ATMT SeXen MP190 2GB

There's a great sound out of the ATMT sexen player, really deep bass ( I switched to a Koss "The Plug" earphones )

I love the sound quality and the tiny pocket size of it.

The battery life is decent, around 8 hours, charged via usb.

The main problems I've had with this player is that it's very fussy about MP3 files. Even the manual basically says "it's not the players fault the mp3 files are corrupt", but other mp3 players handle these files much better.

I haven't had trouble with music files, but longer 30 min+ podcasts have been prone to shutting down the player. Even after I run the files through MP3 Repair(freeware utility), or try transcoding them to WMA via "Mediacoder" (again freeware).

So, the crashes are quite annoying.

Also the touch sensitive pads on the front of the player are quite sensitive. It's near impossible to fast forward through a long podcast without it skipping to the next song at the slightest mis-touch.

If you forgive the slightly fiddly touch controls - you get used to them - this ATMT SeXen MP190 2GB player is excellent. It comes with a host of accessories including a neck strap, velvet pouch, line-in cable as it has recording capabilities and headphones. Dump the headphones and use some decent ones and you will get truly outstanding sounds from this tiny machine.