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Technology Stocks : Diamond Multimedia -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis who wrote (4134)	3/1/1999 2:36:00 AM
From: Binx Bolling	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

=== Seidman's Online Insider - Vol. 6, Issue 3 < onlineinsider.com > ===================================================================== Copyright (C) 1999 Robert Seidman. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for noncommercial purposes as long as attribution is given. Revisiting MP3 ============== Now that DSL is installed I have over 500 MP3s! Before any record company executives start freaking out I made most of them myself. Though I did download quite a few after the DSL got installed, it was all stuff I actually had bought anyway. I've definitely got the MP3 bug in a big way though. I finally broke down and bought the Diamond Multimedia Rio player < diamondmm.com. A little pricey still at around $200, but I expect there will be new versions/price cuts coming soon. The fidelity is excellent and it's tiny (VERY portable). My only complaints have to do with memory and volume. While it claims 60 minutes of music, it only has 32MB of memory. Though you could record MP3s with lower fidelity, the standard close to CD quality 128KBIT/second will only provide about 30 minutes of music or around 8 songs (unless it's older stuff where the songs are between 2-3 minutes). You can buy additional memory, but hopefully memory prices will fall more and you'll see more memory in future versions. I think an hour standard with an additional hour back-up memory card would be more optimal (about 32 songs in total). My other complaint is that sometimes I like to listen to music really loud, and while some MP3s can get loud enough for me, others are somewhat lacking. This doesn't happen on my PC where I can crank the volume to taste. That said, I'm very happy with it. So happy I went to the local Radio Shack and got one of those converters that hook up to the portable CD players and plug into your car cassette player, allowing you to play music from the Rio via your car stereo. It worked beautifully.