[Joe Bloggs]

I just found out today that there are so many eXpanium models by now! Has anyone bought the newer ones? Are they good?

OTOH the 201 is still the only Philips MP3 CD player I've seen

I suppose Philips stuff appear in Europe first, just like Sony and Panasonic stuff appear in Asia first?

(Oh, and yeah, all those new discus-shaped pcdps eg D-EJ990, D-EJ1000, SLCT590, 790 are flying everywhere around the markets here

I don't suppose anyone here has heard those--should I be the guinea pig?

 

[edog]

The Rio Volt SP250 seems to be much better than any of the Expaniums. The Expaniums don't seem to have better sound or more features, so there's really no compelling reason to buy them. I jog with my MD player, not my MP3CD player, so anti-skip is not a factor for me.

Also, the EXP503 has at least one very annoying bug. If a song comes after a song with a longer name, part of the longer song name will be appended to the shorter song name. For example, the following sequence can occur:

- 'Breathe' plays; 'Breathe' appears as the song title
- 'Time' by Pink Floyd plays; 'Timethe' ('Time' + 'the') appears as the song title

You can read the original Usenet review for more info.

Some of the Expanium models have AAC support, which should be interesting, because a well-tuned AAC encoder can produce better sounding files than even the best MP3 encoder.

 

[tracylynn]

has anyone compared the sony to the rio volt 250?

btw, which has a better sounds the riovolt 250 or the iRIver 350?

 

[rickcr42]

anyone listen to this baby yet
http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=42%2D8027

or how 'bout this little sucker
http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=42%2D8019

 

[rickcr42]

guess not

 

[Toe]

Will somebody please test the AAC quality on these things?