The market is packed with MP3 players of all kinds. We have Apple’s iPod with delicate looks and a professional appeal as the top champion, at least when it comes to being a cultural accessory. We then have portable audio players from iRiver and Creative that are trailing the iPod in hopes of taking away from its market share, and from what it appears the trick depicts to be working somewhat. Then we have a few more hard drive players from the likes of Rio and others that are chugging along to justify their existence. That’s just with hard drive players, though. Once you move to the more portable and rugged flash players, the market becomes even more complicated.

Comparatively, picking a hard drive player is actually easier than a flash player. The obvious aside, flash players have a lot more variety and since they are much less complex in architecture, almost any company with a decent R&D lab can get one ready in no time. Needless to say, this makes the choice even harder, as the price difference between some of these players is incredibly apart from one another. Of course, the cliché – you get what you pay for – is indeed very true with flash players. In more than a few brands, the audio quality is poor and only a selection of features actually work, and not even decently. Therefore, it’s suggested that you carefully pick the player instead of opting for the one with the lowest price tag.

Though Samsung is an electronics manufacturer, it doesn’t have the independent reputation of being a solid portable audio player maker like iRiver or Creative. But we shouldn’t expect anything but quality products from them. Throughout its history, Samsung has delivered quite a few quality products and keeping that in mind, Samsung shouldn’t have a troubling time keeping up with dedicated MP3 player manufacturers. After all, Samsung probably has respectable resources to devote to its recent product lineup.

One of Samsung’s latest flash players is the T7X. The T7X is periwinkle in color with a bright screen that features nearly 65,000 colors for vividly rich effects. But does it have the audio quality to match its feature set? Read on and find out…

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