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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Audiobook Player- mid size version, April 24, 2009
This is the best audiobook player. I also have an Ipod 80GB Classic and had a Zen Vision M. It leaves both for dead.
- superb sound quality.
- excellent bookmark function- 256 bookmarks. It returns to the bookmark and continues to the follwing tracks (unlike Zen which just stops, as do many other players, and windows mobile players).
- the touch screen is very nifty and the smart menus pop up nicely. Navigation quickly became intuitive.
- the standard folder structure makes loading books and tracks very simple. I am over Itunes and do not miss it.
- 16GB or 8GB or 4GB of internal memory, then an SD slot which means you can have as many SD cards as you want. bookmarks work on the current SD card no worries.
- excellent for music albums.
- the video function works well when I test it, although I am not interested in using it routinely.
If you're looking for the best portable audiobook player, you've found it. But if you just want to listen to audiobooks on your computer get ViddyMP3 for free. Or if you want to tinker get Rockbox free software for various portable players. I think the D2 is great for music too as its sound is clearly superior to Ipod and Zen to even my untrained ear.
It does not do playlists, but really who needs them? I mainly used to use them to work around Itunes bugs.(maybe I like compilation albums, but I can just compile a folder of MP3's any way I like).
Wishlist- on the fly erase & click for more details on the bookmarks (but still the best for bookmarks), playlists (OK already).
Tips- use the stylus supplied for navigating the touch screen.
- when you first ever turn it on, be careful as the first thing you do is set language and I accidentally clicked Korean!! It took a while to return it to English, ha ha.
- If you're not sure just buy the 4GB Black version [...], and later expand it with an SD card.
Note that Cowon also make the S9 which I have not seen. It is more expensive and uses a different screen technology.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best of everything, but!, July 11, 2009
I have many Cowon products. To name a few. The D2+ and a D2 16gb. I have
an A7 16gb and a A7 8gb. Lastly, I have 3 8 gb U5's. I will cut right to the chase! For sound and other on-board excessories (radio reception, battery life, expansion capability and picture capability) you can do all the searching and exploring you want, Cowon blows all other MP3 players totally away. Lastly, it is so easy to drag and drop files and folders!
Ok! Here comes what is completley horrible concerning Cowon's Marketing!
1. The Manual has just got to go and be rewritten in order a person can
see the directions and understand them.
2. Customer Service might as well be on Mars, they are unreachable by e-mail or by phone.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best, Read the 'History of my Audiophilicity', July 23, 2009
Dear Interested review readers,
For people who want a one liner: Go for it, along with the Sony MDR-XB40EX.
For people who judge my bias towards this very product read ahead..
OK. So I have tested, thanks to my Dad who traveled overseas allover from India often, quite a number of devices over time.
And technologies change, so does taste.
I started with the the Philips Magnavox AQ 6581, stereo cassette player. Good, at least that's what I could afford with my allowance.
Great bass, which only the Sony headphones could handle. Please note one thing about Philips' products, the systems are top-notch, the headphones always suck. By a pair of phones from Sony if you have less money, or a BOSE if your wallet is too fat to sit on. What I learnt from an Audiophile club here at the University of Maryland is that Low-freq Bass depends on the amount of time it takes for the Diaphragm to push the air. The longer it takes [Physics, my boy!] the deeper the bass. For Sony headphones [haven't had a chance to rip open a BOSE, with my Graduate Assistantship, I'm sure some of you can understand], they have these spirals that tend to prolong that time. So you get deeper bass. With Philips, you get a thud, powerful, but for people who want to listen louder, even for the headphones that thud becomes too overbearing, as a result the sounds distorts. FYI, deeper bass is in the range 8Hz - 100 Hz, and Thuds are in the range 200 Hz- 350 Hz, approx.
Ok, then I grow up, and want more, right? So my Dad, giving way to my constant nagging, gets me a Panasonic CD player, something like the SL-SV590W. But I guess the actual model I had is no longer available, plus it was bought from Laox, so I dunno if it is available any where else other than Japan. Anyway, my dad apparently asked some Japanese people, only to know that they preferred Panasonic to Sony because of clarity. For all the time I had the player, it was the best thing that happened to my ears, then. The other thing I noticed about Panasonic, which Sony tried to imitate later, was the excellent efficiency in battery-life. Anyway, some soma-bitches stole it from me. End of story.
Made do with the Sony D-NE520 for a long while, until I was too ashamed with my CD player, with people carrying iPOD shuffles and stuff.
Even some ipod rave-abouts were envious.
Then next thing that happened to me was the Sony NW-S703F Noise Canceling Walkman. Noise canceling awesome. Battery life freaky 35+hours. Sound quality exceptional.
Now, please note that this player had a freq rating of 20-20k Hz. The NC earphones were magic. Big bass, and smooth sound. Parametric equalizer was sexy. But I was limited to 1 gb, and Windows OS [I am a computational chemist, and use Linux], and the stupidest software ever, SOnicStage. Time, and money [saved some] for change.
Coming to the present, I wanted something with [priority wise] 1. Exceptional sound, 2. more storage, 3. exceptional battery life, and flexibility to connect to a Linux system.
Never liked ipod. Too pricey, and everyone has it. And sound is ok, headphones suck [recall aforementioned thud??].
Bingo! Cowon!! Used JetAudio before, liked it, so thought I'd give it a try. After all, if cowon is so good with this BBE incorporation, they shouldn't be too bad with hardware.
Result: Euphoria. Cowon headphones sucked. Warning: I bought myself, since I had prior experience, the mdr-nc22 series noise canceling headphones form Sony. Big mistake. Not because they were bad. It's because one should always note the power of the player and power handling capacity of the phones. Cowon D2+ boasts a 78mW of power, and the mdr-nc22 could handle 50. Returned to Amazon. Thank God for Amazon.
Then bought me the Mdr extra bass thingies. Note that power handling cap. was 100mW. My suggestion, get something that has a phc of at least 20mW more than that of the player.
Plugged it in. ipods, yepps, iphones, jvcs, sonys, blown away. MACH3Bass, as they call it was incredible. Along with all-independent eq, 3d sound, it doesn't get better than this!! With the MPE turned on, and BBE+ to 3, treble was superb. Battery life: I've played on a full charge for 8 hours to a trip to ocean city, with constant DJing, and battery was up full even after return!! Listened to it, intermittently for about 3-4 hours/day, for a week!!
Final verdict, if you believe me by now, buy it. Spend cowon 8gb [=$125] + sony phones [=$40] = $165, is gonna f*** everything else.
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Thanks for reading. Enjoy your new Cowon d2+
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