Glacier sound quality

[kamoon]

I recently bought Glacier 4GB and was very disappointed with it's sound quality.
It has constant hiss and cracks. They're almost inaudible if listened with high volume but when listening at low volume you can easily hear it and it sounds very annoying... making it practically impossible to listen to the music with low volumes.

It drives me nuts that in the supposedly quiet parts of music/movie there's this constant noise.

I have tried with several different earphones.

Is it the same with all the Glaciers or should I ask for a replacement?
Do you hear constant noise with low volume (<10) ?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

The Glacier uses an older Actions chipset, which has this background noise. It's caused by the LCD backlight, configuring it to turn off after a while (if it's the standard Actions menu you can do it in Settings -> DarkMode) will minimize this background noise when listening to music.

For movies there's not much to do unfortunately.

You may try putting the player in the freezer for a couple days (seriously, but put a piece of paper under it as the metal will stick to the freezer!) and then letting it return to room temperature very slowly before using it again (wrap it in a blanket and put it in the coldest corner of your house).

It may seem crazy, but people have reported much less background noise and better sound quality after doing this. On my old Actions player the sound quality wasn't significantly better, but all that annoying background noise, "hiss and cracks" was gone. This method has been discussed a lot in the MyMPxPlayer.org forum, and none of those which said it's impossible for it to work came up with any proof. :P

It's your call if you try "Operation Big Freeze" or just live with the noise.

PS. This won't void your warranty.

[devilsmaster]

It may sounds strange to you but can you please tell me what is glacier as i dont know anything about that please tell me about that.

[lattesurf]

devilsmaster , the "Glacier" is just a model name frequently used by uxcell as a sort of model branding. Internally it is the same as many other "MP4" players.

[kamoon]

Thank you, Th3_uN1Qu3, for your answers

I think I will try the "Operation Big Freeze" someday... eventhough it sounds pretty crazy

[kamoon]

Freezin it didn't have an effect at all.
The noise is still there, as strong as ever. Piece of crap.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Originally Posted by kamoon";p=&quot

Freezin it didn't have an effect at all.
The noise is still there, as strong as ever. Piece of crap.

That's the risk involved when buying this kind of players. I'm sorry to hear that, maybe you should just ditch it and get a better one.