Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Lower prices for the Zen V: in a move that raises the value-for-money bar considerably, the Zen V now sells for 30 bucks less—this means you can get the 1/2/4GB versions for $90/$120/$160 respectively. For comparison’s sake, the 1GB Nano sells for $150 while the same-size Shuffle sells for $100.
Grado Labs has started shipping the GS1000: The new flagship of their headphone line, introduced at the International Head-Fi Convention in New York, where it gathered some rave reviews. Bass, mids, highs; it seems it does all equally well and the new cushion design is supposed to be very comfortable. Is this ideal pair of [...]
Last week, Creative Labs introduced two miniaturized versions of its flagship Zen Vision:M player, the Zen V and Zen V Plus players. What the Plus does that the plain V doesn’t, is video (mainly: MPEG-4, WMV and DivX) and FM radio. And that difference will set you back a mere $10-$30 bucks (depending on the [...]