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Topic: mp3 player recommendations Posted: August 27 2009 at 16:46
the school scholarships are flooding in and I'm swimming in money, so I figure I'll treat myself. I want to put down good money for a good mp3 player, possibly throw in some extra for a good pair of headphones as well.
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Posted: August 27 2009 at 16:56
I should have about 500 dollars to spend, and am thinking that I will get a zune, I have read that they are pretty reliable.I am interested in a good pair of headphones too, but I don't know what to buy. I have checked Bose and Sennheiser's websites, but I don't know if there is anything cheaper that is at least somewhere in the same range as far as quality goes.
Typical Ipod suggestion here. I have never had a problem with my 30gb, had it for over 3 years now. Just make sure you get good headphones, noise cancelling ones - you will need them. Otherwise you will kill your hearing in a short time.
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Posted: August 27 2009 at 20:41
I'm not swimming in dough, so I just listen to 30 GB Creative Zen with Sony MDR-J10 earphones. Cheap little buggers, but they've lasted longer than ANY paid of earphones I've ever owned (13 months, and most of those consisted of gym sessions).
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Posted: August 27 2009 at 23:57
The problem with headphones that cancel noise is that people will try to talk to me while I'm listening to music and I have no idea that they are even talking until they start yelling, and then right when I think that they are done and I press play they start again.
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 15:01
I'd recommend getting a Zune, I've got the now discontinued 80gb model (bought it right before they replaced them with the 120gb for the same price ) and it's pretty awesome. It's reliable, controls are easy, the Zune software isn't iTunes, which is a HUGE plus, etc.
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 15:16
Mosis wrote:
the school scholarships are flooding in and I'm swimming in money, so I figure I'll treat myself. I want to put down good money for a good mp3 player, possibly throw in some extra for a good pair of headphones as well.
any recommendations?
(if this is in the wrong forum, apologies!)
Swimming in money? If you want to send me some of it I promise not to complain.
My current player is a Zune and I'm happy with it. There's a Zune HD coming out. I'm sticking with the one I got until it croaks and I'm guessing I can pretty much count on that happening. It's an 80 gig and a little over half full. I'm thinking that you don't want a really small player these days unless you want to swear off video.. It's slightly smaller than a deck of cards.
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I should have about 500 dollars to spend, and am
thinking that I will get a zune, I have read that they are pretty
reliable.I am interested in a good pair of headphones too, but I don't
know what to buy. I have checked Bose and Sennheiser's websites, but I
don't know if there is anything cheaper that is at least somewhere in
the same range as far as quality goes.
Speaking of headphone for a portable digital music device, the ones that came with the devices are all crap. The Zune "premium" headphones were crap and uncomfortable to boot. I've got a set of Sony earbuds that actually have reasonable bass and are comfortable. This is important, because if you have to crank it up for good bass you will likely damage your hearing. Sorry I don't have the model number handy.
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 15:47
I don't like earbuds anyway, I prefer nice comfortable headphones. I have read that Microsoft is going to stop selling Zunes and will only carry Zune HD, so I am going to try to get my hands on one soon. At Walmart I think I saw the 120 GB marked at 229.99, which is fairly reasonable.
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 16:03
You don't want to get a Zune. They are just bulky versions of iPods IMO. I have a 30 GB iPod that I've had for 3 or 4 years, and it's great. My friend has a 120 GB iPod and he says it's great, and from what I've seen it is.
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Posted: September 18 2009 at 01:54
I currently have an 8GB Creative Zen X-Fi and I'm quite happy with it. I'm thinking about getting an iPhone though, or an iPod touch ... I want to try out the cool music instrument applications:
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Posted: September 18 2009 at 02:15
I have the Creative Zen X-Fi also.. I've had quite a few Creative mp3 players, I decided to buy Creative because the Hard Drive space was always larger when these first came out. Now though, that the iPod has a 160G mp3 player, I might consider this.. 30G is nothing for the variety of music that I like..
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Posted: September 18 2009 at 12:53
^ 160GB is a lot, but it still couldn't hold my entire collection. Currently I'm quite happy with 8GB, that's about 60 albums (I use high bitrate mp3s only). Every week I simply remove albums that I listened to and replace them with new albums that I bought, or old albums that I'd like to listen to again.
BTW: I was at a store today and had a look at the iPod touch ... not bad, but very expensive. I wouldn't want to spend more than 200 EUR for it, and even that's a bit steep considering that my old player works fine. So I guess I'll simply wait a little while longer ...
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:52
I had a Zen Video M (Creative)... amazing sound quality (one of the best....better than any IPod....) the thing is that the screen stopped working (after a year and a half)... so I am thinking of buying a Creative Zen X-Fi (Creative's sound quality is great + they last long-I've had a Zen Micro for almost 3 years now)
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 18:14
I'm gonna second the iPod here. I've had mine 2 years and it hasn't let me down once, runs like clockwork. I've got an iPod Classic, so I suppose that's what I'll be recommending. There was a lot of bad rep about them, but if I'm honest I've had to beef with it so far.
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 18:49
I've got a 4GB iPod nano, 3rd Generation which has never had a problem over 2 years of daily use. The earphones which came with it were sh*tty though...
I'm either getting one of the 120GB iPod classics or a 32GB iPod touch, but I don't want the touch since I probably won't use it for anything other than music which defeats the purpose, and if you use a classic whilst running, it doesn't last long because of the moving parts
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Have you ever used it whilst running? I've read that it nearly halfs the lifespan, which is my main worry about buying one.
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 21:23
J-Man wrote:
You don't want to get a Zune. They are just bulky versions of iPods IMO. I have a 30 GB iPod that I've had for 3 or 4 years, and it's great. My friend has a 120 GB iPod and he says it's great, and from what I've seen it is.
They're not just bulky versions of iPods. Plus, you don't have to deal with iTunes suspiciously copying the format and style of the Zune media player on PC. Or with iTunes at all.
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) and it's pretty awesome. It's reliable, controls are easy, the Zune software isn't iTunes, which is a HUGE plus, etc.
