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I have a Creative Zen microphoto, and am very disappointed with the audio quality achieved when I plug it into my car stereo, and into the stereo in my home. For both I am using the headphone socket as a line output and am turning up the volume.For the car I am using a Sony cassette adapter (costing approx ?5) to feed into the stereo. At home, I am using a mini jack to phono connector (costing approx ?8) to feed into the aux line input on the stereo.
It is alarming how good a CD sounds on the stereo, compared to a very high quality WMA file on the Zen plaid through the stereo line input.
Do I need much higher quality connecting cables - or is the Zen known to be weak when its output is amplified through other hifi equipment via the headphone output?

Its funny, because i'm doing the EXACT same thing with mine... i have one headphone to rca cord and one cassete adapter cord but to tell you the truth it always sounds good on anything i play it through, but i noticed that if you are using the standard headphones that come with the player, and you have changed your eq, well then you have to mess with your eq for when you plug it into a higher quality output device (such as a large stereo) because whatever your plugging it into has its own eq as well, and i noticed at one point the eq on the player and the eq on the stereo were contrasting terribly, and all you have to do is adjust... also, keep the volume on the player at about 5-20... any louder and it usually creates fuzz, so just turn up the other device you have it plugged into...
hope i could help

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