Slightly North

Last weekend I discovered there is a Fry's Electronics in the Seattle area. Of course, I walked out of there with a new toy. I bought the Rio Fuse 128MB Digital Audio Player. After a week of using it, I have to say it is pretty nice. It is very light, very small, and has a backlit screen that displays track information. It uses just one AAA battery and gets roughly 8-12 hours of playback. Now, I wasn't expecting it to sound as good as it does. I have using the earbuds that it came with, and it sounds amazing. Of course, it helps that it has a built in EQ (bass and trebble, that's 2 whole settings, but better then a CD player) and it plays almost every current audio format. The exception is m4a files. So I am forced to make an audio CD, then re-rip them to mp3 files. At least I don't have many of those.

Anyway, it is a great player, and I am very happy with it. Way better then the Rio CD player (SD90?) that I bought over 2 years ago.