14 Best Mp3 Player With Bluetooth And Wifi (2022 Updated)

Right off the bat, the clip function many people have been ranting about isn’t so bad. There is a weak spring in there but its performance fluctuates depending what fabric it’s clinging onto and at what angle.

Mostly does fine with softer material like my (battle-worn) work shorts and gym shorts as well but with sturdier/stiff fabrics not so much. In that case it’ll be on the floor before you know it. If that happens, fret not, as the player is seemingly difficult to damage.

This one is resistant to external liquids and has Bluetooth for a great price. My mother bought a different model that has less features for $20 more and it looks very fragile with its exposed ports and extra brittle plastic.

Neutral characteristic: The battery can last a few days or less than a day, depending on whether you’re wired in or streaming via Bluetooth. This leads me to the. Negatives. Going wireless is this device’s weakness.

It’ll cut out periodically and up to 4 times in under 20 seconds which is irritating as all hell. This is not a good standard for any electronic made in the past decade. This was tested with 4 devices (buds, headset, and 2 speakers) so it’s not just a trial run of one set of Ink’d.

The more annoying negative trait? The boot time. This thing will pause and shut down in a second but takes eternity to turn on and use. It’s the same thing you might have with your flat screen TV ~ turn it on and the brand logo takes its time to show up, linger, and go away.

After that there’s a chance this MP3 player will boot you all the way back to the main menu (music folder, list, song) and yadda-yadda until you get to what you desire. There’s no rollover with this player either that I know of but it’s perhaps my fault for sticking everything in file folders (e.

g: Rock, Techno, Oldies). My other player will automatically go play the first song in the next folder when the last one ended so there’s no need to mess with it. This SanDisk needs to be spoon-fed directions.

This also means that if you want to go to another song somewhere else then you’re booted all the way back to the carousel of options to tediously choose what you want. This is NOT good programming. When this device inevitably croaks then I will be looking into a different brand.

I’ve had it about two weeks. Needed a replacement for my first Bluetooth MP3 player that had too many irritations. I have two wired Sansa players that I bought years ago and that worked very well, so I wanted to try this one, they just didn’t have Bluetooth.

It paired easily and quickly with the Bose QC bud system, which is the only device I’ve tried it with. It has to be set to “international” to get immersive levels of volume through the Bose, and the highest volume is usually plenty and too high on many recordings.

The user interface inputs use buttons only, which I prefer because the touch screen MP3 device it replaced is virtually unusable in bright sun, plus there aren’t any inadvertent song change or volume change inputs with these physical buttons.

This SanDisk display is bright enough to be usable in the sun – similar to the other Sansas I have. The sound quality is very good – I use FLAC files and high-sample-rate MP3 files. I wished it had the ability to plug in the mini SD cards I already have, and that the connector was USB C instead of mini USB, but these are things I can work around – if it had those I’d probably rate it a 5.

Would recommend the 32GB size storage. Glad I found this device and would buy it again.

I bought this in 2015 at a Best Buy. Terrific battery life. There are months where I leave it in storage where it barely looses any power at all! With the MicroSD card slot my 8 GB model can handle an extra 64 GBs of music.

While I’ve often thought about getting a memory card for it the 8 GBs of internal storage has been more than enough to store 600 of my jazz. MP3s (320 Kbps). The screen is a bit scuffed up after all these years but I can still read the display without an issue.

The volume control does limit your levels to “25” which is fine unless you’re in a noisy environment. Like public transit, busy street, etc. While the clip works fairly well I do sometimes have problems getting the player to stay where I want it to.

I mostly just tuck it away in an otherwise empty pocket. I’ve noticed that controls can be pressed accidentally if objects are in the pocket as well. But I think there is a lockout feature preventing that from happening.

The FM radio is a nice touch too. This thing supports way more audio formats that I will never use. When I bought this there were other capacities made as well. The higher the internal storage translated to a lower capacity MicroSD memory card capacity.

Kind of a bummer because I was hoping to get their 64 GB version with the option to add a 64 GB memory card to it. But that top end model didn’t have the external card slot. One thing worth noting though is if you’re eyesight isn’t the best you may have trouble reading the scrolling text for song titles, artists, albums that cycles through automatically for each track being played.

