HIFI WALKER H2 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.2, Lossless DSD FLAC Player, Digital Audio Player Hi Res Portable Music DAP Player with 64GB Micro SD Card, Support Up to 512GB

I am a music addict. Although I have gotten used to streaming music off my phone, I still like owning my own copies of records, CD's and downloads. I was an early user of iPods and loved my 128GB iPod Classic when it came out. The problem was that I did not like iTunes and preferred flac files over MP3 or other formats. I recently went on a long vacation where I did not expect to be able to stream music easily or cheaply, so I planned to bring by old iPod classic with me. However, when I bought a new portable speaker for the trip, I discovered that most such speakers are blue tooth only. They don't have input jacks at all. On a lark, I searched for "blue tooth MP3 players" and up came a whole host of products I never knew existed. After reading multiple reviews, I bought a HiFi Walker H2. I was impressed with the size and the quality of the build. It is small, but feels like is solidly built. After playing around with it for a bit, the controls became fairly intuitive. At first, I was disappointed that I had to scroll through all of my music alphabetically which took forever to get to groups at the end of the alphabet. Then I discovered that if you looking through your music in the "Category" menu, you can simply hit the "M" button and the alphabet will come up on the bottom of the screen. You can then go from A to Z to narrow your artist or album search to the specific letter in the alphabet. Initially, I downloaded my entire music library in MP3 format so it would all fit on a 256GB micro SD card. However, I really wanted to figure out a way to put all my music in flac format on the player. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I was not able to narrow my flac library down to fit on a 256GB card. On a lark, I bought a 512GB card and downloaded my flac library on to it (about 384GB total). I then popped the card in the player and let it update the library from the new card. Voila! It worked. I now have my entire flac library on the player with plenty of room to add more music. The sound quality is amazing on good headphones (B&W's), and I was blown away the first time I plugged the player into the jack in my car. Wow. It also sounds great on my Bose blue tooth portable speaker and worked great on my extended trip. It sounded okay on a cheap pair of blue tooth ear buds, but I blame that on the ear buds and the fact that I was listening to my MP3 library, not my flac library. The price can't be beat either. Who would have thought that you could buy a better quality, higher memory capacity and iTunes free music player for this price. Nice job. I am a very happy customer. UPDATE: Since loading the 512 GB micro SD Card, I realized something important. The player will recognize and play all of the music on the card in the "Explorer" mode. However, you cannot quickly scroll through the list of folders in this mode. All of the music cannot be seen or played in the "Category" mode. This is the mode that sorts the music by artist, album, song, etc. The Category mode apparently has a ceiling of 15,000 songs. This is the mode that allows you to quickly scroll through the music by letter if you push and hold the Menu ("M") button. I also discovered that when you disconnect the player form a computer, it re-analyzes the library for the Category mode and doesn't always discover and list the same albums. It seems also random which artists/albums it includes in the Category list. Nevertheless, it is still good to know that it will play an entire 512GB card even if it can't/won't categorize all of that music. In reviewing other players like the HiFi Walker touch and the Surfans, it appears they have the same limitations.

With a few tweaks, this could be the perfect price/performance ratio in a lossless portable audio player. The Good: For a device this inexpensive, it has a much better than average sounding DAC handling the decoding. It is good enough that the quality of the cables you use will actually be a factor in the sound quality. Use high-quality cables if you plan to connect this unit to an amplifier. Also, use a clean amplifier with low distortion levels and a decent reserve of power for transients. This player can push the full dynamic range of your recordings to the amp. If you're looking for a good, yet relatively inexpensive micro-amp, this pairs really well with an SMSL AD18 for driving a good set of speakers. It also successfully connects to that amp using Bluetooth, but I recommend high-quality direct cabling if possible. Even with the advances in Bluetooth recently, I still find the quality of the output superior when directly cabled. It is also nice to have decent navigation controls and a built-in display on such an inexpensive, yet high-quality music player. The built-in lithium-ion battery with a standard USB charger makes it easy to keep this player charged. The standard USB cable means it can be charged by all those high-capacity rechargeable portable battery packs that are commonly used by campers, hikers, or anyone else who hates being tethered to a computer or AC outlet. The Bad: The display is tiny. It is difficult to read the text for anyone with less than perfect vision. They allow you to choose to display album art, but they only display it as a microscopic icon in the upper right corner of the already too tiny playback screen. Despite the album artwork being so small, the rest of the display during playback is mostly wasted by displaying "wallpaper" rather than useful information large enough to actually read. I would have been much happier to have a larger version of the album art or a song list displayed in that huge space. Then again, you won't want the display powered on most of the time anyway, because it drops the battery life significantly. Then there is the Bluetooth. It is extremely flaky to pair with various devices. For example, I own two Denon receivers which were made and purchased within a couple months of one another. One of them will pair with this player. The other will not. I tried everything I could think of to increase the likelihood that it would pair, going so far as to pull out my entertainment furniture and climbing behind it to hold the device 12 inches from the antenna. I also discovered that it would only pair with one of my four micro-amps which have Bluetooth interfaces. That amp was the SMSL AD18 I mentioned earlier. Overall, I really like the high-quality output of this budget-friendly lossless audio player. I also like the compact size and the music library navigation features. If they could improve the display and fix the Bluetooth to work with more devices, this would be the perfect first player to purchase for lossless music playback. As it exists now, it is still a good value with a couple of annoyances which may or may not matter to you. Those annoyances cost this device a star in my review, but many would likely overlook the shortcomings because of the price/performance ratio. The player does sound great, after all. That may well be enough for most people. One Tip: When you add a really high capacity microSD card to this device, it may have trouble using it. I used a 256GB card and what I discovered was that I needed to connect the music player to my PC in "USB mode" not "PC DAC mode." Once connected, I could access the memory card inside the device just like any other thumb drive. I used this configuration to format the memory card while it was inside the device. This was insanely slow, so I suggest running it overnight while you sleep. Once completed, I have had zero problems reading any files copied to the device. I actually used the same method to copy the files, which again, was crazy slow. But since you only do it once, I figured having the same device write the files which was going to be reading the files would be the best way to ensure trouble-free usage. So far, I've been right. UPDATE: I've been using this player a lot since purchasing it. At this point, I have even used it with headphones. (I only sent the output through amps before that) I'm still blown away by the sound quality coming out of this unit. Using the amazing TI PCM5102 Burr-Brown DAC, the sound quality compares favorably to many of the $600+ units those big-name companies are selling, but at a fraction of the cost. Even when listening to music using my admittedly mediocre earbuds, the sound quality remained amazingly good. Also, since my original review, I have found a few more devices which pair with the player, but most still don't. Plus, I discovered the large empty space on the display will display song lyrics if you have copied lyric files into the folders where each individual album is stored. The few annoyances I noted originally remain, so so there is no change in my 4 star rating. If fractional stars were allowed, I might give it a 4.5 just for the amazing sound quality at this price point.

