Anything better than the H340?

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Hi guys,

Ive not been really looking at the MP3 market lately, but just wanted to know if theres anything out there thats considerably better than the old Iriver H340 that I still have? Im looking for a similar feature-set just in a better package...

Im more than happy with it (easily the best MP3 player out there in its time - hey paradox ;)) - the only annoyance I have is the size really and its not the most beautiful...

What I may do is just buy a smaller MP3 player for daily use and keep the H340 as a portable HDD or for holidays - problem is that to me Im just trying to find reasons to justify that its not redundant anymore...

So is there anything out there to replace it or should I just pick up a U10/Nano as a companion...

(P.S. Only joking about the Nano :p)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
splitting hairs ;)

Not tried rockbox since its early stages on the H3xx series - matured much since then?

So if the H340 is still that good - whats a good portable player - really looking to get the U10 - anyone have one?

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Just to say that theres a U10 4GB in the making - so might interest some of you - should be around £150-£175 mark hopefully...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Still overpriced and undercapacitied to my mind. :(

Got a iRiver 6gb H10, iRiver H140 and a iAudio X5 30gb

While neither of the larger capactied are small devices...they're not huge either. Use the iAuidio most as it handles Flac out of the box.

Exercise time *once fully healed again* will be the H10 and the H140 is for mamimum capacity.

Would I change any of them? Nope.

Simon/~Flibster
 
Phnom_Penh said:
I'd say the Kenwood HD30GB9 is probably better.
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Actually it does look pretty good, not heard of that before :). I can't see it available for purchase anywhere though.
 
james.miller said:
it doesnt play video and it doesnt support many audio formats.....why's it so good?
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apart from it playing wav, I'd say the fact it has a built in amplifier makes it pretty good... why the hell would you wan't video on an mp3 player :confused:.









:p
 
because mp3 players don't have amplifiers, right?

what it has is a digital amplifier, but with kenwood using all sorts of mumbo jumbo to discribe the features....its also very expensive and from reports lasts about 8 hours on the battery. Oh and it has 6mw per channel thats very poor even if the sound quality is good.
 
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james.miller said:
what do you think powers your headphones? magic?? they all have amplifiers of some kind lol
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You know that's not what I meant. The output power isn't that bad, I'm pretty sure a lot of MD players don't give out much more. Although if he's really bothered he can stick a CMoy on it, unless you have a better player in mind?
 
i know exactly what you meant. you assumed it has an amplifier and nothing else does. not once did you even mention the word 'digital' or that other players do (all of them).

Although if he's really bothered he can stick a CMoy on it, unless you have a better player in mind?
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thats an option, but why buy an expensive player and then use a cmoy on it? better off getting an ipod and using the line-out to drive a cmoy surely..
 
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