http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/ Engadget Comments for Venzero announces Venzero One http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/
After getting some units out there, they will need to rock some viral marketing because this thing looks like it definitely deserves a second look. Build quality, judging by the pictures, looks top class and the site was nicely designed, as well.

I am crossing my fingers and hoping, because if this thing gets positive reviews, I will definitely fork it out. The USB in/out is a feature I have been longing for...and the black and green color scheme looks very classy.

As I stated...I am hoping they can deliver.]]>Apr 20th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/
I don't yet have a MP3 player (being a composer I hear enough music on a daily basis, but I am tempted tho), but seeing that 'spec' really made me think twice. 90dB is just a lot of noise and a little signal in my (not so humble) opinion. Add to that the compression/encoding and the perceived quality would be even lower. Depressing.
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but the battery life is poor at 12 hours, i mean what is the point of these stupendous features when u have no juice left to run even the simplest of them ?]]>Apr 20th 2006 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2006 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/
I'm not sure all these quoted SNR ratios are worth fussing over when we're talking portable consumer audio products. I'd hate for manufactures to start competing for the best SNR on paper, only to put actual audio quality a second priority. Remember there's a lot more to making a player sound good and at the end of the day this is to be used on the move where background noise would almost certainly be higher than device noise.]]>Apr 21st 2006 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 21st 2006 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/
Guys, please consider the technical reality before posting stuff like "lots of noise" or "Creative is approaching 97 dB". Sorry to say so, but that is nonsense.
Any MP3, OGG, WMA, Ape or whatever is 16 Bit. The theretical maximum dynamic range for 16 Bit is 96 dB, which in reality is impossible to reach, there simply is no analog electronic without noise. The closer they get to these 96 dB, the better the job the engineer has done. Have a look at CD-Players, even High-End ones. YouŽll find most are having a SNR below 90 dB. So the venzero ONEŽs value is actually quite good.
The only way to get better SNR is to use 24 Bit, but there is now MP3-player out there with 24 Bit DACs.]]>Apr 21st 2006 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 21st 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/The way the RSS works is that the feed gets updated every time you connect the player to your computer. Even so, it's a nice thought, but there are several programs that enable this sort of feature with an iPod by putting feeds in the "notes" section.

I really love the looks of this player. It's seems like the first one I've seen since 2001 which goes in a separate direction from the iPod. Having said that, it's still a step down from my 10GB 3G iPod, which I've filled, in terms of storage.]]>Apr 22nd 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/If you're travelling and you have no access to a computer, you won't be able to catch up on the latest RSS newsfeeds.
It's alright, but Picky Me prefers different. ]]>Apr 23rd 2006 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/
"With Venzero ONE, you can get[....]a copy of a friend's new CD off their laptop.."

Sounds like they're on my side of the DRM battle, but I can't imagine that lends itself to a litigation-free future for the company]]>Apr 25th 2006 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 28th 2006 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Jun 22nd 2006 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/venzero-announces-venzero-one/Apr 20th 2007 10:49AM