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Lately I have been doing some travelling and I have missed my music a little bit too much. I have tried to carry around a portable CD and a selection of my discs, but it hasnīt worked too well. I tend to scratch or lose the Cds along the way. So I was thinking of buying a HD music player. I am considering both the IPOD 40 GB and the Nomad Zen 60Gb. I just want to know how are they regarding sound quality used without compresion. Have you heard them? Any ideas, recommendations?Thanks
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I bought the zen and here are some thoughts:The sound quality is better with the zen. Th sound is more dynamic and clear. The ipod is veiled and warm. Not even close imho. The interface is better on the IPOD, The screen on my zen nx is still too small (the sen xtrra though solves this with a larger screen. I like the roller wheel interface on the zen and think it works well. The software that comes with the zen is...adequate. Nothign special but not as nice as the itunes software., There are shareware programs out there though that narrow the margin so its close to a toss up there. Usability my only real comloahte beside a larger viewing screen is that the battery cover can coem off a bit to easily. Nothing that horrible but it has happened to me a couple of times and has worried me. The BIG benefit of the zen is the replaceable battery. Talk to ipod users and notce how their batteries take a memory effect and tend not to recharge fully. After about 5 years of use the batteries willl be useless. The zen ough can replace the used battery. Huge beneft for me. I don't want to buy a new player every 5 years. But maybe you do if you want the latest or greatest. The zen is good enough for me though!
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There is more support for it right now as it is the most popular hard drive based mp3 player on the market. Furthermore, if you are willing to accept some level of restriction of dynamics, bass fullness/extension, and treble "airiness," AAC compression at 320kbps is actually very good for the mobile environment. Definitely not up to par for serious and critical home listening, but great for the mobile environment. If I remember right the iPod uses a Wolfson DAC too.The Nomad Zen I've only heard a few times and it was actually pretty good too. However, it sounded a little more clinical to me. Plus, it doesn't work with iTunes which is the best mp3/wav/aiff/aac music managmenet interface IMHO.
Given an identical high resolution track and headphones, I'm curious which player sounds best. A friend of mine did a comparison between new iPod and older Creative Labs Jukebox and preferred the Jukebox for sound quality (but iPod for packaging, of course).I don't think you can beat the iPod for overall package, but if sound quality is king (and why not?) maybe it is or isn't the best choice. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. I'm curious what others have found.
Just bought my daughter the Ipod with 10 GB storage. The 10 GB holds 2500 songs compressed. Thus you may not want the 40 or 60 GB. The sound of compressed files from Itunes is surprisingly good.Tom
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