[sjino]

Now THERE'S an easy to remember model name. Not at all like that hard-to-remember "Shuffle" or "Micro" or anything else without a number. Is Sony deliberately trying to scare away customers?

This is the mp3 player that looks like a large coin, not the one that looks like a cigarette lighter. Amazon has mixed reviews, which is pretty typical. The NW-E105 is the 512MB model, but the 1GB model is also out now.

I'm curious about sound quality for CD tracks converted to Atrac or Atrac+ format. I'm also curious about the Sony conversion software, which I hear is horrendously bad and slow.

I do like the price, the fact that it uses a replacable battery, and has a screen, but if sound quality is marginal and ease of transfer are a pain I'll go with something else.

Anyone have any experience with these new Sony units?

 

[andrew3199]

I am actually looking into one of these for use at work, but I don't want to drop the $'s without a review, I guess that's the way Head-Fi has made us.