Sport mode has stopwatch, timer, saved logs, and delete logs options. In the Music setting you get: Shuffle, Artists, Albums, Songs, Playlists to help sort out your tunes. For playlists there are 3 “Go Lists” to choose from.

Also has repeat option. You can add songs to each of the “Go Lists” from the player itself. I’ve never used it so I have no idea what limits there might be.

Had an old Sansa clip 4GB which unfortunately got left at my desk at work when COVID hit. Thought I’d be back in to retrieve it but didn’t happen. Found a cheap thing on eBay and thought it would suffice but not enough options.

Tried to find another Sansa clip but seems not available now and this model kept popping up. Not positive but think it replaced it. I like the 32GB size, plenty of room for my music. It also has the shuffle option which I prefer and the cheap other one didn’t have.

Battery life has been great and it’s easy to just copy and paste the mp3 files from my PC to it. I’ve always preferred using this type of thing for listening while out walking compared to using my phone.

It just works for me.

My wife and I love these MP3 players. We’ve each owned 2 over the years, with varied memory capacities. This unit, with 32gb, will never be completely full, but it won’t be for lack of trying. I really like the Bluetooth capability in this generation of player.

The only thing that could be improved would be to add an internal antenna for the radio function. It currently uses the wire from the ear plugs as the antenna, so listening to radio with Bluetooth ear bugs isn’t an option.

Long lived and durable. Love this player! Highly recommended.

I feel like a bunch of cliches, but the sound is open and uncolored. It drives my Sennheiser HD580 headphones (320 ohm impedance) without a problem. Hi res sounds even better. I was listiening to an old Budpest String Quartet CD; when the violinist turned a page of his music, I inadvertently turned toward the sound to see what was happening.

Very realistic.

Small, elegant, beautiful and well crafted!

TranslateShow in original languageAK300に買い替えて良かった!と思う理由を以下に記載していく。①DPX1との差DPX1を半年ほど使用しており、操作性やアップデートで使いやすくなったアプリなどに満足していた。しかし、耳もこなれてくるもので(劣化?)音場の狭さに落胆してしまった。そんな時にAK100Ⅱを友人が購入し、SE846で聞かせてもらった時の驚きが忘れられず、AKシリーズの購入を検討し、320と300で迷った果てに300を選択しました。私が前述のDAPを選択するとしたら以下の要素だと思います。迷っている方がいたら、安くなっている今ですよ。・DPX1:価格、操作性・AK300:音場、所有感、汎用性②聞いている環境主に通勤電車と就寝前に使用。以下の構成で聞くことが多い。・AK300 + Maverick + Augline+pt(2.

5mm自作リケーブル)←通勤時のおすすめ構成・AK300 + Maverick + SuperNova(2. 5mm)・AK300 + Maverick + Augline+α(2. 5mm自作リケーブル)・AK300 + Maverick + 純銀線(3. 5mm)・AK300 + Maverick + Augline+pt(2. 5mm自作リケーブル)+ HPV1 ←カフェでのおすすめ構成・AK300 + Maverick + Augline+pt(2.

5mm自作リケーブル)+ piccolo ←eイヤの店員さんに教えていただいたAアンプ・AK300 + OpticalCable + Pioneer A50-DA(据え置きDAC0)←自宅で気軽に聞く構成・AK300 + 自作CIEM・AK300 + ATH-ESW950 ←ヘッドホンはこれで良し③ファームウェアアップデート前後での音の違い確かに音場が狭くなったと感じた。しかし、アプデ後の音も悪いとは感じなかった。今後のアプデにより、音が変わることもあるかもしれないが、AK300を愛用し続ける。.

Having exclusively used iPods for years, it took me some time to get used to this DAP. Once I became familiar with its strengths (and quirks), I came to appreciate its qualities, to the extent that I no longer miss the iPod features that the Pioneer does not even attempt to replicate.

This DAP is a music-playing machine, without the ability to construct complex playlists via iTunes and so on. As a player, it is fundamentally better than any iPod, and not only because the memory is expandable, but–most importantly–because it sounds better.

If your standard for listening to digital music is via an iPod or a phone, you should notice the difference, even for MP3s, whether you listen through headphones or through speakers. The bass in particular sounds rich and full, and the unit allows the user to adjust equalization from the touchscreen.

