definetely will get stash but like a few last seasons i ll quit D3 after a month or less.
i cant keep up with most of players about paragons. that means i dont have any chance to compete for leaderboards. after a month discovering new things and having some fun i ll quit d3 till next season.
Being an "audiophile" myself I can give you a couple of advices about portative players. Sure a good stand-alone player beats a smartphone in the field of sound quality, but you should ask yourself, where and how will you listen to the music?
1) You said about many records you have - are they on CDs or Vinyl LPs? Or SuperAudio CDs, maybe? Because those expensive Hi-Res players will only give you sensible advantage if you use a very high-quality source. Standard CD flacs encoded in 16bit/44.1kHz will not give you better performane if you play them in a Hi-Res player or even upsample them to 24bit/192kHz - you just cannot generate the information that isn't in the source. Only digitalized LPs and originally Hi-Res SACDs can give you something more.
2) What headphones do you have? Acquiring better headphones can result in much better performance than a new player. With cheap headphones you will not be able to discerm MP3 320 kbps from flac. I'd recommend something like Audio-Technica ATH-m40x or Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO if you want to get all the minor details from lossless-encoded tracks. Only upper-class headphones like Denon AH-D600 or Sennheiser HD650 can give you difference between usual CD and Hi-Res record or vinyl LP.
3) You re talking about portative player - so, I suppose, you're gonna use it in the street, not in the quiet room. There are no headphones that are able to completely eliminate the noise from outside (even with active noise cancelling) and this noise won't allow you to hear the minor music details.
TL:DR
If you're not a crazy audiophile who wants to spend a lot of money on golden cables and just want to lislen to music grabbed from CDs - choose the cheap one and don't bother with Hi-Res. However, I would recommend you to look at Cowon players, especially Cowon X9 - their sound is better than Sony and they have more options and effects (if you like crazy bass, for example). If you want to listen to the music with best possible quality - buy expensive Hi-Res player, but be prepared to spend a lot of additional money on good headphones.
i have mostly 16bit flacs. but have some SaCDs too.
i ll use it mostly in bus. not loudy as streets i think.
my preferred device is zx100 with sony XBA-Z5 headphones. also have Fiio E6 amp.
ofcourse there is better options then sony players but i think other devices cost me even more. for long years i trust sony's quality and its just enough for me. example my walkman still works that i bought at 98. and my discman works just fine over 15yrs old.
im not an ''audiophile'' for sure but i want to listen better sound with an easy portable setup.
Why not a smartphone? Some of them must have good sound quality... since your budget seems to be decent, i don't see why you'd want a standalone mp3 player.
best phone ever build in the world cannot be as good as a hi-res music player. but ofcourse many smarthphones sounds good. but im using my phone too much at work. than im sure that i ll have battery problems. thats why i need a standalone mp3 player. that 3 players i said there have good battery performance. 30 to 70 hours of high quality music playing with single charge.
i dont have a word to seasonal rewards. if u play season and u get rewards for it .
but a stash tab for playing season is just seems unfair. i got 2 stash character already. need more stash badly as always.after every new content patch stash issue getting bigger.
Well isn't it nice that now after every content patch you'll get more stash space?
first u must play season to get it.
second u already paid 2 games money to Blizz and they r not buying any hardware for servers.
Note: they can even say that '' we nerfed WW Barb because it slowing down servers'' . they r not trying to make servers better .
You're obviously the master of computing and an expert in Blizzard's networking. Please offer your help to Blizzard so you can weave your magic to make all the lag go away
mate dont u follow Blue posts or other news or even blizzcon news ?
there is blue posts and many talks about that stash space is an issue and its all about server capability. they cant give more stash directly , they need some server improvements for this. thats what they say.
at blizzcon wyatt cheng said that lag issue is because of servers.
and as u can see at patch notes they said '' WW barb nerfed because it makes LAG''
u dont need to be expert to see whats happening.
i dont have a word to seasonal rewards. if u play season and u get rewards for it .
but a stash tab for playing season is just seems unfair. i got 2 stash character already. need more stash badly as always.after every new content patch stash issue getting bigger.
Well isn't it nice that now after every content patch you'll get more stash space?
first u must play season to get it.
second u already paid 2 games money to Blizz and they r not buying any hardware for servers.
