Creative Labs' Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB - Extra Storage
by Andrew Ku on July 3, 2004 12:10 AM EST- Posted in
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Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB - Interface (cont.)
Something more specific to the Jukebox line alone are the EAX audio features:- Environment: manipulates the sound to emulate the audio quality heard in a particular environment (auditorium, bath room, cathedral, concert hall, garage, indoor arena, jazz club, living room, opera house, small room, and theater)
- Time-Scale: provides an option to decrease or increase permanently the speed of your music (0.50x, 0.75x, 1.00x, 1.25x, and 1.50x)
- Advanced EQ: equalizer settings with a customizable 4-band setting (custom, acoustic, classical, disco, jazz, new age, pop, rock, and vocal)
- Spatialization: a soundstage effect to specify the band of the audio heard (full, narrow, and wide)
- Smart Volume: provides an option to maintain the volume permanently for all music heard (train, plane, car, late night, and match volume), but it still requires you to change the volume setting to your liking
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The Settings submenu is different in the sense that there are set profiles to accommodate different preset and user set settings (standard, advanced, at home, car player, user 1, and user 2). Otherwise, the options are the same (i.e. contrast still ranges from 0 to 100 in 10 unit increments).
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Time is also provided as an option, but it is user specified instead of being sync'ed with the host computer.
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We did like the profile feature of the Jukebox Zen Xtra, since it allowed us to switch between different sets of settings fairly quickly without losing the previous ones.
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stephenc - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
I'm keen to try to find a music player for my wife with at least 10GB memory which she can -1 Play in the car and tune it to a radio FM station to play through the car
2 Play it at the gym whilst joging, etc
Hope you can help and advise
Stephen
Snacko - Sunday, July 4, 2004 - link
Beyond sound quality, which is of course subjective, and battery life, the reviewer also failed to mention anything about file format acceptance of the player. One of the main things that might draw me toward the Zen and away from the iPod is the iPod's lack of WMA compatibility.As a Windows guy who has done his research on file formats with their inherent strengths/weaknesses, I'm going with WMA for my digital music needs. The Zen can handle WMA - the iPod can't.
plewis00 - Sunday, July 4, 2004 - link
It wasn't a bad review but it wouldn't have taken much to have some size (photo) comparisons between this and it's competitors - least of all, the original Zen. A lot of reviews fail to do this and when I am getting an MP3 player this is a big concern for me - size IS an issue, I don't want to end up with something oversized, as I may as well keep my Creative DAP Jukebox instead which also won't fit in my pockets...WizzBall - Sunday, July 4, 2004 - link
Hmm, like I said on the previous 'masterpiece'... (review of creative's muvo tx) when are you guys going to get serious about sound hardware reviews ?Just about any of us could have 'tested' the hardware this way. It is useless and sounds more like a commercial to me than a true desire to keep us informed about what's going on in the market at the moment.
webchimp - Sunday, July 4, 2004 - link
A review of an audio device without a single mention of how it sounds - bizarre.Lurks - Sunday, July 4, 2004 - link
I examine mp3 for a living, I've seen seriously hundreds of the damn things. The best hard-drive based unit on the market is the iRiver iHP-140 by a very long way indeed - unless you want something very small and sexy, in which case it's an Cowon iAudio M3.This Creative wouldn't even be on in my top 20.
opposable - Saturday, July 3, 2004 - link
Sorry for the blank post.Anyway, how can you continue to do mp3 player reviews with no comparison of sound quality or battery life? It seems to me that these two would be FAR more important than something like file transfer speed. These aren't meant to be portable HD (although they can serve as them in a fix). If you want your mp3 player reviews to be taken seriously, you need to include battery life benchmarks and sound quality benchmarks.
opposable - Saturday, July 3, 2004 - link
cobalt - Saturday, July 3, 2004 - link
Review the iriver h series :\Oxonium - Saturday, July 3, 2004 - link
I mentioned this in my comments on the Dell DJ review: If you're going to compare size to the iPod, you should show a picture showing that comparison. The side-by-side with the DJ is fine, but there really should be one with the iPod since it is the icon of this class.