....comes bundled with a pair of fairly basic earbuds, and while these aren't as bad as, say, the standard iPod 'phones....
....sound enhancement feature - Fullsound ....it certainly beefs up the low end, widens the sound stage and adds some much needed body to the mid-range.
....switch up to more expensive earbuds, and the enhancement starts to muffle detail rather than reveal it.
....Left untouched sound enhancement feature - Fullsound , the sound from the GoGear Spark is perfectly decent, handling slick, well-engineered pop and commercial rock better than dense electronica or heavy rock, but it's a solid, not spectacular performer.
....still loses out to the Sansa Clip overall because the latter seems to have more headroom when you go beyond the bundled earbuds. The SA2940 can go louder than the SA2840, and the player's grasp of dynamics is improved partly as a result, but Sandisk's little champ still performs better
....through a pair of Grado SR60s and the sound is very likeable, but the clarity and dynamics aren't quite there. Listen to, say, Notion from Kings of Leon's Only by the Night and the chiming riff has less punch and the vocals less power. With Ralph Vaughan-Williams' The Lark Ascending - a piece that relies on contrasting tones and subtle swellings of volume - the Spark doesn't quite have the subtlety to scope....
