@arranger wrote:
Playing mp3 files from numerous sources including downloads from Amazon, rips from .wav files and CDs, swapped grey market files, home studio generated files ALL play fine on the following:
WinAmp or WMP on XP PC
CDeX
n-Track
Tascam DAW
CDR mp3CD
DVR mp3DVD
Sony NWZ-e438f
The same files ALL play slow and off pitch on the following:
Sansa Fuze
Sansa Clip
It shouldn’t take a $12000 turntable to get reliable playback (and at that price, by the way, I wouldn’t take 1%, either.) When you spend your life loving and pursuing ‘the sound,’ you don’t accept sub-standard reproduction. If everyone accepts this type of fault, another nail in the coffin of art appreciation will be set. Think of it as selecting a color of paint or fabric for your living environment and finding that the manufacturer has decided that they can alter it to simplify their offerings to you.
My advice:
Don’t accept substitutions for the sound you expect. Demand accurate reproduction.
You completely missed my point. My $12,000 turntable (which is still considered one of the finest ever made) still isn’t completely accurate and it’s many, many times the cost of the fuze. Also, the fuze isn’t meant to be a perfectly accurate, portable playback studio. It’s a portable media player, and never intended to be the perfect playback medium.
Like CB, I also paid $60 (American) for both of my 8GB fuzes, and still am amazed at how much functionality it has for the money. In any manufactured product there is a cost/benefit ratio that has to be calculated. I’m sure perfect sound reproduction is possible from the Fuze or the Clip, but is it worth the time and expense when only a fraction of all owners have an issue with it?
You can demand anything you desire, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to get it.
