Comparison between M6 SL and Cowon D2

Moogle Stiltzkin

I'm a fan of both Meizu and Cowon.

I opted for Meizu's new M6 SL because it was in my price range and people say the audio is rated one of the best, and as importantly does all the music formats i want ( Flac, Ogg, Wav, Ape, Mp3, Wma )

Cowon is equally good and supports as wide a music format, and also has great audio !

So just want to know how would you rate the D2 against the M6 SL just curious .....

As far as i know the Trekstor Vibez supposedly is the best sounding DAP, so i want to know just where these other 2 fit in the rankings :]

DimaMP4

M6 SL is a lot cheaper than Cowon D2, and more worth than the D2 I think.

t0niX`

I'm not happy with my M6 (non-SL, sure!).
It has some ugly firmware bugs which were not fixed in any new firmware which was released yet. I wouldn't buy it again.

stranded

what "ugly bugs"?

Moogle Stiltzkin

Dima - I think so too.


Tonix - What sort of bugs ?

DaremoS

I would like to have a Archos with a screen of 7" and lot of other wonderful goodies... but it cost about US$ 750.-

I would like to have a Lamborghini too... compared with my actual Peugeot... I think that the Lambo is better... UUFFFF

Is it reasonable to do this so damn silly comparison!!!???

Probably COWON and Apple by its prices will make its owners to think that indeed are better than any other brand...

That's pure S***T!!!

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Moogle Stiltzkin

*Stares at Daremos



If you don't compare how do you know which is better mr smarty pants :] ? Some of us want to know whether it's worth dishing out a few more bucks for another player or not. There is nothing wrong speculating which would be the better choice. Is it such a crime to ask more experienced users what they think would be better value ? Not everyone here is a guru like you ...ok.... Give us ignorant people a break.

Theres no need to belittle others over nothing to fuel your ego k thx gbye

Blackstar

On the contrary, COWON *is* actually better than most brands out there. It should be no surprise that iaudio and iriver are both excellent manufacturers of mp3 players and in terms of mp3 player brands, I think they would be within the top 5.

@OP, I have not heard the Meizu M6 SL before, but if you can gather some opinions on the noisefloor levels of the SL then that would help guide your purchase greatly. Having owned several iAudio players in my time, I can safely say that iAudio hold the record as an mp3 player having the better sound quality.

iAudio's audio decoder also seems to be more mature than the decoder in the Meizu M6, as there are relatively little problems reported in the official iaudio forums. You are paying more, but its a good safeguard against buyers remorse =P

Not that Meizu makes bad mp3 players or anything, if you have a good source (properly encoded audio files), a good set of phones' then meizu's offerings provide nice enjoyable warm sounding music, which is the characteristic of the audio chip meizu use in their players (M6 series). The only flaw i ever saw was the high amount of background noise or hiss, although most cases of hissing seem to be predominant on the TP series of the M6.

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8GB iPod Touch 2G > UE10 Pro

t0niX`

Stutter Problem, song length jumping with some VBR-MP3's are only a few that aren't fixed and very annoying AND not cool if you're thinking about, that this is a multimediaplayer exactly for listening to music! It really fucked me up! The M6 is a nice designed and cool player but thinking about this issues I would NOT buy it again!

Moogle Stiltzkin

I hope those bugs get ironed out :d ... i hope.

As far as i am aware Meizu M6 is not gapless playback :x