Creative zen 4gb => Sansa Clip 8gb

[dragulagu]

Hi head-fi,
I currently have (as stated in the title) a creative zen 4gb as my portable player, however the sound i get out of it using my px 100's is ok but I have the feeling it can be much better.

So after searching around it seems the sansa clip gives excellent quality, so my question: Is it worth it to change from my zen to a sansa clip or an even better device (suggestions are welcome

)in the same category. The 3 only aspects i look at are sound (offcourse), battery life and (not that important) portability.

Cheers and thanks in advance!

 

[jpelg]

I believe that Zen runs a Sigmatel audio chip, which sounds very good. It also has SD-card expandability.

For mp3 play (320k), I prefer my Memorex brand Sigmatel-based flash player's sound to the Clip. The Clip has no expandability. It's sibling, the Fuze (same audio internals) has a micro-SD slot, but SD-card expandability is more useful to me than micro-SD.

The only potential advantage of the Sansa is FLAC.

 

[dragulagu]

so all in all not worth the change

 

[Earwax]

Which Zen do you have? I have a Zen V Plus and I think the Clip beats beats it by a mile.

 

[roebeet]

I have a Clip and the PX 100's - I don't think they sound very good together.

Not so much the Clip's fault, however - I get much better sound with the Clip + my FiiO E5 + my Sony MDR-V6 cans. The PX 100's are OK, but you should probably consider a headphone upgrade before looking into a DAP upgrade.

 

[dragulagu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Earwax /img/forum/go_quote.gif Which Zen do you have? I have a Zen V Plus and I think the Clip beats beats it by a mile.

Just the regular zen 4gb version

On the note of the PX100's, for me these work perfectly fine, when they are connected to my home audio setup they do have a great sound, it's just on the portable section that the sound is ok/good.

 

[bodine1231]

The clip is the best workout device ever,lol. The price is amazing for what you get,sound quality is out of this world!

 

[blacknile]

I own a Sansa Clip, a Creative Zen and Sennheiser Px100. With properly encoded Mp3s (UberStandard.org :: Über Music Extraction Guide) there's basically no difference to my ears between these devices - with the Creative sounding a bit fuller and the Clip sounding a bit thinner on 0.01% of the tracks I have.

 

[dragulagu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blacknile /img/forum/go_quote.gif I own a Sansa Clip, a Creative Zen and Sennheiser Px100. With properly encoded Mp3s (UberStandard.org :: Über Music Extraction Guide) there's basically no difference to my ears between these devices - with the Creative sounding a bit fuller and the Clip sounding a bit thinner on 0.01% of the tracks I have.

thank you very much for this responce, i'll stay on the zen for now

 

[a_tumiwa]

sansa clip sound quality is good but the battery is bad