# Successor to the Fuze: Clip Zip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Sansa Fuze\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/successor-to-the-fuze-clip-zip/42142 "2011-09-02T15:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![marvin\_martian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@marvin\_martian](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/marvin_martian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/successor-to-the-fuze-clip-zip/42142/3 "2011-09-02T23:42:48Z")
> @black_rectangle wrote: > Well, this is interesting. A new Sansa toy, the Clip Zip >   > [http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Clip-Zip/SANDISK-INTRODUCES-SANSA-CLIP-ZIP-MP3-PLAYER/td-p/242594](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/sandisk-introduces-sansa-clip-zip-mp3-player/28435) >   > With these features: >   > - [microSDHC](http://www.sandisk.com/consumer-products/mobile-memory)  **card slot**  lets consumers instantly expand the player’s storage capacity-up to 32 additional gigabytes2 (a maximum of 8,0003 songs total between the internal and external memory). > - **Easy compatibility**  with all major music, audio book and podcast formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC and Audible files. > > Yes, AAC is in there. And according to the user manual, it does gapless too. >   > Physical controls, not touchscreen. Looks like the Fuze in a matchbook size. The crucial question, of course, is sound quality. Personally, I didn’t like the Clip + sound quality. Let’s see what the reviews say. The successor to the Fuze was the Fuze+, albeit a flawed successor. I am curious what you didn’t like about the Clip+ sound though, given that it runs off the same sound chip as the Fuze did. I do remember that the custom EQ was slightly improved from Fuze –\>Clip+, from when I had both. The one on the Zip works pretty well,  although it’s not Rockbox-grade. Basically, the only thing the Fuze has over the Clip Zip is battery life. The three players I am using the most these days are the Clip+ w/Rockbox, the Clip Zip, and my Touch 4G.  I’ve been doing a lot of testing with the Zip, and thankfully am almost done with that…and listening to the C+  as always on-the-go.   I use the Touch for podcasts, gaming and apps (and music if the Clips aren’t nearby) , mostly at home. I can get great sound out of any one of the three players, but the C+ and Touch have more customizable sound than the Zip if needed. The Touch does have a little bit higher output power though, which is nice when driving speakers. Actually, I couldn’t really say that any one of my six players sound noticeably better than the rest…they really all sound very, very good. The Cowons are trickier to use if you want/need  to tweak your sound…all kinds of stuff to play with, but it’s easy to get sucked in by the enhancements and end up with an artificial sound. Anyways, **B-R** , to get back to your original question, before the firmware upgrade yesterday,  I was of the opinion that out of the Sansas I’ve had, assuming original SanDisk firmware only, then the Zip is tops, by a _very_ small margin, and assuming no EQ is being used, I rate it as equal to the Rockboxed Clip+ . Since the upgrade, I’ve been running battery life tests, so I haven’t gone back for serious back-to-back testing…but hopefully the update didn’t change the sound. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/successor-to-the-fuze-clip-zip/42142)._