Transferring music to the DAP is inelegant (drag and drop, since iTunes doesn’t recognize the thing and the Onkyo app is clunky and doesn’t work for Mac users anyway) but simple. Because the unit has two slots for micro SD cards, you can replace your MP3 or AAC files with Apple Lossless or other high resolution formats without worrying about running out of space on the unit’s hard drive.

I got this thing to replace an iPod Classic that died after 5-6 years of heavy use, and it feels like I unintentionally upgraded.

Great audio player with a lot of storage. It is not compatible with Android Auto, so if I connect via Bluetooth to the car, the car will only play the track (playlist) or album on the player. There is no ability to access the music folders in my car.

Having said that, you lose some music quality transferring by Bluetooth. Having the best sound quality in the car, depending on your speakers, should not matter. I have connected the device to the car with an aux cable, but then the digital audio player becomes the only means of changing tracks, which is not safe while driving.

I got around the problem buy making a playlist and just using the playlist via Bluetooth in the car. I happen to have good stereo speakers in my car, but (44k +) via Bluetooth is ok in the car. Most people like myself buy this type of device because of the improved sound quality.

I have not used up the memory cards or internal memory yet. I now use the player instead of Vinyl for my premium stereo and speakers. Older good headphones will work fine with this player without an amplifier.

The newer headphones are not as good in my opinion anyway. This is a very good player. Battery life is not good. I recommend keeping the device plugged in while playing, especially in the car. “#sweepstakes”.

A handy little player, fairly easy to set up despite the less-than-intuitive keyboard (if you need to input an upper case letter, you have to type it in lower case first then hit another key to change it).

I can’t comment on its performance with downloaded music, as I didn’t get that far. My main reason for purchasing was the promise of in-built Tidal and Deezer support, to avoid having to physically copy my 3,000+ CDs for portable listening.

However, it turns out that this player has specially-built versions of those apps, and Pioneer hasn’t licensed them for offline use. This means you can only use Tidal or Deezer where you have a wifi signal – useless if you want to use the player to play your playlists or albums in your car, on a plane, on holiday – or, frankly, in most places away from home.

I couldn’t find reference to this in any of the marketing materials, and had to go searching through forums to find the truth. Unfortunately, in an age where more and more of us are turning to hi-res streaming services as a no-hassle way of accessing our music, this player is really not far from being obsolete.

Perhaps that explains why the price is dropping so much.

I’ve upgraded from A&K SE200 to SP2000 within about 10 days of the initial purchase. Why? Because SP2000 simply has no equal. The DAP is so refined, it can only be measured by how perfect a desire is.

The SP2000 I purchase is the copper version, which I had a pleasure of testing through a friend of mine before I splurged on it. The player is simply phenomenal – with its dual AK4499EQ DAC configuration, the fit and finish, the internal storage, the sound processing most importantly – it is breath-taking.

Just make sure to pair it with equally high end IEMs / headphones, to show how strong this unit can shine. The sound stage, the delivery, the sound characteristic, the deep holographic sound with impeccable execution and delivery of all details makes this player push the sound files to another level.

With this unit, you will know a bad record from a good one. You will notice details you haven’t before and you will be taken on another adventure where you are exposed to all the intricate details of the music you’re playing through it.

The SP2000 takes no prisoners, it doesn’t change the sound to make it better. It simply extracts the very best out of each track, just the way the musician intended the recording to be heard. There are no artificial aspects or tuning of tracks.

There is no unnatural colouring to make it sound better. It it as raw and good as it gets. Is this the perfect DAP? Yes. It is the end-game. For me at least. Pair it with the JH Audio Roxanne AION IEMs and you will never want to hear your music differently.

Painful process so far. Obviously this thing has great specs. It sounds great. Industrial design is beautiful. Beyond that, frustration. Especially with the ergonomics and interface design. Consider that this thing will hold hundreds of thousands of songs, so efficient and intuitive navigation is critical.

On this count, the SP2000 misses the mark. The touch screen is far less sensitive than a smart phone, yet you are forced to use the touchscreen for everything. You often find yourself jabbing at very small icons.

I have many hundreds of artists on mine, and the list always starts at “A” (no memory of where you where). You have to swipe through a long, long list with no way to jump through the alphabet, and as you are swiping the screen often registers an accidental tap.

Again, nowhere near as functional of a screen as a smartphone. The massive rotary knob on the side is great, but has only one function (volume) and is very sensitive. No way to lock the screen. Good luck carrying this in a pocket.

