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Review title: poor at bitrates > 256 K
Product review: I've owned this Sanza for around a year now and I think I have discovered the problem. I purchase most of my music from Amazon and I've noticed that some tracks sound good and others bad. When it's bad you can hear skips or artifacts that I don't hear when played directly on my laptop. Then I discovered that when you press the round center button to get information on the track, if the reported bit rate is greater than about 256K these are the tracks that have problems. I suspect the decoder hardware in the m250 just can not support the throughput of MP3 greater that 256K continuously, so the skips are portions that can not be decoded in real time, and distortion is heard. I'm hoping newer offerings have better, faster hardware that will decode reliably at high bit rates.
