightly better quality, but this is now just due to me just having copied the collection of zenstone files over to it, so will still have to maybe put together a form of comparison collection like did last time, but, definitely pretty good sound output if I play it through either decent speakers, or decent headphones. Was now just testing it using my portable guitar amp thing, that would let me sit outdoors and play audio for people without actual power supplies, and definitely not too bad sound output quality. The total price, including actual price, shipping and import duties came to around R750 - and if I look at a sort of local shopping comparison website, it seems the general price for the same unit, but standard and not rockboxed/talking this side comes to around R1200 or thereabouts. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- From: "Neville Clarence" <neville@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "National Accessibility Portal mailing list with topics focusedonaccessibility for users with visual disabilities." <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [Blind] Sansa E260 multimedia player - with rockbox on it toget itto talk
Very interesting Jacob. How do you rate the recording and music playback quality? What was the final total cost. Kind regards Neville N.J. Clarence Neville Clarence Technologies (Pty) Ltd. PBX: +27 (0)12 452-0380 or Mobile: +27 (0)82 669-0663 neville@xxxxxxxxxxx----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "NAPSA Blind" <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:03 AM Subject: [Blind] Sansa E260 multimedia player - with rockbox on it to get itto talkI this week got hold of my Sansa E260 multimedia PDA via: http://www.accessibleelectronics.com/ While it took a bit of time to arrive via the united states postal service, the pricing worked out pretty decent, and while still need to get a bit more used to using all of it, I will just say am quite impressed. Basically, it can play audio and video files, and either manually, or automatically create playback bookmarks for you, can do external audio recording using it's own built in microphone, and also has an FM radio built into it, that can also be recorded to an MP3 file if you want. Will also just say that the sort of three initial things that I like about it are the fact that it can tell you the battery levels, can read you the file names etc., and the bookmarking features, which mean that in a large file you could come back and carry on listening to it from where you were quite easily. I still have to get used to all of the menu systems, it's version of a context menu, it's virtual keyboard that gets used for renaming files and labelling FM radio presets and playlists etc., but definitely a very impressive/useful gadget, and FWIW, apart from audio file formats, and the built in radio, and recording functionality, it can also play some video file formats, and I think display bitmap pictures. Lastly, apart from the fact that it took over a month to get here partly due to festive season postal activity etc., and while a form of guarantee procedure wouldn't be best since bought it from supplier in the USA, I paid quite a bit less for the upgraded/rockboxed version than they seem to go for standard here. The mailing list related to use of the rockboxed version of this player is here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RockboxedSansaTalkingMP3Players/ Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4776 (20100115) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Blind mailing list Blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.napsa.org.za/mailman/listinfo/blind_______________________________________________ Blind mailing list Blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.napsa.org.za/mailman/listinfo/blind __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4776 (20100115) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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