[andysez]

I've had my Creative Zen Touch for a almost a fortnight now and heavily into the player in a big way. I've got the sound to just how I like it thanks to the Custom EQ (it sounded great before, but now it's EVEN BETTER!!). However, i've heard the earphones aren't up to scratch, even though to me it sounds just fine. I hear a bit of crackling here and here on songs but that may be down to either the encoding method used (VBR WMA) or to with the encoder (Windows Media Player). I'm still a newbie so please bear with me if i sound obtuse. Can anyone recommend some decent earphones so can make my Creative Zen sound even better?

[Richard_T]

Sony EX71s work well.

[iain]

i tried those, but didn't get on with them. despite the great reviews, they just didn't sound at all good with less bassey stuff. i did have them right in the ears, as with bassey / dance type stuff they sounded fantastic, but more guitary stuff they really just didn't.

in the end went with some sennheisers - px200s i think, and they've been great.

i guess it depends on whether or not you get on with the in ear ones.

Iain

[andysez]

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Originally Posted by iain

i tried those, but didn't get on with them. despite the great reviews, they just didn't sound at all good with less bassey stuff. i did have them right in the ears, as with bassey / dance type stuff they sounded fantastic, but more guitary stuff they really just didn't.

in the end went with some sennheisers - px200s i think, and they've been great.

i guess it depends on whether or not you get on with the in ear ones.

Iain

my music collections pretty much ranging from nine inch nails to simon and garfunkel, don't really have much dancey stuff apart from some tracks on Moby's Everything is Wrong and The Prodigy's "Jilted Generation". I'm a bit dubious too about outside sound being blocked out as i do a lot of walking, so i need to hear at least some stuff around me. safety and all that.