Play a song and want to navigate to the album or artist? Sorry. Not an option. You have to “back” through screens and navigate to artist or album list,…which doesn’t anchor on what’s playing but rather starts at “A”.

Good luck scrolling without an accidental tap! Am I being unfair? This thing costs $3,500!!! Expectations should be high. While the DAC is great and it is loaded with tech for tweakheads who really need to tune filters and parametric EQs on their portable player, it fails on some very basic interface and and ergonomic fronts.

I have had both the Kann and the Cube before so I am familiar with this brand. This SP2000 takes the player to a whole new level. For so long I just focused on the headphone piece when upgrading. Listening to this showed what a diffence a fantastic player can have.

The amp in the unit is more than enough to drive my Focal Clears and my Empire Ears IEM’s. In fact, it allows my Clears to function on all cylinders, The spacing of the sound, the crystal clear notes make me want to hear all my music again “for the very 1st time!” Now that’s a compliment.

The build and the massive storage are the icing on the cake. Even with the price I highly recommend.

These products are very old and the product itself is really a good product BUT the batteries for them are not available, completely unavailable. I found one resource that had a battery, received it, and due to the battery being also old it did not maintain a charge and the AC adapter will not work without a battery that can maintain a charge.

So the equipment is non-functional and these should no longer be sold.

I did own (and still do) an Archos 504 media player which is a very good balance between watchability and portability. I am now mostly confined to bed through disability, and thought that the larger screen of the 705 and web browsing capability would be a bonus for me.

The most important thing for me though was that the screen size was on a par, or larger than most eReaders. I knew that the Archos PDF reader on the 504 was dreadfully slow, but I assumed that the PDF reader must have improved by now.

I was mistaken it was still the same. All is not lost however, I got hold of a program (Smart PDF Converter Pro) which will convert PDF books to jpg images, which the Archos will read instantly. The thing to do when you have the jpg images of your book is to select them all in the windows explorer tool bar (file, edit,view etc.

) under ‘edit’ ‘select all’ then under ‘file’ select ‘rotate counter-clockwise’. This will now make them quite viewable on the 705 (touch top left of screen as you are reading the page and there are two arrows for forward and back).

You will have to remember which page you were on though. I thought that the Archos 504 was the upper limit for ‘pocket portable’ so if that is what you want then the 705 is not for you. If you have a bag or case to put the 705 in then you have a good media player, fairly good web browser (needs a ‘plugin’ however, which is very naughty as it is sold as ‘Wi-Fi’) Build quality – its an Archos, therefore normally excellent.

Picture quality – It is the same as the smaller 504/604 etc. so initially it takes a bit of getting used to (the same resolution on the smaller screen is sublime). Battery life – I am getting about 4 hours on video, I haven’t really used it for audio (for a complete charge) but the maker states 20 hours) Hope this helps.

As a Player, I went for the size of of the display. It does a nice job as a video player. I also play audio books and music. If I go in under music, I had to create play lists to play albums and audio books.

If I went under files then I could play the files without the play lists. Under the negatives, The battery life with the ARCHOS 705 was not what was claimed by the manufacturer which is pretty standard in electronics.

Now the play list creator is clumsey. In order to create the play lists of all 900 files would have taken several weeks. It took me a week working at least 6 hours a day to create 400 at shich point I stopped and found the trick of playing thru the file manager.

I wish I could have created them from the computer but was unable to do so. I as almost any computer user feels that there is never too much hard drive capacity. At this point I only have 30GB left on the 160gb hard drive.

It will be filled by the end of 2011. For long trips, I would recommend the purchasing of 2 or more extended batteries of 10,200 mills. My estimation that this with the 2 standard batteries would allow 20 hours of video playback and 60 hours of audio.

Should be enough to get to Australia or the far east. With regard to using the Archos 705 to access the internet, Opera is clumsy and not worth the effort. I dont feel that it was worth the effort to access the internet.

Give me a windows based tablet and a different brower for that. Still it was worth the cost of this of this player.

Great product, only a few minor niggles tho. Very easy to set up, I was enjoying its music in less than an hour after walking in through the door (included signing in to Heos App, doing an update. & making my wife a cup of tea by way of distraction for getting the Denon into my ‘studio!’).

A little background reading to help you assess my review; I’m a pro ‘classical music’ musician & the music I listen to & used to test this network player is solo instrumental or chamber music, up to orchestral music.

