Rate the sound quality of your mp3 players.

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

Rate the sound quality, and a short comment on them

[MeDieViL]

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best sound ever heard, best mp3 player ecer used :p

grtzzz

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

1. Best sound quality
I-river N10 Black
http://www.iriveramerica.com/images/prod/ultra/n10/N10-103/N10-103-angle.jpg
comment:I got this yesterday. Its sound quality was incredible. There was a little bit of white noise found by hardware, but I was not able to detect them. It improved alot from H10, i think. 3D extreme EQ was working just so perfect, and i actually found the sound quality far better than my MD player from Kenwood. (Japanese original Kenwood NH-10 with Grado SR120.) The bunddle ear phone is actually a premium ear phone. If you buy the identical ear phone separately from Cresyn, it costs 70$. The matching is very very good, and this made the sound quality better than KENWOOD DMC-S55 plugged into SR120. (SR120 matching on N10 was quite impressive, KENWOOD DMC-S55 was also great btw). The navigation is alittle bit tricky, i guess. I spent the whole day yesterday, and now i am used to it. I was actually thinking the mp3 player to be poor quality in sound because of its slim size. (It's one of the smallest mp3 in the world, and i think it is extremely stylist. Innostyle). It's quite surprising that a MP3P has a better matching, hence a better sound quality delivered than a MD player.

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SONY D-EJ2000
I am not really a big fan of Sony, but this product indeed the best, perhaps far better quality than N10 even in its bunddle matching. (EJ2000 bundle was poor, but the matching with Grado SR120 was perfect!!). There is no much comment here. It is quite natural that a CDP should win over MP3P.

2.KENWOOD DMC-S55
http://211.174.51.11/~youngjoo/data/MD/S55B-1.jpg
I liked this product for a long time. However, depsite its good hardware built, the matching is not good for any of the headsets/ear phones i owned.

[andy.c]

I'm very pleased with my Ipod! :D

[Karim]

My MP3 players
Sony Vaio VGF-AP1
Nokia 6230
Nokia 9500
In order of quality

[ThreeX]

Don´t have one (except iPaq, which is really good with KOSS PortaPro-phones) But of the ones i have borrowed/tested the Jens of Sweden and iPod impressed me!

[Zozo7610]

iPod 4th Generation 20GB encoded at 192kbps is so good sound quality i love it

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

One pity about my N10 is that there is no support for Vorbit OGG lossless files. OGG files are lossless like wave files, but compressed. It is supposed to be the quality of CD, if recorded from cd. That's one big draw back. Or else, until now i am quite satisfied. Another draw back is that it gets fingerprints easily (But the mp3 is very durable compared to its size)
My third best mini player goes iriver X slim-550. The CD quality from X slim 550 was not as good as those from Sony's. Mp3 quality was ok. I felt some white noise, which is present in almost every gadgets, except for Zen. Some high frequency sounded like there was something breaking.
Apple's 3G Ipod goes for my 4th best sound quality. I like Ipods, nothing against, but I felt considerable amount of white noise, high frequency was very poor. The sound was not sharp enough. However, design wise, it was pretty cute.

[whoelseisbored]

Im happy with my Nisis DV H10!

Whoelseisbored

[maverick]

my old, old, old creative muvo
works great and the sound qua is good (using sennheiser Hd 202)

[lucsi]

I have a Philips hdd100 15gb; sound quality with original control+ headphone is about 6 or 7/ 10; treble is OK but no bass.
i use control + my Sony headphone the quality is a little bit better.
If dont use control; only headphone it is about 8/10.
worse than the sound of my mobile SX1 which i can give 9/10.

[NOKIA 6630]

My 7600 sounds good through both loudspeaker and via headset but its just to soft and the volume has to be jacked up heaps i wonder if theres a way?

[Karim]

7600 is stereo!

[benji]

iRiver ihp-120, best sound quality I've ever heard off a portable device :)

(used with Sony earphones)

[NOKIA 6630]

7600's Mp3 player is alright but you cant compare it to the 6230's Mp3 player which has got Equalizers and different type of styles of music like jazz, techno, rock etc you can change.

[bottfly7]

isnt this inquirey quite bias, as most people will believe that their mp3 player has the best sound, i certainly do!

i have an iaudio m3 and it is the best sound on an mp3 player that i have heard (and i have tested many, including ipods, irivers and lots of others, not to be bias)

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

bottfly7, iaudio truly has a good sound quality, and I think that's quite objective. Because many headphone testers also agree that Iaudio has a good sound quality among mp3 players:)

[takky]

ipod mini the original one - good sound quality but too bad about the supplied headphones which suck. When volumed up, quite a lot of distortion trying to output lower frequencies

[NOKIA 6630]

Thats why alot of people use their personal and expensive headphones in situations like that.

[liamss]

the sony nw-hd3 isnt very loud! but the sound quality is o.k

[NOKIA 6630]

Whats the best headphones out there for sound quality and volume?

[tricky05]

4g 20gb ipod is superb but the earphones crackle when turned up, with good earphones the soung quality is second to none

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

I'd say Sennheiser, Grado are one of the best premier headphones

[NOKIA 6630]

They would have to be expensive right?

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

NOKIA 6630, sort of. But Grado is relatively inexpansive. You can even buy their headphones at 65$. But the quality is really high class. The reason that grado is not as popular as its low price and high quality is because their headphones are not comfortable when you wear it. It is also quite big. I like Grado though. It has a really classical taste:)

[Memzee]

My iAudio M3 sound quality is pretty good - it has SRS sound that can be fully customised, and combined with my Sony MDRX711ES headphones (or whatever they are), I often hear parts of songs that I didn't know existed until I listened to it on there. I know it's not really comparable.. but the only thing that has better sound is my BOSE CD/Radio system.

[NOKIA 6630]

Is the 7250, 7210, 6610 etc all Stereo via headset for the radio?

[Seanjuan]

Sony MDNHF800 HIMD player. Not exactly a mp3 player, but it suits me just fine. Planning on selling to get an actual mp3 player. I like the sound qual of the md, but sometimes its not so great.

[Sam22]

I love my 4th Generation iPod and my Shure E3c's. I've got about 2100+ songs on it and encoded mostly at 320kbps. I dunno what i would do without them. :eek: Sound quality depends on a lot of things:- Your source, encoding, earphones etc...

[liamss]

if you go onto the equalizer for ipod on itunes, you can make it louder on the ipod! so the sound quality isnt toooo bad when its medium-high volume, but when the volume is set at the highest it can go on itunes, the sound quality is quite poor when volume is full on the ipod!!

[NOKIA 6630]

But you wouldnt want it to be on full blast unless you don't care about your eardrums?

[liamss]

yea, but in school, or on a bus or sumfin or in the car, it needs to be loud otherwise i cant here it!!

[sunystory@hotmail.com]

Seanjuan
MD player can be far better quality than mp3 players:) If you record with optical output from cd's, the quality remains almost the same, whereas mp3 is loss-compressive file. Perhaps, OGG can compete with Atrac formats

[e46]

My MP3 players:

1.Samsung Yepp YP-T5 (good balance and also has SRS and WOW)
2.iPod Shuffle (no equalizer but handles the bass, mid, treble very nicely)

Both sounds very good but I think Samsung has the upper hand.

Btw, still looking for a way for my US version Samsung Yepp to display chinese/japanese song names/artists... anyone?

[NOKIA 6630]

Yeh i gotta agree that the Ipod earphones are very soft indeed, when you put in different earphones i dont think there's a difference.