Iriver H140 40 GB

This device comes with a charger, usb cable, headphones, a headphone remote control, single point transfer cable, brown leather case and software CD (necessary for people with an earlier version of Windows). I got this back in August 2004 so have been using it regularly for nearly 5 years now. iRiver is an affiliate of Toshiba so these are good quality electronics with great sound quality. In this five years the device has crashed only twice, both times the simple switching off and on again resolved the problem. Battery life is great and will stay play for hours - even after 5 years of use. Although this is a digital music player this device also ...  Read the complete review

What a fantastic mp3 player. Owned mine for years and it just refuses to die. I use mine with shure e3c headphones and i can't imagine anything better. My brother's an avid iPod fanatic, but even he admits what a brilliant piece of equipment ole' faithful is. Sure the screen's pretty old school which is fine since i listen to music rather than watch it, and the capacity isn't all it used to be, but the battery life is tremendous, optical in and outputs, a little remote thing that gets left in the box, this mp3 player is still amazing, and compared with the iPod's of the time i've no idea why iPod's are so popular, this was leaps and bounds ahead. Ogg vorbis ...  Read the complete review

I have had my i-river IHP140 for 18 months now and I am utterly convinced that it is the best Hard Disk recorder that there is. Its own DAC is fabulous, the sound quality is startling but with the optical out you can use external ones if you want to, so it will grow with you as your Hi-Fi gets bigger over the years. The build quality is fantastic and you know that you have got a piece of quality that you will still use as things move on. I have been reading some 5 year old T3 mags recently and it is amazing how obbserd some things seem now but Im convinced that in 5 or 10 years the IHP 140 will still be as relevant as it is now. Its quality and stand alone functionality ...  Read the complete review