@black_rectangle wrote:
People like mp3Geek and Arranger have done serious testing and discovered a consistent defect. Other cheap mp3 players don’t have that defect. It is really now up to SanDisk to remedy it. mp3’s may never be “accurate” in reproducing all the nuances of timbre, but pitch and timing should be precise.
No one from SanDisk has yet responded to this serious problem. Now’s the time. Hello?
The level of precision they are demanding doesn’t exist in consumer electronics. The average consumers don’t notice or care if their song is 1 or 2 seconds longer, or 20 cents below pitch. 20 cents to them is two dimes.
As for it being “serious testing”, they’ve only tested their own players, and only Sandisk ones, so they can’t say every Sandisk player is “defective”. Since a lot of other brands of players are based on the same or similar chips, it stands to reason they would all have the same “level of precision”.
They need to get over this, and themselves, and move on.
