SanDisk Sansa Fuze Comments

It's extremely difficult to take seriously any review of a product when statements as false as, "a soft-touch plastic rear" are made, when in fact, the back portion of the Sansa Fuze is constructed entirely of steel with a rubberized coating?

I also take issue with your assessment that the Creative Zen, one of the single weakest and sonically bland DAP existent, in any way sounds superior to the Sansa Fuze, whose sound signature is virtually identical to the 'brilliant' (your words) Sansa Clip, which shares the same sound chip.

Mind you, it's all just opinion, but far too often I find your reviews anything but Trust-Worthy.

Harder, you used the phrase 'far too often'. What other recent inaccurate information have you read amongst the reviews here? I'm asking because it's a pretty damning criticism on a review site. Are you implying that they're misinformed or deliberately misleading? And perhaps the editor may want to respond to this as quickly as possible. I should add that it's a promising sign that they published your comment, but hopefully it's unedited.

Can you copy files to the Sansa Fuze just with Windows Explorer copy or with Total Commander, without any third party app or synchronization? Like those cheap no-name mp3 players.

GoldenGuy...

It's not anything personal, It just appears that Mr Bray's reviews often make rather glaringly false statements in many of his reviews.

Another example is when reviewing the Creative Zen, he stated that, "Its screen, at 2.5in, is not only larger than the nano's 2in effort, but also nearly as big as the larger, hard disk-based iPod Classic, which has a 2.8in screen", which anyone worth their electronic reviewing mettle knows that the iPod Classic has a 2.5 inch screen.

I could site other instances, but that's not the point... The point is, I expect a site called TRUSTED REVIEWS to be TRUSTworthy and accurate in their reviews.

I have noticed for some time now that some of trusted reviews are just poor and I have to say that this with its innacuracies is one of them. Another was one where you referred to dvd drives. I am considering not using your site in the future because I think frankly, with certain produts, you guys just do not know what you are talking about.
You comment on things that do not even fall into rumour category, you are quick to take the creadit when you are right and we never hear of the numerous times its just hot air.

From a guy who does not want to stop using the site, get the site real, make it reliable, give us facts, not half truths that might occur.

Video quality aside, the Fuze is actually quite well known for almost paralleling the Nano's or even the whole range of Classics' SQ - and listen - with Line-Out Dock wires on your iPods. Use Google if you don't know what Interconnects/Line-Out Docks are.

For starters, Line-Out Docks are used to bypass what audiophiles call "the horrible internal circuitries of the iPod". Although having an iMod solves that problem (available on Classic 4G, 5G and 5.5G only). And if a Fuze can parallel that kind of SQ standard, that's saying something.

I've heard through the Fuze and I've a few friends who own it, they liked the Fuze's sound and SQ over the iPods'. Though the memory size is, of course, ultimately the Sansa line of products' downfall.

Though of course, as subjective a matter as music is, I'll leave it to you peeps to compare (or re-compare) the Fuze and the iPods. Though IMO to say that the Zen overpowers the Fuze is really *serious* misinformation. The Zen has completely no ground compared to those two products - not to mention lack of compatibility for plenty of music file formats, most notably lossless.

If you have a version 1 model of the Fuze, you can now install Rockbox on it. Details here:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=22137

This player/firmware combination is simply incredible.