[adam917]

Originally Posted by dewdude

I'm new here. I decided to start looking for these groups since iPod advertising is getting heavy and i'm very anti-ipod.

I bought my imp-350 SlimX a little over two years ago on an impulse. I was looking at buying another CD player as my cheap MP3CD player had gotten stolen about a year before. I decided i was going to buy something decent, i saw the SlimX and despite the price tag, i bought it. I'm glad i did. This thing has been THE BEST player i've ever own, mp3CD or vanilla RedBook CD.

I'm picky about the quality, this, for a portable unit, amazes me. I'm sure the newer models sound better, but, this sounds damn good for a portable.

It's also been a tough little player. it gets thrown around, dropped, abused, shoved in a pocket while walking around the city, and flung from my truck when the remote catches on my shirt...the remote itself has gotten flung around, shut in car doors...it still works, to a point...it has a bad connection and it'll go sometimes 5 minutes and not work. I need a new batterypack too, the tab on mine broke.

I mean, i just love this thing, so what if i've gotta carry a bunch of CD's around? Better sound than an ipod and it just looks cool. It's also the only CD unit i've had that doesn't skip, then again, 400 some seconds of mp3 buffer is pretty impressive.

Few overall complaints...no OGG support yet...snake got kinda boring after i beat it (did anyone see the double swastikas on one of the last levels?), plus, if i have a disc of all WMA it'll play it once then give me no disc errors after that.

I'm just wondering if my unit itself will start failing like people on here have reported.

-jay

How many levels is Snake? I'd like to beat it. Though it's better using this iMP-550 with the '900's remote. Too bad my '900 is a bad one, I have everything that came with it packed up ready to ship to iRiver as soon as they give me an RMA # & address to ship to for defective products. I love the extra wattage on the iMP-900, but hate the skipping (not the standard muting that happens on most CD players; this goes to two files ahead!) when the memory buffer runs out.