Phillips GoGear Spark 4GB. Very very tiny, surprisingly good user interface, and quite good sound quality. Fits in the tiny pouch my Sennheiser in-ear phones came in alongside the headphones. Very impressed with this thing for $69 from DSE on sale. The only real downside is I had to convert my AAC to MP3 for it as it doesn’t support many formats. I picked it up as my Nexus One sounds absolutely dreadful through my in-ear phones, but really great through my huge Sennheiser HDsomethingsomethings. I’m suspecting some impedance mismatch. At first I was thinking of getting some better quality large headphones for the Nexus One (my Sennheiser HDs I picked up very cheaply for gaming and have a really cheap and nasty cable) then realised that a micro MP3 player would be both cheaper and easier to carry around than new headphones. 

Phillips GoGear Spark 4GB. Very very tiny, surprisingly good user interface, and quite good sound quality. Fits in the tiny pouch my Sennheiser in-ear phones came in alongside the headphones. Very impressed with this thing for $69 from DSE on sale. The only real downside is I had to convert my AAC to MP3 for it as it doesn’t support many formats.

I picked it up as my Nexus One sounds absolutely dreadful through my in-ear phones, but really great through my huge Sennheiser HDsomethingsomethings. I’m suspecting some impedance mismatch. At first I was thinking of getting some better quality large headphones for the Nexus One (my Sennheiser HDs I picked up very cheaply for gaming and have a really cheap and nasty cable) then realised that a micro MP3 player would be both cheaper and easier to carry around than new headphones. 

1 year ago