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Want recommendations for best sounding, hard drive-based Music Player

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[Saint]:
While I don't disagree with this entirely, I find it very hard to agree.

The source is vitally important.

What good is it having high end consumer grade headphones that will faithfully represent the gritty, dirty, roll-off laden output of most low end consumer audio devices?


[Saint]

Astrogoth:
Oh-kay.

Since you can not find a cheaper DAP than the Clip Zip ($18 on Amazon at this moment.) and it does not sound bad at all I stand by what I said. Quality ear buds, headphones or IEM's are the most important part of a good listening setup. For most, unless you pick the beloved Monoprice $8 buds, they will be more expensive than the player and they WILL have more to do with what you hear than the player. You could say that only the quality of the recordings matter more, and you often have no control over that since you didn't record them yourself and the source may be elusive.

schlieph:

--- Quote from: [Saint] on August 06, 2014, 09:08:24 PM ---Best is wildly subjective.

If I assume that "best" here means "most accurately reproduced signal output", and taking availability into account (in some locales H3** or Gigabeat variants may as well be unicorn blood), the iPod Classic is pretty hard to beat.


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I'm curious to know what non-apple player might be pretty hard to beat (by other non-apple players, of course) ..

:. schlieph

saratoga:
Newer Sandisk players mostly match the iPod classic.

cholero:
I think your player is iPod classic/Video.
But there is a higher sound quality level available if you can live with buying a new uSD card. There are the Hifiman Players, the expensive HiFi e.t.'s and ihifi's, but there is also the one I would recommend with the best price/sq ratio: iBasso DX50 . The port of the iBasso is not yet official but you can download quite stable unofficial builds at head-fi.

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