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Here is a mini independent review from me on the Cowon DAB D2 16GB PMP. The reason I brought this is because of my switch to open source formats such as Ogg and Flac. After around 2 days of research on existing portable players that can play Flac and Ogg, I’ve found the Cowon D2 ticked all the boxes plus a bit more!

The Cowon D2 is said to be one of the PMP that is amongst the top in sound quality. It features a lot of arrays of sound adjustment features and indeed, when I started loading up Flac files up on the D2 and listening it on my Sennheise PXC 450.

The sound quality is simply superb for such a small device. Definitely better than my 2nd generation Nano which I’ll be putting it up for sale soon.

Not only is the sound quality good on the D2, with the top of the range model featuring 16GB of space in a tiny device along with external expansion via SDHC cards. It is definitely the most suitable player to get to listening to lossless audio on. Having done a bit of research, I’ve found that this device has already been out in the market for a year.

A new revision is widely expected within this year. Having said that, if I were you I wouldn’t wait for the next revision, as who knows whether Cowon can repeat the success of the D2. As far as I’m concerned, D2 does exactly what I need with no compromise.

Not even on battery life. With up to 52 hours of battery life. Compared to the 14 hours on my iPod.

It’s got to be said however the only disappointing thing is that the DAB feature is a bit of a failure. The reception is not great, in fact, it apparently does not have any antenna and it relies on the audio cable to improve reception. DAB simply will not work well indoors. If you put it in your car, I’m sure it’ll work well. But don’t think that you can listen to DAB in the comfort in your home without being next to the window.

So my advice would be definitely get the D2 if you’re looking for a good player with excellent sound quality that can double up as a media player when you really want it. But save yourself a large portion by not getting the DAB version.

Cowon, nice try to be the first to give DAB on a PMP, but unfortunately without an antenna this feature is really hopeless most of the time.

/Ronald over and out.

My house has been invaded by bees. They appear to be making a new nest somewhere between my roof and my bedroom. I can hear them really loud and clear through the walls. I believe they’re right on the other side of the plaster.

I can’t tell which bee they are. That’s really what I’m worried about. As I’m lead to believe honeybees do not burrow through wood, but there are ones that does. The constant noise coming from next to my bed sounds as though they’re constantly digging away at the wood. Though it very could just be a lot of bees walking around the wall and the hive that is making that sound….*fingers cross*

I can see them from outside the window, but can’t tell really. They’re quite small and they’re definitely not wasps as they don’t appear to be brightly coloured so I think they’re honey bees.

*sigh*… why did the bees picked my house… or better yet… in a wall next to my bed! Now I’m not gonna be able to sleep there. Got to get a beekeeper/pest control guy to come and verify. I think in the end even if they’re honey bees they have to go cause it’s causing me no end of pain.

I’ve been doing some search on this before I actually took the plunge to use sIFR text on my blog headings and it seems to suggest that google will index them.

However!!! If you search “pecl mac osx php install” my blog is on page 2 of results and it points directly to the index page. However no where in the results is there a link to the actual post with the title as the heading! Which would’ve gain much higher recognition using those keyword search.

Therefore I can conclude that google is not indexing my sIFR’s “hidden” title and link.