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Jackie78:
Hi,

I just got myself a SanDisk e280 Player, and I am really thinking about installing Rockbox firmware instead. However, there is one thing I am still in doubt, concerning the sound qulity: can I expect the sound quality from this player to be as good with Rockbox, as it is with the original firmware? In a user review at amazon.de, a user writes that with rockbox, the soundquality suffers compared to the original firmware. Is that possible, and why is this the case?

Can you explain why sound quality differs with different firmwares (assuming you don't alter any equalizer settings or stuff)?

Thanks alot.

scorche:
The sound on Sansa devices used to have many issues (which may be when that comment was made), but they have pretty much all been fixed.

interframe:
Been using my Sansa with Rockbox for the past 10 months. The sound quality has always been better with Rockbox. In addition the ability to tune the output for a particular set of headphones or listening devise is way ahead of the original Sansa firmware.

Oyo:
I second the  sound being better. maybe you could say a little more clean and crisp with more detail would be a good way to describe it.

I A/B'd the same file yesterday in both firmwares and found it was like pulling a blanket off of the sound with Rockbox. Very pleasing to me, but some folks might call it harsher sounding.

Give it a try, Dual Booting is allowed, (press I

shoe:
I am just curious (and ignorant) about this.  How does one person's firmware cause a different sound than another's?  Since it is just a question of digital info to analog voltage, and the hardware is the same...

I realize that the firmware does make a difference, I have a 4gen Ipod, and I noticed the sound is quite different from the OF.  I found no equalizer settings that could get the same sound as the OF.

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