[dgbrown]

Let me preface this with I am a audio snob. Have been since I started listening to music. I live in my own private hell when not around my own audio systems. The vast majority of people can't tell the difference between high quality sound or the highly compressed mp3’s.

This player is superior to most other players because of the DAC it uses. The vast majority of people will never notice the difference, not sure if it is because they do not have sensitive ears or just don't give a sh@@.

The other thing about this player is it can hold 2x more than any ipod that you can buy out there since the ipod classic was discontinued. Once again, most people do not care about this. I do, because I do not want to choose what music I take with me— I want all of it.

I do not have one of these, but it was in the running when I was replacing my Ipod.

[KarlInOhio]

The other thing about this player is it can hold 2x more than any ipod that you can buy out there since the ipod classic was discontinued. Once again, most people do not care about this. I do, because I do not want to choose what music I take with me— I want all of it.

To do that you would have to put your "low-res" music on it... and make Neil Young cry. :-)

And to think of the compression I used to squeeze two albums on my Rio 500 with 64MB.