Daily Archives: January 9, 2004

After my many tribulations with the Nomad Jukebox 3, I’ve thrown in the towel. The new firmware allows the player to boot, however the volume has the annoying tendency to jump to 17 every time the player changes tracks. In a player like the NJB3, that’s alot of sound, and it’s quite jarring. On top of that, the player seems to be over-heating on me, which is certainly not an encouraging sign. Sending it back to Creative to wait three months and pay $200US for an unguaranteed repair just isn’t an option, so come New Year, I decided to jump ship to the competition.After doing alot of research, I narrowed my choices down to two players: the Rio Karma and the iRiver ihp-120. Both support Ogg Vorbis, which is a big plus, and the Karma has the nifty capability to function as a network device, but it doesn’t have any recording capability and lacks a remote.

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