Estaba buscando un reproductor de música ya que no quería traer musica en mi cel porque me gusta escuchar musica en formato WAV y FLAC el cual llenaba la memoria de éste. Otra característica que necesitaba era que el reproductor no tuviera pantalla touch. Quería lo mas analógo posible y haciendo una investigación vi bastante recomendado este HiFi Walker H2. En mi experiencia en estos meses de uso, el HiFi Walker ha funcionado como lo esperado. Obviamente si quieres escuchar audio con calidad, el aparato por si solo no lo hará. Necesitas audio en formato lossless y un par de audifonos o bocinas de alta definición. En mi caso tengo musica en formato WAV y FLAC, escucho a través de unos IEMs y se escucha bastante bien. El HiFi Walker incluia una tarjeta de 64GB pero yo le puse una nueva de 256GB. Los botones se sienten analogos, justo lo que quería y la pantalla es minimalista y no te distrae. El HiFi Walker solo reproduce musica lo cual es lo que yo buscaba. Nada de apps, ni internet, ni fotos, ni videos. Un reproductor de música que solo haga eso. Tiene bluetooth y funciona bien. No soy fan de escuchar audio con audifonos bluetooth (al menos no cuando realmente quiero escuchar en alta definición), pero la función ahi está.

Tenía muchas ganas de un reproductor de música flac que tuviera un mínimo de calidad, así que un amigo me recomendó éste y desde luego no le puedo estar mas agradecido. La presentación es muy buena, viniendo perfectamente protegido el dispositivo en una plancha de espuma, junto con unos auriculares, un cable de carga y varios juegos de almohadillas para adaptar los auriculares a nuestros oídos. La primera impresión es tremenda, el reproductor tiene un tamaño pequeño, pero tiene un peso considerable lo que siempre me da buena sensación, la carcasa es metálica, con la parte trasera en plástico brillante al estilo cristal.En al parte superior está el botón de encendido, en el lateral derecho los botones del volumen y la ranura para la tarjeta Micro SD, que incluye una de 16GB, en la parte inferior está el conector de auriculares, el de carga o conexión a PC, la salida de línea y una ranura para adaptar una correa. Por último en el frontal tenemos la pantalla lcd, que puede parecer pequeña, pero se ve estupendamente y todos los botones de control, llamando la atención el circulo de control que recuerda a los reproductores de una época pasada. Como recomendación y para disfrutar todo lo posible del reproductor, lo mejor es grabarla en calidad FLAC, de esa manera os aseguro que se disfruta muchísimo más la música y eso lo he descubierto con éste reproductor. Los auriculares que vienen son de muy buena calidad, teniendo la caja metálica y el cable trenzado, consiguiendo muy buena línea de sonido, me han sorprendido muchísimo la verdad, nada que ver con los auriculares que he tenido hasta ahora. La batería no puedo confirmar la duración, pero teniendo desactivado el bluetooth, todavía no he sido capaz de agotarla, si bien cada vez que lo conecto al pc para traspasar música también carga el dispositivo. Es interesante el hecho de que también se puedan conectar cascos por bluetooth y el funcionamiento es muy fácil ya que basta con activar el BT y nos aparece la opción de buscar dispositivos cercanos para vincularlos, si bien yo por calidad, recomiendo el uso con auriculares por cable, la diferencia es enorme. El uso es muy sencillo e intuitivo, y en caso de tener alguna duda el manual es de fácil compresión y te resuelve cualquier duda que te pueda surgir. La verdad es que creo que es la compra con la que estoy disfrutando mas en mucho tiempo.

Very easy to get started with, just add songs to the root of the sd card. Bluetooth works good, the only thing I can complain about is that changing song directly on my bluetooth headphones doesn't seem to work unless the screen is on. Sometimes I can change the song one time but that's it. Other than that it's great, highly recommended!

this is probably one of the best things ive ever bought. the sound is crisp and loud, the bass is thumping and the highs excellent. the screen is clear, i bought some £10 betron earphones and it offers a crisp rich sound, best mp3 player ive ever had, excellent value for money, i had an issue with loading songs onto the player at first but all i needed to do was open the players window on my pc and actually create a Music folder so i can transfer all my songs onto that folder and it worked. the menu is pretty easy to understand - i cant fault it!, its quite heavy as its made of metal with a glass back, plenty of features on the menu to play around with, i put it on max volume and high gain and customised the equilizer to get the best sound out of it

Very good