Snareman
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I have a COWON C2. It supports MicroSD and sounds phenomenal. I have a pair of Audio Technica M50's.
I did a demo test with well known to me track (Eagles Hotel California from Hell Freezes Over concert). I compared a FLAC version on the C2 vs a RAZR HD and the difference was huge. Then I compared a 320kbps MP3 version on the C2 vs a 2nd Gen iPod Touch (which happens to have a Wolfson DAC) and the difference was very slight. Finally, I compared the MP3 to a FLAC and the difference was again slight, but noticeable.
If you have a quality pair of headphones or a nice home theater or a very nice car audio system it'd you'd hear a difference. I use a iPOD in my car because I have a mount for it and its easy to use. The COWON C2 has a resistive touch screen and I'm not going to mess with it in the car. I listen to the COWON exclusively with my headphones. If you bought an Android COWON, it might be worth it.
If the LG G2 has a high quality 24 bit DAC, you probably won't need a COWON.
Thanks for the reply. I'd pretty much be using is almost completely in my car. I have the stock, but upgraded stereo in my car FWIW. It is on the list of approved devices so it should work ok.
I'm just trying to figure out if the expense of getting it, re-ripping all of my cd's into FLAC, downloading FLAC files from places, etc is actually going to make enough of a difference compared to the 320 or apple lossless files on my 4th gen iPod Nano that I have now to make it worth it. And also not having the ease of iTunes. Are the 7th gen iPods much better?