Wanted to get some opinions and maybe recommendations for listening to music on the go, as in the best format of player in terms of sound quality, robustness, ease of use etc.

I just bought a set of of the range Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones, am currently listening to music via my phone (HTC M1 8). Sound quality is ok, but it could be better.

I used to have a Samsung tablet (got stolen) and I found the sound quality on that much better. Thing is, I didn't really use many other functions of that apart from music, as I had a phone as well, so don't really want to buy another on just for music.

As Ipod's seem to have become obsolete, I wondered what other options there are - like I say good sound quality is a must, and decent volume as well with a bit of bass. Also want something that would stand up to being buffeted around on public transport and not lost Bluetooth signal (which my phone sometimes does).

Would not be averse to phone recommendations if they have particularly good sound quality, but wondered if there are any other options around for different formats/type of player etc.

If you're using bluetooth headphones, sound quality will not change one bit from one device to another whilst using the same headphones. You're limited by the bandwidth available to A2DP and the quality of the DACs in the headphones.

Thanks, but would not completely agree.

Prior to the current headphones I had a pair of Phillips SHB915 blutooth ones, and sound quality was excellent via my ipad, never lost signal and never wavered even during shaky bus journeys.

But I don't have the ipad any more so using my phone with the new headphones, but on transport sometimes the sound wavers due to the vibration of the vehicle...not blutooth reception cutting out I should add.

Even previously when I used my existing phone with the new headphones sound was not affected that badly when travelling.

I guess a better question is if any type of phone or player has built-in anti vibration/shake software. I am sure my old ipad had something like this as I never had a problem, but don't really want to purchase a new ipad just for music.

Vibration will not effect a phone or Bluetooth headphones. It done know what is causing your problem, but that isn't it.

If your music playing device used a hard drive then I could understand it being sensitive to vibration to some extent. But I would doubt an entirely solid state device such as a phone or an iPad would be too badly affected by vibration.

Unless the sensitivity to vibration is indicating a fault internally, the proverbial "dodgy connector" perhaps. And that fault could be in the phone or the headphones.