....better headphones will show up poor sound even more than the sorry bits of plastic Apple supply.
Having said that, some Sony models come with better phones than others.
If your model includes decent phones, you've saved the cost of buying replacement.
Of the two, I would choose Sony because Apple force you to use annoying iTunes and severely restrict how you use the player and your music.
Sony don't.
Iam about to buy a new mp3 player, but I can't decide which one. On the one hand there is the Sony NWZ-S738F, which has great sound quality, but has less features, on the other had there is the Ipod nano 4g with a lot of cool stuff, but with avarage sound quality.My question is that if i buy a high quality earphone, will the ipod sound good enough to buy it intead of the sony?

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