"For the first time in the history of mankind ...

[supermosey]

This entire premise reminds me of one of those bad American Idol auditions where the singer realllllllllly believes they have the chops.....they just know they are the next big thing...
Then they open their mouths and judges(and the american tv audience) laugh.
I wish you all the best, but don't quit your day job.

[RaySoul]

Originally Posted by Sounddesigner

Interesting product, will keep a eye on it. As far as looks and cost, well it is the first generatiom. Like many big, bulky, ugly and costly products of the past that were first generation this should not be expected to be much different. The developer may have brought this product to the market the best way he could and that's good enough for some. Should he have said forget releasing it if i can't make it fancy-Apple-Tech looking and cheap? If he would've chosen not to release it we would have no step in the right direction. Something is better than nothing at all and could lead to cheaper, prettier, etc high quality portable devices in the future. Let the first step occur if you value quality.

Much of what makes a product too expensive is another product on the market that does exactly the same thing but cheaper priced, if such product does not exist then being one-of-a-kind can command a hefty price. We don't know the development cost for this one-man-show possibly such could be high, and this designer may possibly have a small budget and not be able to buy high quality parts in bulk thus a hefty price tag for his product is needed in such situations since the designer is not Apple.

Personally its over-priced for me but that does not mean the designer does not have the right to price it as he sees fit. It's his product he can sell as he chooses and hostile attacks against him are only unjustified and deserving of consequences. It's strange people get attacked simply for doing nothing but pricing and selling their own products while so much corrupt politicians, corrupt police, crime, etc in the world that people don't put enough energy twards fighting.

No one should be offended simply for selling their products. If better is on the market then why can't people go where better is and why are they so bitter and hateful here? Speak with your wallet and let the market decide the future. Trying hard to get a lynch mob started over nothing does'nt make sense. If a product does'nt interest you move on, that's what i and others do and it works well. CONSTRUCTIVE critisism is fine but some are masking destructive as constructive or act as if their following some moral duty by bashing the OP. I wish the moderators were more involved here.

I really need to stay off certain forums, it's just too unhealthy.


EDITED

Well said. +1

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by GearNerd

Why is this called "Tera-Player" if it only holds ONLY 32 Giga bytes of music? Shouldn´t it be called "Giga-Player"?

Even iPhone has 64GB.

Hi GearNerd,

SDXC cards have to be formatted FAT32 before they can be used in the Tera-Player. We have already tried a 64GB SDXC card in the Tera-Player and it played without any problems.

You may have noticed that the cards can be swapped within a second making the storage capacity virtually unlimited, compared to a device with fixed storage only.

We will further test 64GB and larger cards, and I see no reason that they should not work up to a size of 2 Tera-Bytes per card, which would be able to hold about 6400 CDs full resolution wav ... ouch

Whenever a card size has been tested enough for being included in the specification, you will see it on the Tera-Player.com website.

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by Yair@SoundRadix

Just curious: does it support FLAC/loss-less compression?

Hi Yair,

.wav only.

[Sptz]

Why are some people still taking this seriously?

This is genius. I love the choice of font in the back btw!

[Silver Sonya]

If anyone buys one, please report.

- c

[t_d]

part of the reason this thread may have gotten started on the wrong foot is because of the sort of pompous title.

[3rdeyeKnight]

Question for Chucky-x:

Totally off topic, but I'm curious to know what exactly is that floating in the
cup of your avatar pic?

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by 3rdeyeKnight

Question for Chucky-x:

Totally off topic, but I'm curious to know what exactly is that floating in the
cup of your avatar pic?

Brown sugar, just before it sinks into the coffee

[Chucky-x]

I know that at least someone of you knows someone who knows Neil Young.
Neil Young: Steve Jobs and I were working on new iPod | Music | guardian.co.uk
Rush out and tell him about the Tera-Player ...

[wildpark]

plus 1 here give it a screen like a real pot
and someone will pay 500-600 for it if we can have a first try before buy ?

Originally Posted by Silver Sonya

Charles: Respectfully, if you're going for a high-end market --- which you are, unquestionably --- I suggest you reconsider the aesthetics of your presentation.

It may sound like God, but the feel is off.

You can't ask for that kinda dough and tell me it doesn't matter

This thing may sound lovely, but it looks like you put no consideration into it as a product. If there's anything to be learned from Apple's global ascent, it's that people appreciate beauty in their day to day lives.

Re-design. Work with a great designer and refashion it as a product. You'll thank me later.

- c

[grandaddy]

It may sound good but recommending cheapo headphones doesn't really give much credibility

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by grandaddy

It may sound good but recommending cheapo headphones doesn't really give much credibility

Hi Granddaddy,

During final development of the Tera-Player, I checked a whole wall of headphones in a large electronics store and I was quite shocked by the sheer amount of bad headphones.

Can you imagine my despair, I wanted to give the Tera-Player its final sonic touches, its signature (a standard was needed) and then I went headphone after headphone and they were all so obviously wrong.

As if most headphones today are made to compensate for inferior playback sources.

