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Well even though I've supported the "subjective perspective" here on this thread I feel inclined to post some objective information regarding cowon.Unlike any ipod that exists,my cowon plays FLAC and APE files.Whether these formats sound better than mp3 or the apple formats is irrelevent to ME.This is because my music collection is mostly is FLAC and APE.
That's partly true. Older iPods can run Rockbox which supports FLAC and APE. And the Sansa Clip+, out of the box, supports FLAC with the factory firmware (and also has significantly better low frequency performance than the Cowon I tested). The Sansa also runs Rockbox so can support APE--as can any of the other several dozen players that run Rockbox.
Finally, for what it's worth, I ripped a bunch of APE CD's back before FLAC became popular and eventually found a way to transcode them all in one big batch, loss free with tags intact, to FLAC. That's the great thing about lossless compression--you can covert it to other formats with no loss. APE has been largely left behind these days. You're likely to encounter less and less support for APE going forward although projects like Rockbox offer some hope.