Note: they can even say that '' we nerfed WW Barb because it slowing down servers'' . they r not trying to make servers better .
i dont have a word to seasonal rewards. if u play season and u get rewards for it .
but a stash tab for playing season is just seems unfair. i got 2 stash character already. need more stash badly as always.after every new content patch stash issue getting bigger.
so far i understand they give 5 more stash tab for buying but also u got chance to get extra 1 for playing season journey. i dont mind season only legs or cosmetic rewards but that stash tab issue includes non season too.
i just watched Alkaizer playing Gr75 and seems like no lag issue at US servers. only EU has this issue then ?
i dont understand what devs thinking about making a huge patch and dont think about servers can handle this or not.
i ll be really diasppointed if i cant play a season long ...
He's literally postponing his solo pushes at the moment due to lag, and if you watch his earlier GR pushes he ends up having to pause-rend-pause-rend-pause-rend-pause-rend-pause-rend all the time. The lag is not an EU issue, it's a calculations per second issue on their servers regardless of region.
And that's how it's been since vanilla release, as soon as the calculations per second reach a critical point in this game, whether you make that high number of calculations from density, dots, area dmg, or a combination, you name it, the game lags out, regardless of the size of the damage numbers.
It just so happens that in 2.3 they removed a lot of snapshotting, introduced a lot of dot specs, and probably 5 other things that all increased the number of calculations per second, and now we're hitting that old limit again.
mate i watched his GR75 not old tries. he is not pausing game. seems like not having a problem.
"and NOW rend"? youre obviously pretty far behind in progression if ure just now high enough to notice that rend lags as fuck. the rend lag was already there right from the start just as helltooth. u just need a better gear than a wd to make it lag.
mate i cleared 60 solo at early season with rend build. i didnt saw any lag issue at that time. but now game just freezes. i just saw that im dead after that lag happens.
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they just removed barb from game after first season barbs dominated solo ladder.
and still there is no improvements ...
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definetely will get stash but like a few last seasons i ll quit D3 after a month or less.
i cant keep up with most of players about paragons. that means i dont have any chance to compete for leaderboards. after a month discovering new things and having some fun i ll quit d3 till next season.
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i ll use it mostly in bus. not loudy as streets i think.
my preferred device is zx100 with sony XBA-Z5 headphones. also have Fiio E6 amp.
ofcourse there is better options then sony players but i think other devices cost me even more. for long years i trust sony's quality and its just enough for me. example my walkman still works that i bought at 98. and my discman works just fine over 15yrs old.
im not an ''audiophile'' for sure but i want to listen better sound with an easy portable setup.
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im using my mp3 player 3-4 hours a day. its older then 10 years now and need to be changed.
i like new sony hi-res players but im very confused. price range changes 150$ to 800$.
should i buy nw zx2 or zx100 about 800$ or a15 for 150$.
i got tons of albums that i can create hi-res music files. also has many flac albums on my pc.
any advice about price/performance pls.
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there is blue posts and many talks about that stash space is an issue and its all about server capability. they cant give more stash directly , they need some server improvements for this. thats what they say.
at blizzcon wyatt cheng said that lag issue is because of servers.
and as u can see at patch notes they said '' WW barb nerfed because it makes LAG''
u dont need to be expert to see whats happening.
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first u must play season to get it.
second u already paid 2 games money to Blizz and they r not buying any hardware for servers.
Note: they can even say that '' we nerfed WW Barb because it slowing down servers'' . they r not trying to make servers better .
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i dont have a word to seasonal rewards. if u play season and u get rewards for it .
but a stash tab for playing season is just seems unfair. i got 2 stash character already. need more stash badly as always.after every new content patch stash issue getting bigger.
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so far i understand they give 5 more stash tab for buying but also u got chance to get extra 1 for playing season journey. i dont mind season only legs or cosmetic rewards but that stash tab issue includes non season too.
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i just watched Alkaizer playing Gr75 and seems like no lag issue at US servers. only EU has this issue then ?
i dont understand what devs thinking about making a huge patch and dont think about servers can handle this or not.
i ll be really diasppointed if i cant play a season long ...
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but now cant playable .
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im playing 2man group with Rend Barb and Heal Monk and my ping goes to 1500s.
i have around 70fps with my 4gb graphic card.