SanDisk Sansa Clip 1 GB MP3 Player (Black)

I am a 40-ish year old musician who is very "aware" of the quality of sound, but not anal about it. I love great sound quality like anyone else. A well-rounded sound will have nice highs, mids and lows. My Sansa 1GB Clip MP3 player is the new audio love-of-my-life for my daily walks while enjoy music. Using my computer, I rip my CD's at 128kbps which truly IS adequate for a real good listening experience and perfect for storing plenty of music into 1 gb of storage spaceon this MP3 player. The Sansa has a good clean sound with various Equalizer settings, including the option of selecting your own "custom" settings, which is what I do. The Sansa is very easy to navigate due to an adequate screen size and, more importantly, well-placed buttons that are easy to press. The player is so small and light-weight, that it is effortless to carry with you. I have owned MANY MP3 players in my time, and the Sansa is one of THEE best, easily! Now please pay attention to what I am going to say, here. If you want to make the BEST of your listening experience, get yourself a real good set of headphones or earbuds. Many MP3 players come packaged with inferior ear-wear. In my case, I used the Sennheiser PX-200 heaphones that go over your head, like traditional heaphones. They are lightweight and even fold up. These provide a wonderful bass sound with plenty of mids and highs. The Sennheiser model compliments the Sansa Clip MP3 player perfectly! If you prefer earbuds, you can find some nice choices made bySennheiser or Sony. If you want additional tonal choices, you can get a 3-band equalizer that is made by Koss. It comes with a cable so that you connect your Koss to your MP3 player and then plug your headphones into your Koss, which runs on batteries. But really, the Sennheiser heaphones would be enough. I highly-recommend that you go that route! I only take time to write a review when I am truly excited about a product, and the Sansa Clip 1GB is worth every word!!!

Update: 9-17-2009: Although there are a few books that still do not work with Apple iPod/iProducts, OverDrive books are now transferable to most Apple iProducts. The trick is to open iTunes AND the OverDrive console and it will convert the protected content for your iPod etc.Because of the conversion process, it does take MUCH LONGER to transfer an audiobook to an iPod so in my opinion, the Sansa Clip a still the superior product for this usage.--------------------------------------------------Update: Battery on my Clip gave up charging just before the one year warranty period was over. I use it almost daily. I contacted Sansa and was able to obtain a replacement Clip at no charge. They did need to know when I purchased it (Amazon makes this easy with a shipping invoice available in your purchasing history.) Sansa did want to know if I had the original box but when I did not, it was not an issue. Sansa provided a postage paid label to return the dead Clip. My replacement is working great. This was very good customer service experience for me.--------------------------------------------------I got this mp3 player in order to listen to Overdrive audiobooks that I download from the public library. I have an IPod that I happily use with my Audible books but Ipods were not compatible with Overdrive at the time I purchased this. This is no longer the case. See above.The Overdrive audio software works perfectly with the device and books transfer very easily.Update: It is a good idea to go ahead and install the SanDisk Firmware Updater on your computer at [...]It automatically checks for firmware updates whenever when I plug in my Clip.--------------------------------------------------Now the player works beautifully with the Overdrive books. It holds my bookmark (stopping point) if I remember to click hold (top of the circle) and fast forwards perfectly if I need to find my place.It has great sound, the FM tuner works wonderfully. I love the small size and the clip feature is fantastic.There is not a reference to the firmware updater site anywhere in the product literature which is unfortunate. Happily I was able to find the information I needed on the Sansa Forums.