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Comments on Sansa Clip+ ???
On Dec 6, 10:17=A0am, Kulin Remailer wrote:
Hi, I know portable players are not exactly "high end audio" but since you gu= ys DO know good audio I want to ask your opinions on this player. I have a Sansa Clip+, and it's the best portable player I've ever had. The ear buds that come with the Clip+ are not QUITE as lousy as the torture devices Apple insists on packing with their iPods, but they're not a whole lot better. I've used several of the "Skull Candy"-style "in-ear" buds and regular circumaural headphones, and the sound quality -- unless the bit rate is somewhere in the cellar -- is as good as, or better, than any iPod. Apple was really stupidly slow to get on the solid-state bandwagon, and I've gone through two of their "mini-drive" models quite quickly -- a drive that small with moving parts (the disc[s] and the read-arm[s]) is simply never going to last. Some other features I like about my (currently 8GB) Sansa Clip+ are A) the fact that you can have as many MiniSD cards as you want, thus providing what is in essence an infinitely-sized music library, just by swapping cards out, and if your Sansa Clip dies, you still have all your music safely stored; B) the fact that the Clip+ can also be used as a data drive, and has a chaptering audio-book function: C) flash- memory chips are vastly superior to mechanical mini-HDs in terms of power consumption, which means, among other things, your battery is going to last a lot longer than one that has to be charged every four hours or so, and, finally, D) the size of the thing is perfect. I bought one of those inexpensive soft-rubber condoms to put it in, and all the controls work fine, and it's well protected. I'm 62, and I'm sure my hearing isn't what it was when I was 20, but the Sansa Clip+ sounds as good to me as anything that comes out of my 27" iMac, through the speakers OR through headphones or ear buds. Have a happy Bart |
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