Well, as the thread title states im looking for the best audio quality I can get out of a portable audio player (mp3, lossless, flac, whatever) im probably going to be using the er4ps or the er4s's with it (haven't decided on which I want to go with, but i'll probably ultimately want a...

Okay so I did a little search and couldn't find a comparison without digging deep into the pages... anyway my budgets $300 and heres what i've found... Apple 20gb ipod.. standard non-photo ipod $300 iriver h320 20gb mp3 player... its color, can record audio and display pictures... very...

Okay, so the A900s are roughly $200 and the A1000s are roughly $370 the only difference i can see (through specs) is a 2 dB increase? Can anyone comment on how much better these are? Does it justify the $170 price increase?