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Creative Zen or Ipod? (pg. 5)
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| Gauss |
Oh yeah, definitely get Sennheiser CX300, I got them week or two ago and they're just too good.  |
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| Intuition |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Definitely stay away from the iTouch |
I've personally love the iPod Touch, and it'll be even better once Firmware 2.0 comes out next month. Obviously price is big factor, but it is the ultimate media player. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| If there was a way to extend the format compatibility with the touch/iphone, it would be much better. I have a multitude of formats, and I refuse to transcode them. This results in a loss of quality, something of which I am unable to deal with. |
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| Ek0nomik |
I just bought a Creative Zen, and I love it.
I will never let iTunes step binary onto my computer. |
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| changosanch |
Ipod. I've had my 30Gb for about 3 1/2 years with no problems. I listen to it when I work out and I also have it hooked up to my car stereo.
My friend had a Zune and he liked it until it crapped on him. He went with an ipod nano & has been content since. Another friend has the itouch but yeah, that is too pricey. The only regret he has is he should've gotten the classic with more memory. LOL But, hes happy with it.
Not everyone can be happy. |
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| inconspicuous |
I had a creative nomad jukebox...yes, this giant thing.
it was awesome for its time. I think I paid $400 or $500 for it. :wtf:
but seriously...6gb of storage in 2001 was pretty badass, even though it was heavy as a brick and had the worst equalizer ever, EAX.
then got a 128mb muvo, which was the best $60 I've ever spent on ebay. That thing lasted forever, had insane battery life (I'm talking 2 weeks on a single aaa...with heavy use), and weighed nothing.
finally, picked up a zen micro. really slick player, pretty good sound quality. looked, felt, & sounded great, but the keypad still kinda sucked, at least compared to the black-and-white, heavy, giant, mac-only, failure-of-backlight 'ipod' that was out then.
that said, creative labs. their drivers suck, their products are made poorly, their drivers suck, and their drivers suck. never again. |
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| kamil |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
I had a creative nomad jukebox...yes, this giant thing.
it was awesome for its time. I think I paid $400 or $500 for it. :wtf:
but seriously...6gb of storage in 2001 was pretty badass, even though it was heavy as a brick and had the worst equalizer ever, EAX.
then got a 128mb muvo, which was the best $60 I've ever spent on ebay. That thing lasted forever, had insane battery life (I'm talking 2 weeks on a single aaa...with heavy use), and weighed nothing.
finally, picked up a zen micro. really slick player, pretty good sound quality. looked, felt, & sounded great, but the keypad still kinda sucked, at least compared to the black-and-white, heavy, giant, mac-only, failure-of-backlight 'ipod' that was out then.
that said, creative labs. their drivers suck, their products are made poorly, their drivers suck, and their drivers suck. never again. |
im not sure if i can take you seriously....drivers arent required for mp3 players. |
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| delobbo |
| quote: | Originally posted by kamil
im not sure if i can take you seriously....drivers arent required for mp3 players. |
yeah they aren't, but apparently Creative thought otherwise. They made you install all this bloatware on your pc just to be able to get songs onto your DAP. The Jukebox "driver" is still around, last time I checked. But, I know they're not alone in this sense. Microsoft made you do all sorts of crap before you could do anything productive with your Zune, to name just one other example. |
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| Fibonacci |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Zen.
Pods are rubbish made for idiots who like flashy, gimmicky commercials and aesthetically pleasing products, rather than useful products made by companies with some clue of what they're doing. |
They are aesthetically pleasing, they are pleasantly easy to use. Their scroll/click wheels is probably the most innovative design I have yet to see on an mp3 player. Since when is aesthetics a bad reason to buy something? You haven't said anything TRULY negative about the ipod aside from its highly commercialized. boo hoo. The only product i've seen come close is iAudio, and thats because their sound quality s on the ipod and their interface is pretty good too.
iTunes isn't a bad music client either - granted, i dont like the fact that ipods will not sync with anything else easily, but I really don't see what the big deal is. windows media player is any better? winamp was great back in its prime now I'm not so sure.
buying an ipod because its trendy isn't any better than not buying an ipod because its trendy. Either way you're making a fashion statement if trends is the best reason you've got to buy or not buy an mp3 player.
hard drive can crash in ANY mp3 player - the hard drives are made by either toshiba or samsung. They have moving parts. ipod hard drives aren't any better or worse situation for failure than any other hard drive-based mp3 player. |
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| delobbo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fibonacci
hard drive can crash in ANY mp3 player - the hard drives are made by either toshiba or samsung. They have moving parts. ipod hard drives aren't any better or worse situation for failure than any other hard drive-based mp3 player. |
good point. still not a fan of ipods though, for mainly 2 other reasons - no custom fully adjustable EQ (among other SFX options) and having to use itunes. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
having to use itunes. |
just get the out. |
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