All in all the DS-A1 does its job about as well as you could expect it to and within the sound quality limitations of a portable digital music player such as an iPod I was very impressed with its performance. As long as you connect it to your system with a decent quality interconnect and as long as that interconnect isn’t too revealing or analytical it’s capable of producing highly acceptable results.
So if you’ve ever hankered after the convenience of multiple playlists or being able to play your entire music collection on random shuffle, or you just can’t be bothered hunting through stacks of CDs every time you decide you want a change of pace, it may be worth making the compromise. And at a sniff under 70 quid, it’s not half bad value either.Read full review
Overall
8/10
By Jonathan Bray
Reviewed 14 January 2006
Updated 05 February 2011