Immediately after listening I was Impressed, so much so that having been using the standard Amazon Music service I decided to upgrade to the HD version which seemingly sounded even better (I’ve not done any comparison between standard & HD but my impression is that the HD or above music does sound that little bit zippier!).

I also upgraded the connecting RCA connection wires from those sold in the box, next will be to upgrade to an Amp with a digital optical connection which I would expect should give the purest digital sound.

I have an ancient although extremely trusty Denon CD player & Amp which I used for comparison, & I would say generally gave me this impression: CDs sounded slightly warmer & mellower tonally, a little less definition to the sound & seemed to have a very fractionally wider sound picture (as if the speakers were a tad further apart) but this last could be a simple an aural illusion due to the difference in sound? I did a test with my wife listening & she came up with exactly the same impressions! Summing up the network player gave an impression as if I had very marginally tweaked the treble up & the bass down a notch, but I have to say some of the bass sounds (for example bass drum sounds) came across most impressively! Now my niggles are these: The Heos App seems a trifle slow in operation (I so much prefer the Sonos App in both use & layout), why can’t it be used to access Apple Music too so everything is together?! I haven’t found a way to get the player to start up with where you left off & not stuck with opening to Internet Radio.

& it doesn’t open up so smartly as there’s always a long (by today’s impatient time frames) start up (ok, it’s only about 20 secs. !!) & I am running it on wifi not Ethernet cable so that may help with start up connection times (my wifi is fast everywhere else tho)? Well I will say after owning this player for two weeks now I still love it, the sounds are virtually indistinguishable from CDs & it won’t belong before I can save some space in my listening room by ditching a few CDs that are now available via streaming, all in all this is a winner!.

This Denon was purchased just over two weeks ago. I had a collection of digital music on computer that wasn’t really being utilised. I had previously got used to listening to MP3s on my phone. Then I returned to listening to CDs on my Audiolab 8000CD / Audiolab 8000S / B&W P4 setup – well, absence does make the heart grow fonder! I was knocked out by how good those CDs sounded, but I wanted more for my digital music collection.

So, I looked around at digital music sources. I considered the Audiolab 6000N, but plumped for this Denon DNP800 (without listening) based on features & the interface at the right price – I wanted a device with a display, so that I could “drive” it without using the app if required.

Since buying I have listened to all sorts of digital music from Spotify, internet radio, through to MP3s, right up to 16 & 24 bit FLACs. Obviously, there’s a difference in all of those, but they are all treated with “respect” by the Denon.

It compares so well to the Audiolab CD when using FLACs. It’s great to be able to stream (via Plex setup as DLNA server from my Windows laptop), or to choose whatever method works for you to get your digital music kicks! Entirely satisfactory experience.

Love the Denon. Onwards and upwards!!.

This network audio player is fantastic. I am running it through a Technics amplifier, graphic equaliser and a pair of 90s Wharfedale bookshelf speakers and the sound quality is incredible. All instruments in the track are clearly defined and the sound punchy but not in a tiring way.

Internet radio quality does vary depending on the source, but the Denon unit certainly makes the best of the lesser quality streams. Spotify connect and amazon music are seamless. My only negative comment for the unit is that bluetooth connectivity is of very low sound quality due to a lack of the modern aptX codec.

However, this is by no means a deal breaker as the unit performs faultlessly in every other respect. The unit is extremely easy to use and set up. Very pleased with my purchase!.

It seems a bit absurd to write a review of an item that’s no longer being made, but Moon still has some and they asked nicely. I bought this to listen to music when I don’t want to start the computer.

It works well for that, playing music through my power-hungry LCD-4 headphones with gracefulness and authority. Its sound quality is every bit as good as my Benchmark DAC-1 headphone amplifier. How important is beauty in an audio product? Most of the time I go for sound first, in a professional and industrial way; I’m not listening to music to impress others.

The DMP is beautiful, and I like that. It fills a particular niche. So would other devices. I made my choice and have no regrets.

As good as advertised. Pricey but definitely worthwhile if you can afford it!

