I bought the Zen Stone thinking that it was a cheap little mp3 player, and it is, cheap at least.  This little thing packs a big punch when it comes to sound! The zen stone mp3 player has a very simple controller setup consisting of a small round button on front with volume: up, down and track: next, last options.  In the middle of the button is your play and pause.  There is no screen on the version I got but you can pay a little more to get a LCD display on it if you want.

At first I thought that the lack of digital display would be problematic, much to the contrary I found that if you put your music on the player in groups by artists names it is still very easy to find the song you are looking for.

The sound quality of this player is what really surprised me, with the ear buds that are included, to a 600 Watt Stereo, the sound quality that comes out of this little guy is superb.  You can surely spend more and get better quality output from another device but I don’t think you can match the price/quality comparison to the Zen Stone.

Of course there are mp3 players out there with much more storage, up to 80GB on some, but this little 2Gb player hold enough music for hours of listening, even at the best audio quality.  So for me I found this to be great player and the price is right.

For 30 bucks pretty much anywhere you can get your hands on this in a 2GB version, so if you are on the hunt for a cheap mp3 player, the zen stone may be for you.