I have had a Cowon X5 30 GB hard drive-based playerfor sometime. It sound good and I found a nice third party case and arm band for the gym. However, the battery runs down quickly playing .flac. Unfortunately I had to have it serviced for a headphone jack that became unstable and that cost $45 plus shipping one way. Now the battery charge life is down to about one use and I'll need to send it in for the $45 battery change.
So I got a Sansa Fuze which is solid state. It's only 8 GB but it takes a 16 GB microSD card to expand it to 24 GB which is nice for .flac and very nice for .mp3. The battery life is much better and the cost of the player is less than the service I've had to pay for the Cowon. The sound is not quite as good but it's smaller and the user interface is better. I have actually transcoded a lot of .flac to .mp3 for the player and have about 1000 songs on it. Cowon is a nice piece of kit but the battery change issues on all their devices holds me back. If I was going to get another Cowon, I might get the 32 GB O2 flash-based player which accepts expansion SD cards, but I'd have to prepare myself for the inevitable expensive battery change. http://www.amazon.com/Cowon-Video-MP3-Player-White/dp/B001IWN9LQ/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1248550205&sr=8-7 -- jimzak http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65861 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
