MP3 player for gym

sound quality on mobiles has a lot to be desired

i'd go with a small iaudio or creative player (not a hard drive based one, as you're in the gym)
 
To be honest the SQ of my w950 compared to my sony s618f is worlds apart, but a lot of people aren't as picky as me or indeed use high quality headphones to really highlight the differences.
 
Fubsy said:
Yea you would think it's pretty easy to decide from that point of view wouldn't you... but people still decided to drop a bomb on the inferior iStuff all the bloody time, just becuase everyone else has one, why?

I just don't understand it, it's like Apple joining the graphics card market and everyone buying their card even though it's useless compared to the Nvidia and ATi offerings, but it is white and looks pretty inside your case. :/
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Or maybe, just maybe people know they cannot expect perfect in-house hi-fi quality from something protable.
They then look at everything available and decide that the Apple stuff looks good, sounds great, the whole range is small and have great battery life.

When they add all this together they decide that maybe the Apple equipment is just what they want and go out and buy it.
"Apple useless compared to other MP3 players" - ummm, yer, that's right.
 
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People who go on about SQ on such a poor format as MP3 make me laugh tbh.
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I don't see the relevance of that comment, if it's to suggest you shouldn't be able to discern SQ difference between players because of MP3 quality, then that is an utterly ludicrous suggestion.

Quite apart from the fact it is humanly impossible to distinguish between something like lame insane vs non lossy, and anyone that says they can is simply delusional.
 
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Bigsy said:
I don't see the relevance of that comment, if it's to suggest you shouldn't be able to discern SQ difference between players because of MP3 quality, then that is an utterly ludicrous suggestion.

Quite apart from the fact it is humanly impossible to distinguish between something like lame insane vs non lossy, and anyone that says they can is simply delusional.
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Dude chill out....

Just makes me laugh when people try giving it the audiophile as someone always does :rolleyes: For 99% of the population any MP3 player will do (including a mobile phone) and couldn't give a **** about codecs, bit rates or whatever, me included. Most use big compression and it doesn't matter what the player is, that was the relevance of my earlier comment, k ;)
 
It hardly seems a good reason to totally disregard sound quality.

I wouldn't class myself as an audiophile, I still know what sounds crap.

If you don't know or want to know any better than just go out and buy any old rubbish, if I didn't care that's what I'd do. But he's asking for advice so he doesn't end up with an rubbish player, and why wouldn't sound quality be one of the main (if not the main) consideration in that? I mean given two similarly priced and spec'ed players you buy the one with the better SQ, simple.
 
Sound quality isn't the be all and end all, especially when it's being used in a gym. You want something that is light, semi-durable, and doesn't break when you sweat into it. I use a pair of Sennheiser in-ear headphones that have a weird design that keeps them in my ears, and they are pretty much sweat resistant. Sound quality isn't ace as you can hear background noise, but this doesn't matter - I'd much rather hear the car coming when I'm running than end up underneath it.
 
Chong Warrior said:
Dude chill out....

Just makes me laugh when people try giving it the audiophile as someone always does :rolleyes: For 99% of the population any MP3 player will do (including a mobile phone) and couldn't give a **** about codecs, bit rates or whatever, me included. Most use big compression and it doesn't matter what the player is, that was the relevance of my earlier comment, k ;)
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but it's true? i also told you that the sony mobiles arent as good as my sony mp3 player. thats just the truth, and we're talking about £80-odd mp3 players, not 'audiophile' quality gear, using seperate amps and tri-driver earphones ect.
 
Alasdair said:
Sound quality isn't the be all and end all, especially when it's being used in a gym. You want something that is light, semi-durable, and doesn't break when you sweat into it. I use a pair of Sennheiser in-ear headphones that have a weird design that keeps them in my ears, and they are pretty much sweat resistant. Sound quality isn't ace as you can hear background noise, but this doesn't matter - I'd much rather hear the car coming when I'm running than end up underneath it.
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Great point. I mean when do people listen to their MP3's? On the go in noisey environments usually...
 
Great point? I'd put that down as a moot point.

No one in this thread has recommended a player solely on sound quality, if they had we would be talking top of the range £300+ Kenwoods etc. In fact it was the last thing listed in my post -"Sansa Clip, built for the job, relativity cheap, small, light, and one of the best sounding mp3 players there is."

And if you can hear environmental noise over your music then I would put that down to crapy canalphones, its really not related to the player at all, or indeed a reason to buy a crap sounding one. I wouldn't put up with it, but the guy can choose to or not, he's probably quite safe from cars in the gym. And anyway he may want to listen in quiet places with half decent headphones when not at the gym and appreciate a player that doesn't sound like someone farting in a bean tin.
 
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£30 buys a 2gb sansa clip or express (£18 for 1gb), double the storage, and a better player overall (fm radio etc), even if you want to completely disregard sound quality (which it excels at) for some insane reason.
 
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Sony NWZ-A818 - Superb player - sounds better than my Marantz KI sig HIFI setup... nowt wrong with VBR MP3 for portible use... it sounds just as good as a CD. You will only hear a differance once pumped thru good HIFI Speakers. Anyway the Sony does Lossless so this is not a problem ;)

Sonys are now drag-n-drop.
 
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