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Creative Zen Stone Plus
By: Shayne Rana   |   Sep 18,2007
  • 4.5
Great music quality and output
Good FM radio pickup
Customizable EQ
Too slow
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Now to the main event. The music player, I have to say, is quite as I expected. Great sound quality and loud enough to drown out the erratic horn blowers that plague our fair cities. Without the foam covers the earphones are a bit uncomfortable to wear and the sound quality lacks a little something. So don’t lose 'em. But the earphones even by themselves are really good if you want to use them on any other player you may have. The Stone Plus is compatible with MP3, WMA, Audible and WAV file formats.

Now for the bad part. The player is painfully slow. And maybe that’s an understatement. It takes forever to scroll through the menus and even longer if music is playing. Although Creative allows for simple copy-pasting of files into its directory and a File View option that shows you the folders available, it doesn’t allow you to see what songs are inside those folders. The moment you move the selector to a particular folder it immediately starts playing that folder.

In other words, response time on the Zen Stone Plus is just too slow. It doesn’t end there. Even if you’re copy-pasting files to and from the player it’s still just too darn slow.

The Bottom Line
The Zen Stone Plus is a great player as it is. Even the FM pickup is good. At a price of Rs. 5,000, it’s a great buy for a 2GB player, except for the fact that it’s super slow. It could be an issue with just this piece I got for review, and I really hope it is.

But the music quality is really good and with the presets and a customizable EQ option with Bass Boost, it can only get better. There’s also a range of six colors to choose from to suit your mood and fancy, so go out and get one!


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i'm using this for past one year wow.......it really takes u to a diferent world...for keen music listners get an aurvana plug in type head phones....
praveen.s @ Jun 03,2008
i have got a zen stone plus a week ago.
but my player didn't charge with a pc usb.
i have complaint creative for that, so they have replaced it with a new player. but new player also doesnt charge with usb.
any one know whats the problem?

i m not using usb hub, my motherboard is 845 GVSR intel original,
and got latest bios. i can run a bluetooth dongle, pendrive or any thin else on it. but only my player is not charging. (it charges only 20% and then shows full charge indicator)
i can transfer files to it. but full charge is not possible with pc.
dhruv @ Apr 27,2008
Superb Design. Small IS beautiful. Feature packed, good price, great sound. If you want MP3 on the move, why buy anything else.
Jon @ Oct 07,2007
i too use a creative zen plus i dont find a prblm da
i am charging in my computer
abhinand.bhaskar@gmail.com
abhi @ Sep 21,2007
its is as a same feaute of creative zen v plus??
wat is the cost in india-chennai
i too use a creative zen v plus wich has a video too..
abhinand.bhaskar@gmail.com
abhi @ Sep 21,2007
I have also, been using Zen stone plus for a week now . I havent found so many faults in my player. I have compared the sound quality of Zen stone Plus, with applie's i-pod, Zen beats it (applie's i-pod) hands down. The USB cable supplied with ZEN stone plus is quite small and hence it is almost like connecting the player itself to the USB hub. I think Vishwa has encountered a faulty piece, because the battery life of my ZEN stone plus , is quite good, I charge it once in two days and use it almost for 7-8 hours. I truely feel that anyone going for this MP3 player wont regret his decision even quite a bit.
adi @ Sep 20,2007
I have got Creative Zen Plus last week; the real down side is battery which is too bad, I also agree that device is too slow. And there are few more downsides, if have already used few of the earlier generation MP3 player they have the USB connector miniUSB but this one has miniUSB which makes user to use a cable instead of directly connecting it to PC and sound is quality is not that gr8 if you are comparing to apple iPOD or Sony beans. And on battery front after charging for 40 Mins (which is 100%charged) it has given almost 2-3 hours music play which is very poor compared any other MP3 player in this category.
Vishwa @ Sep 19,2007
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