I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an MP3
player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not wanting
to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably £100
maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my old cd
walkman?

Gav

Gav wrote:
I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an MP3
player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not wanting
to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably £100
maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my old cd
walkman?

Gav



mp3 sound quality is an oxymoron.

My advice is stick to your cd walkman.

Ian

"Ian Thompson-Bell" wrote in message
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Gav wrote:
I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an
MP3 player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not
wanting to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably
£100 maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my
old cd walkman?

Gav

mp3 sound quality is an oxymoron.

My advice is stick to your cd walkman.

Ian

Yeah I realise that mp3 is obviously less than cd quality (no matter what
some people would have you believe), but its a trade off between carrying a
load of cds with a fairly large player to having something that easily fits
in your pocket. I have mp3'd nearly all my cd collection at a high quality
level and listen to them on a daily basis in the car. So I accept mp3 will
never be as good as the cd but I'm willing to compromise a little for
convenience, but the player can make a huge difference to the end result
which is why I'm after opinions on which ones are better. For instance my
Alpine head unit in the car does an outstanding job of playing my mp3s yet
the same mp3s played in other players have had a kind of lifeless sound.

Gav

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"Ian Thompson-Bell" wrote in message
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Gav wrote:
I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an
MP3 player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not
wanting to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably
£100 maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my
old cd walkman?

Gav

mp3 sound quality is an oxymoron.

My advice is stick to your cd walkman.

Ian

Yeah I realise that mp3 is obviously less than cd quality (no matter what
some people would have you believe), but its a trade off between carrying a
load of cds with a fairly large player to having something that easily fits
in your pocket. I have mp3'd nearly all my cd collection at a high quality
level and listen to them on a daily basis in the car. So I accept mp3 will
never be as good as the cd but I'm willing to compromise a little for
convenience, but the player can make a huge difference to the end result
which is why I'm after opinions on which ones are better. For instance my
Alpine head unit in the car does an outstanding job of playing my mp3s yet
the same mp3s played in other players have had a kind of lifeless sound.

Gav


Ought to try MP4 then .. AAC by another name..
--
Tony Sayer

On 1 Aug, 13:13, "Gav" wrote:
I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an MP3
player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not wanting
to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably £100
maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my old cd
walkman?

Gav

Anything by Creative Labs gets my vote.
In the main though get some decent headphones. Sennheiser CX300s or
Creative Labs own.
Have a look on Amazon.co.uk
And don't worry about OGG AAC or any other sort of codec advice. When
you're listening on a coach it won't make any difference.

Doc

"Dr Hfuhruhurr" wrote in message
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On 1 Aug, 13:13, "Gav" wrote:
I'm going on a coach trip to Germany soon and am thinking of getting an
MP3
player to take with me. I'm fussy about sound quality so I'm after
recomendations on which players have the best sound quality. I'm not
wanting
to spend too much though as it might not get used again probably £100
maximum. Can anybody offer any advice or should I just stick with my old
cd
walkman?

Anything by Creative Labs gets my vote.
In the main though get some decent headphones. Sennheiser CX300s or
Creative Labs own.
Have a look on Amazon.co.uk
And don't worry about OGG AAC or any other sort of codec advice. When
you're listening on a coach it won't make any difference.

Well, I have a Creative Muvo and my wife has an iRiver, and in my opinion
the iRiver sounds vastly superior (even with the same headphones - the
iRiver came with Sennheisers), although I prefer the user interface and
styling of the Creative.

We listen to Ogg Vorbis on the iRiver and WMA on the Creative, so that might
account for some of the difference, but the iRiver sounds much more punchy.

iRivier do seem to have a good reputation for sound quality, was very close
to buying one myself. I've bitten the bullet now though and opted for a
SanDisk E260, fingers crossed it will be a good one.

Gav