Neuros 4020300 USB 2.0 MP3 Digital Audio Computer Bundle (20 GB/128 MB)

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• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008RJVU
• Item model number: 40102 00
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #115,679 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 5, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Our most popular item is back with the added speed of USB2.0! Get the flexibility of two players for the price of one. The Neuros Bundle allows you to use your 128 MB flash player with the small included backpack when portability or the ultimate shock resistance is needed. Then swap with the included 20 GB backpack and your have up to 5000 songs at your fingertips and ears! This makes it easier than ever to swap on the fly. The Neuros bundle puts together all the pieces you need for ultimate flexibility and value.

Listen to FM radio, MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV files. Record to MP3 and WAV from the onboard microphone, radio or line-in. Broadcast your music to your home or car stereo or high jack someone else's!

Product Description

Need enough music for a week? Or two? The Neuros HD has the capacity to hold 5, 000 songs, and superior functionality to provide the technology you demand in an MP3 audio computer. The Neuros can broadcast songs wirelessly to any FM radio. It can record and identify songs from the FM radio. With automatic synchronization all your downloads, playlist changes, and requests from your PC library will be automatically executed. The Neuros HD is completely customizable to give you the digital music experience you envision.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The one to buy if you really love music, December 11, 2003

By	Drew (Meridian, ID USA) - See all my reviews

I've owned my Neuros 20GB for about four months. I had the opportunity to audition a number of portable music players, including the iPod and the Archos Jukebox, among others. The Neuros won't win any beauty contests and its USB 1.1 interface is not the fastest in the world. But it has some very interesting features, including "MyFi", an FM transmitter that I use every day to listen to the Neuros over my truck's radio. I've used HiSi a few times with moderate success. It allows the user to record a snippet of music from the radio, then identifies the song when the player is synchronized with a PC and the Neuros synchronization software. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

The Neuros supports Ogg Vorbis files with the version 1.45 (beta) firmware. Initially I was concerned that the firmware was beta, since I didn't really want to be a guinea pig on my dime, but it's quite stable...I have had no problems at all. The Windows-based synchronization software seems a little clunky to me, but an excellent third party application, NeurosDBM works much better (and it's free). The Neuros (when used with NeurosDBM) is platform independent - I've synchronized it on PCs running Windows and Linux, a Sun Blade 1000 and an Apple iMac.

But what really sets this device apart from anything that I auditioned is the quality of the sound and its ability to drive low impedance, high quality headphones. I listen with a pair of Grado SR-125 headphones. They have the (occaisionally irritating) quality of bringing out the worst of a marginally performing piece of equipment, besides being a very challenging electrical load to drive. The Neuros sounds extraordinary through them. No, it's not like my home system, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of the iPod (and anything else I've listened to) in pure audio quality. Even with high impedance Sennheisers, the Neuros beats anything else that I've heard. To me, the music is what matters. So, while the slow USB interface can be a bit of a pain, the wait is well worth it. My recommendation? Buy the Neuros 20GB, use the money you saved over an iPod to buy a GOOD pair of 'phones, grab the latest firmware and NeurosDBM software. You won't look back!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what was i thinking?, April 14, 2004

By	Charles F. Belleville (Redlands, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I take it all back. this is a brick. crapped out quick. if you want convenience buy and ipod. if you love music buy vinyl. it's that simple.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Options and price won me over from the iPod, January 19, 2004

By	K. Myles Becker "seussman71" (Westminster, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A few months back, I was in the market for an MP3 player. The options I wanted were fairly simple: Large capacity (10 Gigs of space or more), multiple format choices (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc.), playlist compatible, and upgradeability.

So I started my research. Right off the bat, I LOVED the iPod choice. It was small, had great capacity, and support for many different file types. Plus, it is made by Apple, and while that usually means more money, it also means quality. However, when a friend suggested I take a look at the Neuros, I was won over almost immediately.

The 20 Gig version had everything I was looking for, but it was the things I wasn't looking for that completely sealed the deal. It has a built-in FM broadcaster, so you don't have to worry about getting an after-market one. And it broadcasts over most of the FM spectrum, instead of just 4 channels, like most do. It also has a built-in FM receiver, microphone (time is limited only to the hard drive space available), ability to record from FM, and a feature called "HiSi" which allows you to take a digital fingerprint of a song from the radio and find out what the song is.

Plus, the software and firmware are open source, which allows creative developers to add lots of functionality to the machine.

I've had mine now for a little more than a month and have been very pleased with it. The only reason I don't give it 5 full stars is that it is sometimes a little temperamental, but if you have the patience to hang in there, it's so worth it.

Also, right now, they have brought the price down to under two hundred dollars, but Amazon hasn't changed their price yet. Go to their website to find it for less (google neuros or go to neurosaudio dot com).

Finally, the Neuros has a great set of users and developers who are constantly posting on the forums set up at their site. I have found this to be a great source for figuring out how to solve problems or do things better with the machine.