TranslateShow in original languageシグネチャーシリーズ7機種の全ての組み合わせを聴き比べた結果、断トツで高音質であったのがこの DMP-Z1 と MDR-Z1R の組み合わせでした。 上手く表現できませんが、これまで家庭内で楽しむ製品の中で得られたことがないほどの質の高さを感じました。 無音時の静粛性、音の立ち上がりの鋭さやパワー感、メリハリ、全体の音のバランス、音像の定位感、きめの細かさ、どれをとっても文句が無く、更にこれらのまとまりの良さが絶妙だと感じられます。 初めて理想に近い音を感じ取らせて頂きました。 私みたいな素人が聴いてもはっきりとわかる質の高さ。まさに異次元の世界です。 予算的に許されるのであれば、是非皆さんに味わって頂きたいと思いました。 数多くの高い評価を読んで買ってみたものの、がっかりした経験ばかりの私ですが、これは購入して良かったと感じられる久々の商品です。.

I purchased the Kann on the basis I had a 14 day return policy, an offer I will not be taking. The Kann is an astounding piece of portable audio technology and I paired it with a set of Shure SRH1540 cans to complete the package.

Audio has been my profession thirty years, having used the best equipment, sitting behind the business end of an SSL-6000G mixing console. It’s difficult to explain the complex sound of the Kann, it’s is so clear and defined, I can hear edits on tracks or drop-in’s and background sounds normally lost in mud and noise floor of consumer audio equipment.

The Kann has a natural but highly defined sound with all the audio spectrum clear and not squished as on phone audio players. To describe it, as if being short sighted for many years and then putting on corrected lenses, the whole world becomes clear in minute detail.

I would not play MP3 files on the Kann or use Spotify with its substandard lossy codec, it is a waste of time and money. I am using WAV files converted from Pro-Tools HD 12, but you can equally use 24bit/ 16bit 44.

1 files to get the best experience. Storage is not an issue; I added 2 SD ultra-cards with 128G each plus the internal 56G. Yes, it’s a tad bulky compaired to your iPhone but, it has a lot of connections and features that you just miss in cheaper inferior players.

And, at this price point you will want connect it to your hifi rig which, I’m sure will outperform my pro-CD player. Yes, it runs warm but, so does most pro audio equipment, the Neve VRP mixing desk, would keep your lunch warm for hours!! I am of the early conclusion that the Kann is better than most of my studio equipment in terms of DAC output, I am going to rig it to my Yamaha HS50’s and test.

Finally, please do not judge Kann on size and price, it is as good if not better than a lot of pro-audio costing five times the cost. Buy the leather case and screen protectors available online to complete and protect your investment.

The only con was the lack of GUI and readable instruction manual. You need to copy and paste files from your storage drive or folders and there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to edit them on the Kann (its new so still on the learning curve).

I bought this DAC/Amp file player two weeks ago and its an incredible piece of “kit” Whilst very costly the build quality is amazing and the sound from downloaded high quality FLAC files is stunning, both to Headphones/ear pieces and to a system via an Amplifier.

The Kann Cube has built in amp to power any headphone or Amplifier via 3. 5mm or 2. 5mm line output jack, and has three levels of output to match anything. Also a balanced 5 pin Mini XLR output socket.

The size and weight make it less than ideal for portable use (not for jogging or exercising!) more desktop or an addition to your main stereo system. It has enormous inbuilt memory, probably enough to store 250 albums, and expandable with MicroSD card to 1TB! One drawback, it is not able to display album notes, lyrics or libretto etc, as its not possible to install Adobe Acrobat reader.

You can install streaming services via the APK Google portal by downloading to your PC and transfer to the Cube via USB lead. The Wi-fi and Bluetooth work fine. I am very impressed and very pleased. The settings have a vast range of options, just wish they provided a PRINTED full manual not just the simple Quick Start! Battery lasts about 9 hours from full charge.

The full manual can be downloaded from the Astell and Kern web site.

I have spent a year deliberating over a Hi Res player on which to put my CD collection for easy access. I wanted to be able to listen on headphones and be able to plug it into a system. The Kann really seemed to fit the bill, due to reviews AND having a dedicated line out.

The barrier was finding a retailer where I could listen to it. Richer Sounds were really accommodating and from the first track both myself and the salesperson were utterly stunned by the quality of the sound from the Kann.

Enormous soundstage, deep deep bass but not unbalanced. Everyone who has listened to it has been blown away by the sheer quality and engagement of music played by the Kann. Loading sounds is a doddle (I use dB Poweramp) and with a potential 976 Gb of storage, I’m looking forward to years of enjoyment.

