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CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > Headphones

Best headphones for iPods

Whether new or old, your iPod will only sound as good as their earphones let it. If you want to hear your music as it should sound, you should put aside at least £30 for headphones. We've picked four essential upgrades to consider, depending on your budget Read more

15 September 2008 by Nate Lanxon

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > Digital Radios

DAB radios for hi-fi nutters

Love radio to the extent that a psychologist might be interested in your case? Forget the half-hearted squealing of kitchen radios, these are full-blown stackable hi-fi separates. If you have an existing amplifer and speakers, these are the DAB tuners you should be looking at... Read more

10 March 2006 by Chris Stevens

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

Best flash MP3 players

So you don't want an iPod nano? There are plenty of exceptional flash-based MP3 players out there and we're going to round them all up and grill them side-by-side... Read more

13 April 2007 by Nate Lanxon

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > Headphones

Best Sennheiser headphones

We've gathered together our essential Sennheiser collection, comprising of three superb pairs of earphones and one smashing pair of headphones. There are the well-priced CX 300s, the awesome-for-everyone CX 500s, our favourites, the CX 95s, and the HD 650 headphones Read more

10 October 2008 by Nate Lanxon

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > Portable Video Players

Movies on the go: portable video players

Boring journeys should be a thing of the past, thanks to the wide range of portable video players on the market. Here's four of the best Read more

10 May 2005 by Guy Cocker

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

Hard-drive based MP3 players

So, you're in the market for a hard-drive MP3 player? Well, they might claim to be hard drives, but you're unlikely to catch any of them tearing themselves out of their Dixons packaging and rampaging about, smashing and terrifying the toasters in aisle three. There's a good reason for this: hard drives are actually mechanical devices that store your music on platters that spin at high speed -- like a really, really clever record player... Read more

20 September 2005 by Chris Stevens

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

Which new iPod is the one for me?

So, you've decided you must have an iPod. Your options are thankfully straightforward -- Apple has anticipated the average consumer's aversion to obscure letters and numbers and simply calls its ranges the iPod, the iPod nano and the iPod Shuffle. But do you want a fancy new one or an older version you might find on eBay? Read more

13 October 2006 by Chris Stevens

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

New iPod shuffle: Four great alternatives

The new iPod shuffle has no buttons and requires you use the cheap bundled headphones that come with it. Not impressed? Here are four must-see alternatives to consider Read more

7 December 2009 by Nate Lanxon

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

Best lossless MP3 players

Want to hear every tiny detail from your music? You'll need a good pair of headphones and more importantly, an MP3 player that supports lossless audio formats. Check out this list of players that will help you hear even a pin drop Read more

19 June 2008 by Nate Lanxon

CNET UK > Reviews > MP3 Players and Audio > MP3 Players

Best devices for watching BBC iPlayer

The BBC lets you download programmes from its iPlayer service to a whole bunch of mobile devices. We've tested them all and picked out our four favourites Read more

11 December 2008 by Nate Lanxon

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