Wow! Sansa Fuze- color me impressed- Fuze appreciation thread - Page 14

I wonder if any of you Sony/Fuze listeners out there would be willing to do a little test that I just ran for myself and give me your opinions.

Listen to this song (don't worry it's a legitimate free download), in particular from 1:40 - 2:18 where it is all piano, and give me your impressions on how the two players compare.

http://www.garageband.com/mp3/Fisher...0LdsaSnZ1m0Z2k

I'm probably going way overboard on comparing these players! Then again I didn't join this site because I'm casual about my music

I hope Sansa releases a larger capacity Fuze to pair with a 32gb microsd. Just a hunch -- With 8gb sdcards so cheap it almost doesn't make sense to release just a 16gb Fuze, so perhaps (I hope, please, please) a 32gb Fuze will be forthcoming. Can you say "my 64gb FLAC player next year?!"

Anyone tried playing video with their fuze? how's the quality?

Bad.

Yeah, even the album art looks pretty poor.

http://search.live.com/cashback/prod.../4018/16045498
Anyone want to try buying a Fuze from here? If MS provides the cashback, I'm sure you'll at least be getting most of your money back, with a $10 risk of getting a fake/no product. If the stores themselves provide cashback, this could be risky.

Has anyone dealed with Deal Source Direct before?

When something looks to good to be true it usually is.

wow, a $10 8gb fuze. that's crazy lol

all that have fuze, do you use sandisk memory cards or dofferent brands? i'm thinking of getting adata class 4 as it is cheaper that sandisk's class 2, but how do fuze work with adata memory cards?

It should be fine. Sandisk restricting memory card brands would be idiotic (despite having their own range).

A higher resolution (and maybe even slightly larger, 2 inch) screen would put me all over the Fuze. A rockbox port in the future would solve all other problems.

So long as you don't try to watch any videos off the micro SDHC (reportedly Kingston micro SDHC don't play nicely with videos) any brand should be fine. Some brands may take a little longer to put music on the expansion memory stick but once it is on there you won't hear a difference between brands for music.

Interesting. That's pretty much what I thought too, I grew up playing piano and with the Fuze I could really hear the force each key was hit with. It sounded amazingly natural. The Sony had all the sound of the note there, but was still missing something. Perhaps in emphasizing the highs some of the audio winds up a tad flattened out.

That said I am also finding the Fuze is a bit more revealing of weaknesses anywhere in the chain. My sub-par car stereo, cheaper headphones, poor encodes, are all laid pretty bare. The Sony has a way of making all my music sound pretty good no matter what I play it through.

In a lot of ways, the Fuze really reminds me of the sound I got from my very first mp3 player, the Zen xtra, which I absolutely loved.

Well I guess that's all I'm going to ramble on about this. I'll probably do some mp3/flac comparing to see if I can really tell a difference there or not and then it will be decision time.

I appreciate all the info everyone has provided. Thanks!

-justaguy

This is an amazing player!

My impressions!

My new Sansa Fuze player