First off, I’ve been an audiophile for over 20+ years. I’ve had everything from the old yellow Sony Walkman cassette player with the snap lid to keep it closed, and most recently a Sony NW-A35 Walkman and Shanling Audio M0.

I mainly listen to my OWN 24-Bit Hi-Res FLACs of live jamband and electronic styles of music, that I record myself with TOTL Recording gear (Schoeps mics and Sound Devices recorders). Ok, now onto the M5s itself.

This is seriously and EASILY the best musical and audible experience that I’ve EVER had in my life. My Campfire Audio Andromeda and Dorado IEM’s just frickin SING with the resolution and overall balanced sound of the M5s.

Both pairs of IEM’s have never sounded better with my live recordings! I still need to try out my Westone Second Generation UM Pro 30’s with the M5s, but I have NO DOUBT that they’ll sound better than ever before too ️ The FGPA Structure with the dual AKM 4493EQ Velvet Sound DAC chips is absolutely jaw dropping and Completely immerses me in a HUGE 3D wall of sound that I’ve NEVER experienced before! I knew that the M5s would obviously sound better than my Sony NW-A35 Walkman and Shanling M0 Music Players/DAP’s, but I honestly wasn’t expecting it to sound THIS HAUNTINGLY GOOD There’s also ZERO hiss and noise for my super sensitive CA Andromedas, even when I’m not listening to any music in-between songs, and a completely black background with absolutely awesome soundstage and imaging.

The soundstage is huge and encompasses you into the overall sound, and the imaging is great as well, with amazing placement of ALL of the different instruments, no matter if what you’re listening to has 3 musicians or 10 musicians in each band! As far as the features and UI/OS go, the UI is very smooth and responsive, and I like the version 2.

0 MTouch OS much better than even the M0! I wish I could stream my 33,000 songs from my Google Play account, but I can live without it since SD cards are getting so cheap now.

I love this DAP and the more hours I spend with it. the better it gets. Let me start off by saying that I sold a $1200 Astel & Kern to get this $430 Music Player and I love this one so much more. The AK was awesome from an SQ perspective – perhaps a little thin in the Bass Response but very wide, detailed and clean sound stage where you could literally hear, feel, and see the sound stage with cymbals literally floating to the part of the stage where they belonged.

It was expensive and it it sounded expensive. BUT I never liked the UI or the sluggishness of the of the interface when trying to give it commands through its puny touch screen or laggy buttons. As a result I never really used all that much unless I was taking a long flight or a long drive.

So when I came across the M5s and read a few reviews i decided to sell the AK and pick one up. Better Screen, Longer Battery Life and huge potential storage capacity together with exceptional sound. was enough for me to roll the dice on it.

Well, when I first got it I was pleased but I felt compared to what I had, I made a small compromise in SQ for usability and battery life. I found some shortcomings in the EQ, found the treble perhaps a little harsh and the bass not so lush.

But still way better than anything I had heard from Fiio or others. I felt that my AK sounded better but my M5s sounded really good and would get more use because of the ui, screen, battery and sq. For the first few weeks, when i wasn’t using it, I would plug it in and let the music play at low voume into the IEMs to let the unity “burn in” and it did make a difference.

I could hear the tome improving, the staging get cleaner and with my SE535s I found the perfect EQ setting for me and was perfectly happy. Fast forward 5 Months and the more I use it the better sounding it gets.

I love this DAP and Andrew at Musikteck is an awesome Seller.

A compact, well made DAP which has a powerful headphone output and a balanced output for those who prefer it. The UI is good, these days most DAPs are Android type devices, this has a scroll wheel control and a much simpler UI with none of the functionality of Android devices but it is intuitive and easy to use.

This is just an audio player, but sound quality is superb, it’s got a real quality feel and it can drive headphones to a high volume even in single ended output. I have used it with Beyerdynamic T5P gen 2, Oppo PM-2 and Audio Technica MSR-7NC headphones, all are low impedance easy to drive headphones but nevertheless this can drive all of them very loud.

I tried the balanced output with my T5Ps and although you do benefit from more power I found the single ended output more than loud enough with no difference in sound quality. Sound is pretty much transparent which is a compliment in my book.

