I'm with you bangraman, I think this looks very promising too. I hope it comes to the UK early in the New Year or perhaps with your contacts in the far east..........

Actually Creative came up with that GUI first and have now been awarded the patent for it.

Hi, Well I started with the same iHP-120 as you and now have a Vaio Pocket. Whilst I haven't used the newer iRiver 340 I have also used an iPod, Karma and iAudio. In my view the Vaio pocket is a really good player and very good value for money. It sounds great, at least as good as any of the...

My best guess is that it is designed that way to keep certain information in memory and/or to have the player start up fast (about 3 secs). It is like the iPod in this respect which also drains the battery when off and this hasn't put too many people off an iPod. It would be better if Sony had...

Can't comment on the Zen or iRiver but I have the Sony and am very happy with it. I also own an iRiver iHp-120, iAudio M3 and iPod Mini and the Sony is my favourite. It is not that big to either hold or carry and when people say it is smaller in the flesh that it appears in pics they are right...

This is without doubt the best I have come across and I looked at a lot for this. I record a weekly 3 hour radio show and then edit it into separate tracks and delete all the DJ chatter. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to do this with MP3DirectCut. It shows the audio as a visual graph but of...

I went through quite a few headphones (Sennheiser, AKG, Sony & Audio Technica) before I put my prejudices to one side (didn't like the look of Grados and comments about comfort) and actually tried a pair of Grados (SR325) and for me they make the music and performance come alive in my head. I...

I am just amazed that Joe has stepped in to help communicate with Spark given they are a rival company. Just goes to show what a genuine guy he must be. If your amps are as honest as you then I might be tempted to buy one. Thanks

I have little more info on the next headphone amplifier from Musical Fidelity. It is due to be released around Sept 03 and will be priced at around £200. It will still use valves but will have a new (and I am told really attractive) case design but not a cylinder more of a convention...

Tomcat, They are available from a German distributor at www.cayin.com. However I sent a message to them through a web form on their site over the weekend and have had no reply yet. You may be able to call them and get a better response. In any case I am also interested in getting one of these...

I am also frustrated by supplies of SACD titles in the UK so have resorted to buying SACDs (and DVD-As) from DVDBoxoffice.com which is based in Canada although I think they ship from Sweden. They have great prices which include shipping and a good selection of titles. For example I just bought...

I sent the company (av-2000) an email yesterday and got a reply today. This is pretty good as I sent an email to Sonic Adventure over a week ago and got nothing back like many others. Anyway I live in the UK and asked if they can ship to the UK and they said yes and provided prices in Renminbi...