I like to know what your listening impressions is without the looking that the graphs, but from the looks of many posts, you justify your point about no differences in DAPs by graphs. I understand that there is no other useful justification medium that is universal as our ears are different. Although, I'm a graph man myself. It is no lie that you bring up Clip+ when you post RMAA. Based on that and you are a mod on a forum that DAPs are the main topic, I think its reasonable for me to speculate. If you don't hear any differences, thats great, you can save a lot of money. Personally, If I don't hear any differences, I would go with the cheapest player possible, but I see that you own other DAPs? I guess user interface, srceen etc.. has much to the value to DAP besides the sound. I personally would not own Hifiman(thing looks ugly, user interface would be a nightmare, but may have great sound, I would really like to try to break my opinions on it). It was a great thread you started about the rolloffs, but I've realized after trying different DAPs, I have realized I have to make the judgements by ear, not the graphs. After trying Sflo:2, a poorly designed DAP(the user interface, not the audio circuit), I got to say my opinion on not very well recognized Chinese brands have changed, it does indeed sound better than other DAPs(I would be interested in seeing some graph comparasons). The user interface on the other hand.... Graphs could be useful at times. About Sansa being a great player for its price, there are other player in that range. Sound is subjective I know, but IMO, I can't see why there can't be better players in that price range. Also, I know you are a writer for a website that is called "Anything but Ipod," so I'm not going to be asking your opinions on ipod vs other DAPs, thats for sure. I think I will start a website called "Ipods and nothing else."
I know there are plenty of websites promoting ipod.
I don't know how much in-depth listening is qualified for talking about its sound, but I've owned Fuze for a year, just recently purchased it again. When I had the Fuze for the first time, I haven't even tried other DAPs, still didn't like its sound. I will have to return the fuze, I got it to try the line out to see if it is the volume amp that kills its sounds.. Don't like Fuze, and never will.