Is it worth carrying a separate DAP? Sound quality is a bit better than most smartphones and if you use wired headphones then fewer and fewer smartphones seem to have a headphone jack, so yes there is still a use for DAPs.

You can spend an awful lot more than this one costs, but given how solidly built it feels, the excellent sound quality, balanced output and the fact it can drive headphones to suitably loud volume I am not sure why anybody would really need to spend more.

A fabulous product, very highly recommended.

Having had, and indeed still have in constant use a Zen 4 gig earlier edition unit, I felt as I was needing a MP3 player with a bit more capacity due to now travelling more often. To while away the boring hours spent in the air I take audio books and a full range of music along with me.

So my first idea was to seek out a newer version and after a bit of research opted for the Zen X-fi 16 gig unit. Does it supply my need? Hell yes and more so as you can pop in an additional card which increases the capacity even more should you need that.

As with previous Zen devices the ease of operation is just so simple. Drag & drop files from your PC and off you go. Do I use the radio, video player and other facilities? No frankly I don’t but I’m sure for those that want to communicate with others via apps etc then they would be able to do so easily.

Not for me I just wanted a simple reliable MP3 player.

After much research, I bought this mp3 player (my very first one) here on ebay in 2009, absolutely LOVED it; it was perfect for me. I easily loaded all my favorite songs, albums, playlists on it (drag’n’drop thru Windows Explorer) & never even used the SD card slot (a nice li’l bonus) ‘cuz hey, it had 32-whopping-gb!! The screen was just too ridiculously small to even entertain watching a video, but I wanted it for listening to music sp.

no big loss there What I loved about it. really terrific sound. I mean, I could buy a set of earbuds from the Dollar Store & it sounded like I’d spent a bunch of money on some from BOSE! I could set it on Shuffle’n’Repeat & NEVER hear the same song twice.

and a really good battery life. well, until the battery died a couple years later WITH all my favorite songs, albums, & playlists on it! I’ve been trying to find another comparable one ever since. According to Creative’s website, the battery cannot be replaced (but I found a replacement battery — again on ebay — and step-by-step instructions on youtube; I’ve taken it apart, but stop short of separating it into two pieces (top & bottom) because the battery appears to be connected with some type of wire, and I’m just too chicken to follow thru past that point.

Meanwhile, it’s in a sandwich bag, along with the screws which I’ve stored in a Tic-Tac case, tucked away in my sock drawer until the day comes when I decide to go for it, buy the battery & watch the youtube video!.

I have never had a mp3 player, yet always wanted to get one. Before, I bought this Zen XiFi (32GB), I researched heaps on the web to find out the best on the market for a reasonable price. I should say that the price was a bit uncomfortable to bear, but when you think of its features such as, screen resolution, the mini size, wifi capability, memory expandability, FM radio, superior sound quality and etc, I personally found it hard to resist.

My Hand phone already has wifi, therefore, I will not be using the device to browse the net as my phone wifi is much more comfortable to use. The reason I went for the 32GB device without going for the wifiless 8GB or with wifi 16GB was the inbuilt memory capacity as it is heaps for me to use without buying additional memory cards, but there is still potential for me to expand it if I wish to do so later on due to the available memory slot in the device.

The provided software was useless. You can do the same stuff that it is supposed to do with “Windows My Music” files on your computer, therefore my advice is not to install the provided software on your computer.

What Zen should have provided was a software which can change music files from one format to another, as this would be a major issue if you want to convert your favourite songs from CD to MP3 or WMA or etc.

Due to this very reason I had to spend some more money and buy a software which can do what I wanted. This is an absolutely amazing software called “Audio Converter Studio 6. 0” which can convert almost any file format to another and I would recommend this software to any one who wants to save money without buying songs over the internet.

Now, back to the device; I also bought a silicon cover for the device to protect it from shocks and bumps. You can get these covers from eBay as accessories for your device I think these are very essential to keep the device safe from accidentally slipping through your fingers.

This unit is extremely small to the size of fitting in your top shirt or blouse pocket. Key pad is very easy to navigate as well. All in all I think this device is better than Zen Xifi2 (Latest Version) in terms of size and portability.

And I Love it for its superior and crystal quality sound along with its base effect. It comes with a USB cable which can be used to recharge the device when the battery fades, by connecting the device to a laptop or pc through the help of the same cable.

In my opinion this is a perfect device for storing photos, videos, music and audio recordings.