The Koss Porta-Pro was finally chosen because of its absence of effects, long time production, global availability.

It may not be the very best headphone out there, but for me it is a well working standard, which is further improved by the modification shown on the Tera-Player.com website.

I still use the Koss PP with my Tera-Player every day and enjoy it very much.

However if you would like to suggest a headphone that you consider better, please do so, I would be interested.

Charles

[Danz03]

If the Tera player really sounds as good as you claimed, wouldn't something like Westone 4 or Sennheiser IE80 be more appropriate?

Originally Posted by Chucky-x

I still use the Koss PP with my Tera-Player every day and enjoy it very much.

However if you would like to suggest a headphone that you consider better, please do so, I would be interested.

Charles

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by Danz03

If the Tera player really sounds as good as you claimed, wouldn't something like Westone 4 or Sennheiser IE80 be more appropriate?

Thanks for your suggestions Danz03,

there are Tera-Player owners who use in-ears, but I'm not an in-ear type, tried once but did not feel right for me.

Charles

[Chucky-x]

Originally Posted by Sounds Great

Audio Technica ATH-M50. Not exactly portable but man do they sound good. I often use them with vinyl as well as movie soundtrack duty.

Hi Sounds Great,

okay, they are fullsize, but I have put them on my list

Any suggestions for a lightweight, comfortable, portable on-ear like the Koss Porta-Pro, or is it really the best in this application ?

I mean, for me they sound just great with the Tera-Player, I have listened hundreds of hours with this setup ... and not desired anything else since ...

Charles

[Danz03]

The point of making the Tera-Player small and light is to make it portable, using portable players with huge full-size headphones just seems wrong to me.

Originally Posted by Chucky-x

Thanks for your suggestions Danz03,

there are Tera-Player owners who use in-ears, but I'm not an in-ear type, tried once but did not feel right for me.

Charles

[Night Stalker]

Excellent product........Even better is the web site!!!

Congratulations.

[25ghosts]

If you encode your wav into highest quality aac or mp3, perhaps a bat could hear the difference. The average human cannot.

Besides, the iPhone and iPod play WAV files 24bit... At least back when I was trying it.

I LIKE your design... I really do. Finally something that looks like it can't break.
Still, it could look like the inner thighs of grace kelly and I still wouldn't buy the thing, I got all I need in my iPhone.

[Jorg]

Order placed!

[Chucky-x]

do they like it ?

Headfonia: Dynamics, Orthodynamics, Electrostatics, and In-Ears Headphone Comparisons and Reviews.

[projektk]

Originally Posted by Jorg

Order placed!

Sarcasm?

Sent from my LG-P925 using Gearslutz.com

[projektk]

Ill be honost I would love to own one, just not at that price.

Sent from my LG-P925 using Gearslutz.com

[pan60]

looks like a cool boutique alternative to the mass produced products.
cool!
personally i love the attention to detail quality and service a small manufacture brings to the table!

[javahut]

Now that this is a reality... there's some rather stiff competition in the HD portable DAP world. Granted, this one is not quite as small nor tank like in construction. But it makes up for it in a few/lot of other ways.

iBasso DX100

[Chucky-x]

that's nothing compared to --pOsh FUR-THER® --



polished aluminum, STEALTH and FUR-THER® technology !



-pOsh FUR-THER®

makes Love to you, while you are listening ...



-pOsh FUR-THER®

Extra long hair -> Extra LOVE

[Solidtube]

Is the pink one for Barbie??? It looks obscene!

[rc99]

I think that brushed aluminum instead of black on the main body, and jeweled/polished metal buttons with small black labeling/writing on the body instead of pressure-pads with a construction aesthetic would set off the look more nicely. Instead of thinking 'Apple', make it look like it was made by Rotel, or Cary or Pass Labs or something so that it actually looks like a piece of hi-end audiophile gear, and not just a CF card reader for accessing seismic data or the like. A small blue screen would be nice, too.

[bourian]

Originally Posted by Chucky-x

There's another side to it

You know what,
I think, it is actually really well built and
somehow really out there! Not joking!
How about putting the same technology
in different bodies...?
I don't think anyone has done it before.
Why should we all be the same!?
C'mon d'you wanna tell me we buy the ipods
for their sound and NOT for the status symbol too?!
Hmm...
If your product really is that unique, put it out there
in a unique way and cut the price in three...
;-)

[Depressionman]

Originally Posted by ionian

Wow - don't get so worked up, it's not like you have to buy it! I agree that I think it's overpriced, but to be honest I'd be more insulted by the fact people are telling him how to design it!

He built something and put it out there. If people don't like it or think it's expensive, then they don't have to buy it!

But for people to tell him he designed it wrong, or how to design it especially since the people telling him haven't designed or built anything of note and probably aren't capable of doing so is what I find damn nervy!

But gearslutz is the place where I take the posts from the pimps with a grain of salt and posts from the members with an even bigger grain of salt. Even my post. Feel free to take it with a grain of salt.

Regards,
Frank

You are right.People after Facebook think they can dictate anyone anything.