I don't mind a little diversion, honestly I have tried most of the ipods and while the older ones sounded OK from what I recall(5th gen and below), the newer ones sound like pretty bad, very small sounding and not very warm, also kinda fatiguing although I guess pretty accurate but you can have all the accuracy in the world and if it isn't pleasing it wont matter to me... . Maybe its a bit better out of the LOD but I would not know....
I have tried, Sansa's, Creatives, Zunes, and Sony players, most of them sounded leagues better and the Fuze is at the top for me personally.