Hifiman HM801. Sheer good quality sound for you.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1345074&hl=




On a more serious note, do give us a price range. Else it'd be hard to recommend something.

For your budget, the Sansa Clip+. If you can top your budget above RM200, close to RM300 or so, you can grab the Gumstick with a good Hippo IEM bundled.

Sound quality of the Gumstick, well, of course, is much better than the Clip+ too. But if you can't extend your budget, Clip+ is the most versatile, best bet for you.

http://www.rockbox.org/




Basically it's a firmware replacement for some specified players.

Ah, that'd be a better word for it. Thanks.

Yes, it does. Seems that you have a rare gem there. Don't want to get it modded?

Check up iMod. It basically bypasses the internal amplifier and some capacitors, drawing pure line out signal from the DAC, so you can choose to hook on an amp of your choice. Jaben provides the mod actually.

Ah heck, just PM me and I'll provide you more details on the parts and so on la.

Philips GoGear SA011. Battery life is rated around 10 hours though, didn't read up reviews yet but 10 hours is abit.. Short.

I guess 10 hours is still better than the Clip+ with its utterly weak battery. *giggles* Two of my Clip+ gotten 6~7 hours at most.

Depends on what your friend would love best. Usabilty? Design? Battery life? Sound quality?

Oh and do consider the iPod shuffle 4th gen too, looks great as a gift as well. you may be able to get them cheap on garage sales.

Ahem ahem. Your turn to poison people?

Yes he still does, I can confirm it. Was bugging him about some pricing earlier yesterday.

Sound quality wise an iMod definitely triumphs. It's more of a question whether you can live with a brick of player + amp + <insert whatever you may chain on your rig here> lol.

Get the latest generations/6th Gen onwards, then grab yourself a CLAS/Fostex HP-P1.

If that's the case grab the 6th Gen. I've tested the 5.5G and it does not work with the Fostex HP-P1. *looks at it by my desk doing nothing* lol

In the future = There's the possibility. So grab the 6th Gen. lol

This post has been edited by Enigmatic: Dec 5 2011, 10:04 PM

Eh? Oh.. The 5.5G technically isn't mine.

The owners didn't contact me back despite numerous attempts of me contacting them.

If the hard disk breaks down, grab a toshiba 240GB 1.8" ZIP hard disk...

Anyhow, no doubt the DAC section in the older iPods are superior, hence people came out with mods for it. However the CLAS and Fostex sounds much more superior (and quite abit more expensive) than the older iPods regardless of modification, so... Ya.