Creative Micro Zen vs I-River ihp-140

[JANER]

Some of you may remember I got the I-river 40 gig mp3 player for my 40th last year and I was never completely happy with it, not being loud enough was one of my main gripes, cost of it was €449
Well this xmas my gf bought her brother a Creative Micro zen and I bought her one( €279)and last night decided to compare with the exact same song playing in the 2 of them and the best sound/quality was her fking Creative!!!!!

Also the bog standard headphones that came with the I-River (b4 I switched to an expensive set) were absolutly crap and the standard with the Creative are quite quite good just a notch below my expensive Sonys

Just thought I would post this for anyone not sure about what to get.

[WindyMiller]

dam the cage is shit you cant even link images ;(

/nelson voice Har Har!

[JANER]

mmm adjusted some settings on the i-river, more bass etc and er it maybe is slightly better now not much in it, I am going to add some mp3 gain to it for more vloume!

[JANER]

no edit eitehr in here ;]
volume

[JANER]

either

[WindyMiller]

er i edited my post, its just u caged noobs who cant edit :P


/edit good win in the cricket :E

[cahonis]

I've got an i-HP140 and ahve to say the sound quality and volume are both excellent. I never use the stock headphones supplied with any portable audio as they are always uncomfortable for me.

[JANER]

Ya Cahonis the sound prob is good with YOUR music, Punk music is almost 99% of teh time produced shyte/inferior to "normal" music titles/artists

;]

I am keeping the i-River now as I have it a better soundnow then the Zen and far more options etc

The Creative is a good little baby though......

[cahonis]

I was gonna say mebbe ur mp3s r of crap quality but didn't wanna sound like I was baiting you :D

/edit what do you mean by YOUR (ie mine) music. I'm fairly certain you're not aware of my musical tastes :)

[SirPsychosexy]

zen touch, i've yet to use it so no comment on quality

[SirPsychosexy]

http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20041007/


seems ok

[JANER]

I was gonna say mebbe ur mp3s r of crap quality but didn't wanna sound like I was baiting you :D

/edit what do you mean by YOUR (ie mine) music. I'm fairly certain you're not aware of my musical tastes :)


A] No not the qulaity of mp3's but most Punk music is independently produced

B] Any other music besides Punk is "YOUR MUSIC" etc :|

[Dilbert]

Ive bought the Mrs a Creative Muvo TX (512mb one) as one of her xmas pressies, nice little MP3 player, ideal for the gym.. will give it a test myself over xmas and the probs buy myself one as well.