4-5GB music player

Energize · 13 Jul 2006 at 02:17

I'm looking for a portable audio player somewhere around 5Gb preferably one with a hard drive because I can't stand flash memorys dire transfer rates, It must be able to play ogg, mp3 and a lossless format, it must have good sound quality and it must not be an insane price aka apple.

Im going to be listening with my Sennheiser CX300's.

Energize · 13 Jul 2006 at 19:01

Bump.

Energize · 13 Jul 2006 at 20:08

Cheap and format support.

Energize · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:40

When transferring data and music to them it takes longer.

Energize · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:52

dmpoole said:
I'm still confused.

In pcs hdds transfer data at least double the speed of flash memory around 65MB/s or higher because NAND flash memory had a technical limitation meaning it can never even surpass usb 2.0 speeds, they don't last as long either in heavy write use, Id assume that in an mp3 player using a decent hdd it would be able to obtain higher transfer rates, I guess they use crap hdds.

Energize · 14 Jul 2006 at 00:16

Eliot said:
well the hdd's in ipod are hardly 15000k raptors, so tbh, the differnece will be tiny,

The drives in mp3 players may be crap but I'm not talking about 15k drives, even 7,200 and 5,400 rpm drives are double the speed of nand memory.

Energize · 14 Jul 2006 at 00:40

Will the m5 work with the cx300 headphones?

Energize · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:32

Vegetarian said:
Apple 30g = £175 ish

Doesn't support ogg though.