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05 May 2009
Why I bought a used Zen when my old one self-destructed
3 of 4 found this helpful There are a lot of things I like about the Zen. The fact that it's built to be disposable is not one of them; yet, I couldn't face life without it. So, when my 18-month-old 2gb Zen quit working, I jumped on Ebay and found a used 4gb Zen, used, for $40 with free shipping. I bought it immediately and I'm glad I did, although I'm a little bit PO'd that the old one is not repairable. It's designed that way; the battery is not even replaceable without cracking the case open, even if you can find a replacement. So I guess I will have to buy a new (used) Zen every year or two; but at $40, I can afford to!
The Zen is about the size of a stack of (about a dozen) credit cards. It has a bright, clear 2 1/2" screen and gets about 15 to 20 hours on a charge. It has great sound with most earbuds, especially the JVC "Marshmallow" type.
One of the coolest features is the SD card slot. I have a couple of 8gb SD cards (which cost about $30 each, but prices are steadily declining) each of which can hold about 40 CDs worth of MP3s, hundreds of photos, or several movies. Of course, you probably won't watch Hollywood movies on a 2 1/2" screen, and if you wanted to, Creative's video converter app would probably take several days to convert them to the oddball proprietary .avi format this player requires. Short videos work fine, though.
I'm a lover of jazz, funk and jam band music and so I download a lot of MP3s from Emusic.com (at 25 cents a tune). I will never buy DRM-afflicted downloads and have no interest whatsoever in the dreck churned out by the major music companies. The Zen plays MP3s, WMAs and even WAV files, and that's basically all I need it to do. It has a decent FM stereo tuner and a nice EQ (I leave it on the "custom" setting with a bit of bass & treble boost and mid cut, which sounds good with all kinds of music).
TO BE CONTINUED.......
08 July 2016
SHINY!
0 of 1 found this helpful This is a remarkably bright light for its size. NO WAY itʻs 2600 lumens, though; I would guess around 600, which is still pretty darn bright! The brand name on it is SkyWolfEye (I guess they are scraping the barrel for brand names these days). The other light I own with that brand name claims 1200 lumens and delivers maybe 80. They are both decent for their low prices, though.
This light was quite inexpensive, and offers a feature I didnʻt expect; itʻs rechargeable! Has a little coaxial power jack opposite the on-off button, and I found an old cell-phone charger that fits. Charges up the battery (a 145000) overnight, but thereʻs no indicator or any way to know when charge is completed. Apparently also works on an AA battery, but I havenʻt tried it that way. Probably dimmer. I wouldnʻt try to charge the AA battery; it will probably explode or swell up and get stuck inside the flashlight. Maybe itʻll charge an NiMh.
The black coating started wearing off right away, but it still looks decent with just a few places where the aluminum shows through. There are other 14500/AA LED lights that are less bulky and lighter (and equally bright), so shop around on Ebay. (There are also 1AAA/10440 lights that are TINY and almost as bright as this one, but battery life is a bit short.)
24 December 2007
The Creative Zen V Plus 4GB with EP-630 earbuds
3 of 3 found this helpful This was basically an impulse buy, although I'd been thinking about buying a flash-based mp3 player with a color screen for a few weeks. My Creative Muvo 2 player (also 4GB) which cost me $159 3 or 4 yrs ago, has its weaknesses, like a tiny monochrome LCD screen (text/symbols only) and a mechanical hard drive prone to skipping and glitching. So when I saw a refurbished Zen V plus on Ebay I quickly looked up the Cnet review (very positive) and decided to bid on it.
Using Auction Sniper (by Auctiva) I was able to win it for under $50 INCLUDING S&H!(Check out auctionsniper.com-it's awesome! And tell them musiconmaui sent you, so we can both get free snipes!)
The refurbished one didn't include the pouch or lanyards that come with a new one, but did include the USB cable, earbuds (not very good ones), software CD, leaflets, and a short male 2.5 to male 3.5 cord for line-in recording. You can actually load this thing up with music WITHOUT a computer!
The quick start pamphlet tells you to load up the software BEFORE you hook up the player to your computer, but that's not necessary if you only want to charge it up and load music and/or pictures. You can "drag and drop" and even rip CDs using Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player. You DO need the software to load videos, though.
Using the Creative EP-630 earbuds, which I'd previously won on Ebay, this little thing sounds great! Plenty of volume and good tone quality. The EP-630s are very efficient. They deliver a lot more volume, bass, and clarity than any others I've tried, including my $60 Sonys. I'm not crazy about the factory EQ presets but using "Custom" I was able to dial in a sound I really like. I switch between that and "EQ off" depending on the material.
The 1.5 OLED screen is very bright, although not visible in sunlight. Even in bright indoor lighting, though, it's pretty vivid. I didn't expect a lot of detail from 128 x 128 pixels, but because of its small size it looks clear, with no obvious pixellation. I was amazed at how good the pre-loaded videos (Creative TV spots in Japanese) looked, and my own videos (taken with a Casio EX-70) look good, too. A 10-minute video took up more space than 200 songs, so I don't think you'll be watching movies on your Zen v-plus, but it's great for home videos except for the lack of a speaker. I've ordered a y-adapter so I can plug in a second set of earbuds.
This player is half the size and weight of a deck of cards. I've been wearing it on a lanyard around my neck and carrying a good chunk of my CD collection and several albums worth of photos inside it. After a couple of weeks, the novelty has not yet worn off.
On the internal (non-replaceable?) battery, I'm getting about 12 hours of combined listening and photo viewing on a charge. I've ordered an aftermarket charger, as I'm not thrilled about having to fire up my Sony laptop for six hours every time I want to charge it up, and that's the only reason I'm rating it "good" rather than "excellent".
Addendum; I've been recording gigs with this 'lil buggah (right from the PA) and getting really nice recordings in WMA format, which I can burn to CD. It has a 2.5mm stereo line-in jack, and can record many hours of great-sounding music. This line-in recording is a GREAT feature, not found in most players.