DavidLai
New Head-Fier
Hi, my name is David, a 3rd-year doctoral piano student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music who happens to be completely blind. My portable devices are the Sony NWZ-A27 and the Sennheiser Momentum 4 headphones. Nice to meet you all!
Recently, the 9-year-old WM cable for the player finally broke, and I bought a new cable from Amazon. I was surprised they even can be found there. However, I know that since this player is old technology, there will come a day when I need to look for a replacement.
What I like about the A27 is its built-in 64GB storage, an all-button interface, and long battery life. I could use the expanded SD card and manage 2 separate music libraries, one on device, one on the card. As long as I memorize the bnumber of button presses, I can navigate the menu system and choose the music I want to listen to. With support for gapless and lossless playback, my FLAC music libraries have the perfect "mobile home."
Now, I'm looking for a replacement player. I'm looking for something as reliable as the A27, with big built-in storage, long battery life, and an all-button interface. Of course, something with text-to-speech was also good, but I don't want to make the search too small. Unfortunately, all my searches turned out a bit frustrating.
In the accessibility department, the Victor Reader Stream III sounds good, but with its 15-hour battery life and other bonus features that I don't need to use, it's basically a jack of all trades, master of few, if not none. If I can't find a better replacement, I'll just graduate to that machine.
But I'm not giving up on my search, which is why I've turned to the collective knowledge of this forum. Thank you for reading this long post, and hope what I say here makes sense. Please help me find a good replacement digital audio player. Thank you!
David
Recently, the 9-year-old WM cable for the player finally broke, and I bought a new cable from Amazon. I was surprised they even can be found there. However, I know that since this player is old technology, there will come a day when I need to look for a replacement.
What I like about the A27 is its built-in 64GB storage, an all-button interface, and long battery life. I could use the expanded SD card and manage 2 separate music libraries, one on device, one on the card. As long as I memorize the bnumber of button presses, I can navigate the menu system and choose the music I want to listen to. With support for gapless and lossless playback, my FLAC music libraries have the perfect "mobile home."
Now, I'm looking for a replacement player. I'm looking for something as reliable as the A27, with big built-in storage, long battery life, and an all-button interface. Of course, something with text-to-speech was also good, but I don't want to make the search too small. Unfortunately, all my searches turned out a bit frustrating.
In the accessibility department, the Victor Reader Stream III sounds good, but with its 15-hour battery life and other bonus features that I don't need to use, it's basically a jack of all trades, master of few, if not none. If I can't find a better replacement, I'll just graduate to that machine.
But I'm not giving up on my search, which is why I've turned to the collective knowledge of this forum. Thank you for reading this long post, and hope what I say here makes sense. Please help me find a good replacement digital audio player. Thank you!
David