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Rio Karma, RIP good buddy. Next?
comment: 9 | Thursday, March 17 (2005) 03:23AM | Posted by Austin Vaughan
It looks like the Karma has officially been laid to rest, judging from a recent update to the RioAudio.com website. Karma has been removed from the drop down box in the main menu for hard drive based players. It's still listed on thier HD player page but is no longer offered for sale through the company. Meaning... EOL (end of line). Likely it's been out of production for some time and this is just the final nail in the coffin. Of course there's still a bajillion or so Karmas left in old wharehouses around the web... even Amazon.com has a bunch left in stock. Why do we even care? She's an oldie, yes, but a goodie. In case we havn't driven home the point by now: Karma remains the top player of choice (audio-only) for the DAPreview crew.

So, more to the point, does this mean a new, high-capacity player willl soon replace it? YES! Well... eventually. We've heard rumors about an August or September release, so there's plenty of time left to speculate. All the developers will let on is that it's the most amazing thing the world has ever seen. !not
Thanks, twistedsnake
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Fluidity

Comments: 190
 		Mar 17 (2005) 05:03AM  

Just hope they bloody hurry up and get it released, and please guys, make a higher capacity version than just 20 or 30 gig, pretty please?



Steve

Comments: 1197
 		Mar 17 (2005) 05:51AM  

It's a good sign for the Chroma being released soon, but who knows what 'soon' means in 'Riotime'. I would think they would want something available in that space all the time, but with Rio....oh nevermind..



scottder

Comments: 185
 		Mar 17 (2005) 07:52AM  

Rio needs to get it together and show us something real. Karma fans have been hanging on to the Chroma dream for SO long, they're just going to twiddle their thumbs and make 300 itirations of the Carbon.

SHOW US THE CHROMA!



Tang

Comments: 3
 		Mar 17 (2005) 12:05PM  

Hi Austin and Omniscient!
Just to say i've echoed your news on my french board with mentioning my source (you!)

Here is the link but the post is in french of course:
[Linky]

Best regards,
Tanguy



Austin Vaughan
Location: Lenexa, KS
Comments: 768
 		Mar 17 (2005) 01:44PM  

Hi Tang, thanks. !hi



Yem

Comments: 1
 		Mar 17 (2005) 09:07PM  

Any other decent FLAC-supporting players out there?



Austin Vaughan
Location: Lenexa, KS
Comments: 768
 		Mar 17 (2005) 11:48PM  

only other FLAC player afaik is the iAudio M3



neversummer

Comments: 23
 		Mar 17 (2005) 11:50PM  

soon the ihp-120



ameyer17

Comments: 85
 		Mar 26 (2005) 09:10PM  

darn it... oh well



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