Sheep said:
Would you really put your workout second seat to your music? I can't stand bad music all the time, let alone when I'm working out.
Ipod have pretty nasty headphone outs, and Creative models do everything they do, and more, for less.
Uh, what?
Everything I've read on the subject says that iPods have *great* headphone out ports. Mine sounds fantastic on my home stereo. The headphones they come with kinda suck, though.
Note: the iPod 5G has improved older iPod audio out quality by quite a bit and it apparently has about the same quality as the Shuffle and Nano.
HiFiVoice:
"I've also performed some quick-and-dirty comparisons with other MP3 playback devices (e.g. iRiver H10, Creative Zen Vision M:3, Sony Ericsson W800, Palm Tungsten T3, Cowon iAudio X5L). In most cases the iPod sounded overall better (more coherent and transparent)"
Stereophile:
"The compressed formats began to show some real promise at 320kbps. Definition, detail, and soundstaging were all impressive, and high-frequency response was almost liquid in its lack of edge effects."
PCMag:
"Apple's new iPod shuffle has stellar audio performance. In the bass registers, it blows away the competition"
"I believe I proved that my ears were right: Several other hard drive players edge out older Apple players, but the iPod shuffle does them all one better"
iLounge:
"All of these fixes make us considerably happier about the 5G iPod’s audio performance than we were before, and we’re thrilled to see that Apple has addressed them."
And BTW, Creative doesn't have a single player that competes with the Nano or Shuffle (or even the Video). All "competing" Creative players are all much larger and heavier.
