Dean, Do you have any thoughts as to whether this is accomplished through hardware or software? If its just software perhaps we can hope for improvement soon. Frank -----Original Message----- From: ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dean Martineau Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:44 PM To: ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: PT pocket playback playback Unfortunately, as others have stated, speech compression is poor. This is terribly unfortunate, because this is a nice machine, a very good recorder, and well-designed externally. But it achieves its speech compression by clipping the phonemes from the sound file. At speeds which I could theoretically listen with understanding, that is, the stream is playing at a speed which, with decent speech compression, I could understand, the PTP1 is unusable. Dean -----Original Message----- From: ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Cuta Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:30 PM To: ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: PT pocket playback playback All, I did some music recording and playback testing over the weekend and most of my impressions of playback quality are very favorable. (more on the results later) Yes, there is an analog to digital converter and several levels of amplification between the source digital signal and your phones and any one of them could be of poor quality. At one time it was important to watch the distortion and frequency response specs of this kind of equipment to detect cheap parts or poor design. However, , although it is still possible to cut corners, the situation is changing. Remember, our industry standard is currently a $50 player the Ipod. And it does a pretty fair job. At some point that we are rapidly approaching, unless your player comes in a cracker jack box or a MacDonald's happy meal the playback quality will be pretty good. If the total playback system comes on a standard chip that only costs a couple of dollars it just makes no sense to make compromises. I made tests with my Koss porto pro, pioneer px100 and a $200 set of Sony studio headphones and all 3 machines, the PTR1 the PTR2 and the PTP1 performed very well playing back the wave files that I was using to make my tests. Frank Cuta -----Original Message----- From: ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:18 AM To: ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: *Possible SPAM* Re: PT Pocket. The quality of the amplifier built into the machine certainly makes a difference whether you use good quality headphones or not. Things like distortion, frequency response etc. One of the things I would like to have had on the ptr2 is a proper line out socket. -----Original Message----- From: ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ptr1-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Parr Sent: 19 December 2008 07:05 PM To: ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: *Possible SPAM* Re: PT Pocket.our The music is digital, what would be the difference in players besides head phones. Did you say the pocket does not tell you in hours and minutes how much recording time is available. That is one of the things I really like about the p t r 1 and 2. Phil Parr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- To leave the list at any time, please write to <ptr1-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with unsubscribe ptr1-users in the subject or the body. The list home page is at <//www.freelists.org/list/ptr1-users/>. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19 - Release Date: 2008/12/17 12:00 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19 - Release Date: 2008/12/17 12:00 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- To leave the list at any time, please write to <ptr1-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with unsubscribe ptr1-users in the subject or the body. The list home page is at <//www.freelists.org/list/ptr1-users/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- To leave the list at any time, please write to <ptr1-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with unsubscribe ptr1-users in the subject or the body. The list home page is at <//www.freelists.org/list/ptr1-users/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- To leave the list at any time, please write to <ptr1-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with unsubscribe ptr1-users in the subject or the body. The list home page is at <//www.freelists.org/list/ptr1-users/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the list at any time, please write to <ptr1-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with unsubscribe ptr1-users in the subject or the body. The list home page is at <//www.freelists.org/list/ptr1-users/>.