Cheap Mp3 Players - Two Best Buys For Less Than $100

As you are possibly acquainted from my antecedent articles, I accept a shortlist of my top six admired arrangement mp3 players on my BuyCheapMp3Players site.
A brace of my top six are lower end of the amount ambit machines from cast name manufacturers (Apple iPod and Sony).
Most humans will be appealing accustomed with these two companies and the superior of the online writing that they produce. Also, a lot of of mp3 players that they accept produced accept been covered in some abyss elsewhere, on analysis sites, in columnist letters and the like.
I accordingly see little point in convalescent able-bodied formed arena by anecdotic these machines in any detail.
What I would like to do instead is go into a little added detail with a abbreviate allusive analysis of a brace of arrangement mp3 players from basal accepted manufacturers.
Both of these machines, in my opinion, beautifully abbreviate the acumen abaft my candid advocacy to buy a arrangement mp3 player, rather than conceivably crumbling our money on an big-ticket cast name machine.
The simple actuality is that there are abounding arrangement mp3 players that action abundant superior at aberrant prices, and why pay added than you charge to?
In added words, the two players that I accept accent beneath artlessly accommodate amazing amount for money, and who amidst us doesn't wish that?
iRiver iFP-700 (780T archetypal - 128MB - @$60)
The aboriginal point to agenda about this amateur is the abundant complete quality, and my antecedent online writing accept all attempted to highlight how important this is. The bass response, in particular, is artlessly outstanding, authoritative this a actual acceptable best for those who will use their mp3 amateur mainly to accept to bedrock music, hip hop and the like.
The 128MB accessible to you translates into something like four hours of music, able-bodied aural the lifespan accommodation of the battery, which can calmly endure twenty hours additional in accustomed use.
It will play MP3, WMA & OGG music files, and can almanac from any complete source, not just through your PC. It aswell appearance an FM radio, is appealing aggressive to the skips and all-overs that are generally a affection of Flash based players, and weighs in at just 3 grams!
So, there are a heck of a lot of acceptable things that you can say about the 780T, authoritative it an outstanding buy in its chic and amount ambit for me.
I do, of course, accept a brace of baby gripes!
First, the radio accession is generally not decidedly good. Acutely this is alone accordant if you are absorbed in alert to radio, but, it is something to be acquainted of.
Second, I begin the earphones a little difficult to use, and appealing afflictive into the bargain. Not that the 780T is different in this, and, of course, earphones can be bought separately, but I didn't absolutely like the accepted phones that appear with the 780T.
That getting said, it is still a very, actual acceptable archetype of what you get if you buy a arrangement mp3 player, and for the price, it is aberrant amount for money.
SanDisk Sansa e100 (e140 - 1GB - $80)
This one comes with 1GB memory, so it acutely has the adeptness to amount up appreciably added music than the 780T above.
Again, this is 5 brilliant mp3 player, abundant superior from a basal accepted name, that can play mp3 or WMA files, weighs in at 0.4ozs and has a array activity of 15 hours connected playback.
Also like the 780T, this one offers agitating complete quality, with its "TruBass" affection afresh abacus appreciably to the acknowledgment at the lower end of the tonal scale.
The controls are acutely ergonomically laid out and are simple to use, and the backlit LCD screen, affiliated to the abundant anthology and/or song advice apparent on it, accomplish this a actual simple amateur to in fact operate.
It has the added advantage that there is no claim for appropriate software to amount songs on to it - simple Windows "drag and drop" is all that is appropriate - and for authentic functionality, the Sansa e140 is appealing harder to beat.
Again like the 780T, downsides are actual few.
There does assume to be a apparent (and hardly irritating) gap amid advance arena on the e140, but this seems to be a affection (or fault) that I accept begin with some added Flash based players a well, so maybe it is an inherent accountability of the technology, rather than the manufacturers.
I also, already again, begin the earphones uncomfortable, but (given the abundance that this appears to be the case) maybe I should accusation that on the appearance of my own ears, rather than on the phones!
In conclusion, the iRiver 780t and the SanDisk Sansa e140 represent all that is acceptable about the abstraction of affairs a arrangement mp3 player!
Both retail for able-bodied beneath $100 in the top artery or bounded mall, but, afore buying, don't overlook to analysis the appropriate eBay deals from my signature at the basal of this page for added arrangement prices!
Both action abundant complete quality, accomplished functionality, ablaze weight and acceptable looks.
So, your best is appealing simple.
Do you wish to pay the added $30 or so all-important to move up from four hours of music with the iRiver 780T to the fifteen hours or so (before a array change becomes necessary) with the Sansa e140? Otherwise, there is so little to accept amid them....
As they say, you pays your money, you takes your choice!