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hi people!

i was just looking for some advice on mp3 players. i just bought a 30gb ipod video but i might take it back because im really quite disappointed with the audio quality. ive played around with the eqs and tried different headphones but I keep getting distortion at the lower end (gets quite bad too). all my mp3s are encoded at 192k or above. from what ive read i might be better off trying a sony nw-hd5 or a creative zen. audio quality is the most important feature to me...

first of all, ipods cost way to much compared to the competition.

krod wrote:first of all, ipods cost way to much compared to the competition.

Usually you start off with "First of all" and then make another point ;)

I heard somewhere* that you can only put music on an iPod that you bought from the Apple music store online, and you can't burn it to a cd ... that in itself is enough reason not to get one for me.

*The "somewhere" is my friend who uses iTunes, though I'm not sure he explained it correctly :0

Get some japanese or chinese mp3 player with few GB ..couple with work ..

I don't think we need to make library on small players ,while we use our pc daily .. just update it on daily basis..

and tokyo man ,ask some friend ,those who has used some reasonable player... cheap will work ,don't go for HOW MUCH MEMORY ! just try to get reasonable audio quality product..

regards,
Asrar.

krod wrote:first of all, ipods cost way to much compared to the competition.

what competition are you comparing it to? i live in nz and ipods are cheaper than iriver, sony, iaudio etc. creative is cheaper but my friend has one and i didnt like it.

yoman wrote:Get some japanese or chinese mp3 player with few GB ..couple with work ..

I don't think we need to make library on small players ,while we use our pc daily .. just update it on daily basis..

and tokyo man ,ask some friend ,those who has used some reasonable player... cheap will work ,don't go for HOW MUCH MEMORY ! just try to get reasonable audio quality product..

regards,
Asrar.

the reason i bought a ipod was to make a music library - if i just wanted a small about of music with me at a time id just use my cd player. i do a lot of travelling and i dont like taking my computer everywhere with me. anyway, the cheap chinese players are terrible sound-wise.

I have an old Creative Zen Touch which is a brilliant device, a bit bulkier than the ipod but more much more robust and its battery can most definetly last the 24 hours advertised. Excellent sound quality comes from it, especially compared to the junk apple produce (although, giving them some credit, the Gen 5 Ipod has the equivalent sound quality of the new Creative Zen MicroVideo ).

In fact my only problem with it is that I keep managing to break them. I know a few people who have them and noone seems to have the problems I have...though I guess I'm kinda rough with it. Long live the extended warranty

i used APACER AS800
ppl say there is no quality at all, but i can say, it great

i have a Microdia 512 5 in 1 mp3 player. had it for 1 year now and it works great no problems at all. the storage capacity is kind of small and i thins i would change it for an Creative Zen with 20 gb. I`ll have to wait for my birthdate to get it

AwSEG

Get a iRiver...it has great sound and portablity just as iPod. By the way iRiver & iPod are made my different companies; don't get confused by the "i".

I agree to d fact dat ipods cost way too much, in fact some japanese players actually have better quality, but for that you'll have to look around a bit! I personally have an iriver and coupled wid gud headphones(in my case a BOSE headphone) it gives u amazing sound quality!

Yes but u also can not deny d fact dat an ipod is a style symbol!

So i think going for a cheaper player wid gud headphones mite jus do d trick!


Peace

iPods are wayyy overrated, imo there are better mp3 players about, creative for one.

iPod is nice, but I got creative muvo, it pwnz really good sound and u got 1gb of space on him, it can be used as flash drive, and it got cool look:

I'm also looking to buy one soon and will probably buy the Creative Zen Sleek 20gb. All the reviews I have read say it is good and my friend likes her's. The only problem with it is that the scroller is supposed to be a little tricky to get used to.

i like more ipod mano