I have a little spare money to spend right now but dont know what to buy. no ipod please, my sister have one and itunes is a piece of shit budget $200CAD.
If you can bear the bad interface, the Cowon D2 is about as good as they come. Best audio on the market and good video support too.
The idea of any hi-fi system is toreproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberatelyadd distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simplynot high fidelity.If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but byadding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP