Buying an MP3 player was a surprisingly difficulty decision for me. I knew I didn't want an iPod, and I knew I wanted a player that was atleast 20GB, but even given those prerequisites choosing a player is still mighty difficult. Last week I settled on the Rio Karma, primarily because it was much cheaper than the other choice (the Cowon iAudio X5). I got the player on Thursday, and I'm fairly certain that it was love at first sight for me and my Karma. Then today it was announced that Rio is dead. Just ...
So Tom's Hardware reviewed the new Creative sound card recently, the X-Fi, and they seem to be pleased overall. This is a pretty big move for Creative, who have been relying on the Audigy architecture in their cards for the past 5 years or so. There have been significant upgrades to the Audigy lineup with the Audigy 2 and 2 ZS (which they refer to as the Audigy 3), but even the latest Audigy cards are essentially running on a 5 year old architecture. Creative has a stranglehold over the surround-sound gaming market, but they weren't ...
My research into digital audio players for the column has led me to believe that I absolutely must have one. This is how I generally buy things--after significant research. I'm going to have to watch out for this bad habit, as one of my next topics is the Sony PSP, and my resistance against buying that is already being worn thin by the amazing press it's getting. While looking for my perfect player, I realized that there really is nothing that satisfies all of my many requirements.
Basically I want a player that:
Has ...
I'm probably going to be writing several posts about the progress of the hard-drive mp3 market. The interesting thing right now is this move towards the smaller 5/6GB players for roughly the same price we were paying for 20-40 GB players last year. It started with the Ipod mini, and even then it didn't make much sense given that you could buy an Ipod that held 20GB and was only slightly bigger for $50 more.
At first I was interested in HDD players because I wanted to have the ability to carry around my entire music collection ...
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