How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free $

clackers91 · #31 (**permalink**) 12th Mar 2007, 2:13 am

i tried to get my glacier to work every way possible but still the same blank screen :wink:

slept over mates last night i got him to start his Ipod Nano Remastered and i can say it improves both the earphones and the ipod itself. there is less distortion all around and especially at high levels, it sounds much "cleaner" and sorta more life like. it seemed to effect the mid-range to hi-range sounds. i was quiet impressed with it and i cant wait for my BH and FMP to be done =D.

Sound quality of my BH (internal speaker) is alot better at high levels, not as much crackling. it sounds like it isnt just a tweeter =P. the LCD is ever so slightly clearer if you look really hard. it hasnt affected the camera but i haven't compared propperly on the computer. i didnt test the cheap headphones but the difference in the internal speaker has me thinking...

will report back with updates i decided to try one more cycle with the BH to see what happens

thanks for this michiganjfrog

clackers91 · #32 (**permalink**) 12th Mar 2007, 2:17 am

also can you people stop flaming saying it wont do anything or it will kill it UNLESS you did it to your player and it did nothing to your player or broke it.

michiganjfrog · #33 (**permalink**) 13th Mar 2007, 3:40 am

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also can you people stop flaming saying it wont do anything or it will kill it UNLESS you did it to your player and it did nothing to your player or broke it.

Amen to that! So... I'm not 100% sure I get this, your friend's Nano went thru the process? it sounds like it by what you described of the sound. Hmm... I don't know if that counts for an extra tweak, since you didnt do yours yet....

Hotboxx · #34 (**permalink**) 13th Mar 2007, 4:16 am

So, as promised, here are the results after I did the "cryogenic" threathment to my very very very very cheap Uxcell SD card mp3 player.

I followed the instruction, and now, 2 days later I can say that the sound quality improved. There is much more detail in the music and it sounds more crispy. Even with this low-end mp3 player the sound is extremely good.

I have now in the freezer my Sandisk SDMX 1gb mp3 player. That little devil delivered allready very good sound quality, and after the threathment I will give more test results.

clackers91 · #35 (**permalink**) 14th Mar 2007, 11:03 pm

ALL i have to say is WOW. i finely finished with my FMP 1.8. the generic cheap uxcell earphones sound almost good =p... there is more "soul" in them and they dont sound so "im in the bathroom". although they dont sound like some $20 - $40 earphones they are 100% better quality then before.

My FMP with Ipod earphones (which i also froze) and well.... im amazed. everything is crisp and cleaner. kinda sounds like the music is going through some sorta audio filter.sounds awesome no distortion, clean and basically sounds like much more expensive set of earphones and media player.

my Black Hawk as posted sounds much better... BUT i had a problem getting the "Webcam" feature to work on multiple computers. i really didnt care as i bought it for music and playing video's. i discovered that when trying to play ANY WMA file at ANY bitrate it would stutter with rock songs (especially bassie songs). thus i have requested a full refund on it

michiganjfrog · #36 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 8:50 am

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ALL i have to say is WOW. i finely finished with my FMP 1.8. the generic cheap uxcell earphones sound almost good =p... there is more "soul" in them and they dont sound so "im in the bathroom". although they dont sound like some $20 - $40 earphones they are 100% better quality then before.

My FMP with Ipod earphones (which i also froze) and well.... im amazed. everything is crisp and cleaner. kinda sounds like the music is going through some sorta audio filter.sounds awesome no distortion, clean and basically sounds like much more expensive set of earphones and media player.

my Black Hawk as posted sounds much better... BUT i had a problem getting the "Webcam" feature to work on multiple computers. i really didnt care as i bought it for music and playing video's. i discovered that when trying to play ANY WMA file at ANY bitrate it would stutter with rock songs (especially bassie songs). thus i have requested a full refund on it

Your post-freeze experiences with the cheap UXCell headphones that comes with the player reminds me very much of mine. I think I mentioned at the beginning of this thread how I could still hear and appreciate the differences even on the cheap 50 cent earphones that came with the Glacier, and I was referring to the "soul" of the music coming through better, despite it being hard to pick out more superficial things like bass/treble with these kind of low-res earphones.

As a long time audiophile and participant in audio discussion groups across the net, I find that audio enthusiasts can basically be divided into two camps: doers (empiricists), and thinkers (rationalists). The doers tend to have better sounding systems. I find it interesting to find the very same parallels in the mp4 enthusiast community.

You said the LCD was clearer on your BH. Indeed, if I haven't mentioned it, if any of my techniques work on sound, they will work to improve video as well. The only thing is, its not as easy for people to notice video improvements as it is for audio (even audio improvements escapes a lot of people!). I have a tweaked-up version of my FMP. Since I have a second FMP, I was able to compared this to the untweaked FMP. Indeed, I could see differences in the video. Colors and constrasts were better. I checked out the Black Hawk model. I can see this player can do a heck of a lot of things. However, WMV isn't listed as one of them, at least not in the official specs that I can see. So I don't know if you have a case for a return based on that.

Hotboxx · #37 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 9:12 am

I did the freezer threatment on my Sandisk SDMX1 mp3 player, and again, the sound quality improved a LOT. Thank you for the good advice.............but I am scared to tell my friends LOL.

michiganjfrog · #38 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 11:14 am

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I did the freezer threatment on my Sandisk SDMX1 mp3 player, and again, the sound quality improved a LOT. Thank you for the good advice.............

Well thanks for letting me know, as I'm always curious to see what other people's experiences are.

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.but I am scared to tell my friends LOL.

...If you're worried about what they'll think of the freezer technique, then you might want to keep my last tweak idea a secret...

clackers91 · #39 (**permalink**) 16th Mar 2007, 1:09 am

michiganjfrog, the BH doesnt play WMA files correctly (stutters) and the webcam function doesnt work. Hopefully that is enough to be able to return it for a refund (i dont really like the construction and layout of the player physically either)

michiganjfrog · #40 (**permalink**) 16th Mar 2007, 8:46 am

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michiganjfrog, the BH doesnt play WMA files correctly (stutters) and the webcam function doesnt work. Hopefully that is enough to be able to return it for a refund (i dont really like the construction and layout of the player physically either)

Actually, just not liking it for any reason is good enough for a return with UXcell, but I think that may be more limited in time than the general warranty (cant recall exactly).