My uncle wants an mp3 player, I think he'd prefer one with built in radio and voice recorder. I've heard the 20/40GB iPods from my friends and they themselves as well as me agree the sound quality from the iPod isn't very good (I had a watch MP3 player that sounded miles better, and most other mp3 players sound much better).

I asked if sound quality was important and he said yes so I assume unless the new iPods fix the low quality sound then they're out of the question (I know it's not horrible quality, but it's not what I'd expect from an mp3 player costing $500 at the time, I certainly would have returned it since I'm used to the much higher sound quality from my pocket pc).

I read online that the sound from the Creative Zen is much better, are there other ~5GB mp3 players with better sound than the iPod? Do the new iPod minis have better sound quality than the original iPods? What would you recommend for him?

Thanks