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4.0 stars
"High quality and excellent value"
Pros: Excellent sound quality
Impresive video playback
Atractive styling
Good feature listCons: Too few codecs supported
Summary: The Philips SA6185 is a very nicely finished piece of equipment. The back is black brushed aluminium (which ever so slightly concave, much like a hip flask), the front has a piano black finish ? giving it a contemporary look.
The 8GB (7.5GB in reality) of flash is adequate, allowing you to store about 50hrs of Video. The Video replay is quite impressive and actually provides quite an immersive experience.
What really sets this player apart though is the sound quality. When used with a decent pair of in-ear headphones (like the Sennheiser CX300 for £17), you can hear that the amplification stage of this device is of the finest quality. It has the presence of a class A amplifier, with impressive sound-staging and timing. This is one very musical machine.
I personally prefer the feature list of this to that of the iPod touch. The FM radio, speakers and Dictaphone - is preferable to the iPod?s touch screen (which you will need to constantly remove fingerprints from).
All in all this is a very solid offering, just be aware that you should only buy a machine that has the latest firmware installed (1.0.7). I have had many problems with machines shipped with an earlier version of the firmware.
One final thought, the equaliser in the SA6185 is very good - it would be nice if it offered the option to allow the machine to automatically set the equaliser to the appropriate setting for the genre of music being played.
Where to buy
Philips GoGear SA6185 (8GB):
$139.99
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