I completely misread the title of this post.
Oy...
No, Rockboy's choppy sound isn't device-specific. It sounds bad on all players.
I initially read the title of this post (well, I say "initially", but it was multiple times in a row) as "Is Rockbox's choppy sound device-specific?", thinking you were listing to some form of re-encoded game audio file and that the example file(s) sounded good to you on every device *but* the Classic. Re-reading makes a lot more sense. Apologies.
[Saint]