H2 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth, High Resolution Bluetooth MP3 Music Player, Lossless DSD DAC FLAC, Portable Digital Audio Player with 64GB Memory Card, Support Up to 256GB

So let's start this review by saying that I'm comparing the H2 to my other main portable audio player - a Sony NW-A45 and I listen to both using Bose Soundlink II headphones. I also use a Soundmagic A30 DAC, or a HiBy FC1 DAC to listen to audio on my phone - still through the Bose headphones. Generally I listen to FLAC or 320K MP3 files. So that's the criteria and (no pun intended) baseline.Cut to the chase - audio quality is excellent. Music is crisp and sharp with stereo separation being clearly defined, giving a very wide sound stage. The bass isn't quite as dominant as with the Sony which has a warmer sound, but the H2 offers a clearer musical quality instead. Horses for courses. There is an equaliser function where you could try to emphasise the bass, but this made every other aspect worse - just leave it turned off. The UI isn't quite as intuitive as I'd like but does the job - it seems quite difficult to navigate from currently playing to Settings, for example. On the plus side though it remembers the menu setting between power cycles, so if you turn it off while playing a track - that's what you get when you turn it back on, but if you were playing with equaliser or another menu heading, it will take you there when powered back on.As well as music I tested several low bitrate audiobooks which were presented well, the spoken word coming through clearly, although I did have to turn the volume up more than I'd expect to get the clarity.The physical device is a solid piece of kit - metal-bodied, and it weighs 160g, which is nearly half again as the Sony. It's slightly larger in all dimensions, and has a less "friendly" shape with sharper edges and buttons. The case is of that irritating type that picks up fingerprints and smudges instantly and I'd like to see a dedicated case for the player, but it does come with a little felt baggie to keep it in. The proud buttons make it easy to operate when it's in your pocket, but the spinwheel would take some getting used to. Battery life has been good - it's run for three hours and still shows plenty of battery life, charging seems to take around an hour or so - depending on initial levels and the type of charger of course.Note - this is the new version that has USB-C instead of the older micro-USB port. It comes with a Lexar 64Gb micro SD-card that's good for a reasonable number of high-quality format tracks, and it's nice to see it being a recognised name brand - and of course rather than rely on internal memory you can just add a new one up to 256Gb when needed.For the price, this is an excellent little player, but you need comparable quality headphones and source material for it to really shine. I tried it with my son's store-brand headphones, and although it put up a good show, it wasn't the same as with the Bose. The same with 192K MP3 files - they sounded muddy and indistinct.

This really is a great MP3 player straight out of the box, I listen to a lot of 60s and 70s pop and rock with a smattering of classical thrown in, to me so long as you use a decent headphone or buds the bass and treble are just right, sound is clean with no hiss and no need to use the equalizer. Some people say it isn't true HiFi but again to me it's pretty darn close and again it depends what phones or buds you are listening through. The stereo separation is superb but I do find it slightly annoying that you cannot delete a track directly with the MP3 player and have to do it by computer, or at least I haven't found a way to do it, but apart from that little niggle. Battery life is good with more than ten hours play time. For £105 this is a really good price for such a good personal music machine, if you want a £1000 sounding MP3 device then this is what you have to pay but for £105 I can't fault it. Yes the bluetooth is slightly down on volume to your external amplifier but aren't most bluethooth devices, but you have a volume control on your amp as well as the one one the MP3 player so I don't have a problem with it, for me this is a good player at a decent price

Brilliant, nice tidy bit of kitSimple to use, old styleGreat sound

This is my second MP3 hi fi walker. The first one I had many years but stopped charging due to the connection. Good to see the latest model has a USB C connection which is slot more reliable. All I did was take the SD card out of my old one and put it in this and away I went.They still haven't improved the Bluetooth. Although it works and connected to my devices the volume has to be cranked up.The main reason I like this though is as an MP3 player. The sound is superb, rich bass with clear high treble.

Bought to replace a beloved Sansa Clip+ with a dying battery and failing 3.5mm socket. Mainly for car use shuffling thousands of tracks with easy skipping via a physical buttons that can be felt without taking my eyes off the road.The good: the sound quality is lovely. Thunderous bass, crisp treble, no distortion, no hiss, all a 1960s child could want (having grown up with cassettes), just that clear stable solid airy quality you want. The EQ allows me to boost the 6kHz region I need, that was lacking before, so that makes a huge difference for me. For that, I'll use this H2 and put up with its failings. But let me share them...No, I can't easily skip tracks. It needs to be picked up, the power button pressed to wake it up, then you can skip tracks. With the occasional audio thump as it does so, which the Clip+ never did (not too loud though, thankfully). At least it plays right from the start of an mp3 no matter how trimmed it is, which is something the Swofy clip-style player (which was my first attempt to replace the Clip+) won't do. Or VLC on the PC! But it fails at the other end of tracks sometimes, clipping the end of a well trimmed track with a sudden end. Grrr.Skipping back through the shuffled play is fine, but if you go back several tracks, then forwards skip, it doesn't go back forwards again through the same sequence - it always gives you a new track. However, going back again will take you to the ones you had before. Odd navigational behaviour.Most annoying: turning the H2 takes a long press (way longer than the Clip+) and then it takes over 15 tedious seconds to start playing the last track again... and from the start instead of picking up from where you shut down like the Clip+ did. Oh, and while you're cursing the waste of your precious time, enjoy having to turn the volume back up again too! Turning off takes a loooong press too. A couple of times I've thought it was off, and when I returned hours later there it was merrily still playing. At least the battery lasts that long :)The other buttons are confusing as heck, I'm still getting used to the seemingly random and haphazard way they go around the options and modes. Meh.So, it's 3 times the size of the Clip+, heavy, built like a tank, feels like it'll last but not as easy to accommodate in the car due to its heft. And it's annoying to switch on and off or skip tracks. Doesn't seamlessly flow from one track to another like the Clip+ did, which was breathtakingly good at times, like having my own radio station. The H2 often seems to take longer than I expect to start the next track. Bearable, just not as perfect.The Clip+ had a simple option to play the 50 most recently added tracks, for when you've just added some new ones. Missing from the H2. I'll have to add a folder called NEW and then play that folder, I suppose.While I used to be able to fumble for the Clip+ while driving and skip to a new track with a single easily felt button press, this H2 is real faff. Baffles me how Sansa got so much perfect all those years ago, and we seem to have gone backwards and have lost the art of simple mp3 playing :(The search for a Sansa Clip+ replacement continues...UPDATESOh, and with Apple Earpods hooked up, the control buttons on the lead don't do anything. Even my old phone lets me pause or skip tracks back and forth with that. (to be fair, the Clip+ doesn't either)A number of times now I've experienced momentary drop-outs, half a second of silence, like buffering, early on in a listening session. Annoying!