wolfboy
New Head-Fier
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Yeah, I like falling asleep to music too. As far as I know, the only players with a great interface and Sleep Timer are the iPods so I was hesitant of ever buying a different brand player for the longest time. If only Apple put as much effort into their sound as their interface (1st gen Nano mind you). Guess I can use it as a night time player.
The Zune was the only other player which had a great interface, but no sleep timer. At least with the Sony, there's the sound quality to warrant a buy. It's only been a day, but this thing already completely destroys the iPod in the sound department. Everything else I like more on the iPod.
There's quite a few things I don't like with the Sony:
- case-sensitive names
- no seeking except for a very slow RW/FF, AFAIK
- slow scrolling
- ugly generic interface that should have been updated
- no sleep timer
- no gapless playback
- volume knob too easy to accidentally push
- hold button too easy to accidentally push
- can't set volume limit to anything lower than 12 (I'd set it at 8 if I could)
- unstable support for Macs
- a lot of other minor details
Positives:
+ best sounding MP3 player I've heard so far (most important quality I guess)
+ big, clear screen
+ drag and drop is nice, but very slow
+ new model looks much cleaner than the a818 (those buttons were blah)
But overall, I don't regret this one bit. It's a killer player
The Zune was the only other player which had a great interface, but no sleep timer. At least with the Sony, there's the sound quality to warrant a buy. It's only been a day, but this thing already completely destroys the iPod in the sound department. Everything else I like more on the iPod.
There's quite a few things I don't like with the Sony:
- case-sensitive names
- no seeking except for a very slow RW/FF, AFAIK
- slow scrolling
- ugly generic interface that should have been updated
- no sleep timer
- no gapless playback
- volume knob too easy to accidentally push
- hold button too easy to accidentally push
- can't set volume limit to anything lower than 12 (I'd set it at 8 if I could)
- unstable support for Macs
- a lot of other minor details
Positives:
+ best sounding MP3 player I've heard so far (most important quality I guess)
+ big, clear screen
+ drag and drop is nice, but very slow
+ new model looks much cleaner than the a818 (those buttons were blah)
But overall, I don't regret this one bit. It's a killer player