HIFI WALKER H2 Hi-Res Bluetooth MP3 Player with 64GB MicroSD Card, Portable Lossless Digital Audio Player with ESS DAC, DSD FLAC Support, USB DAC, Line Out, Physical Controls, Supports up to 512GB

I have decades of music listening experience and have been an Audiophile of sorts since my teens. I listen to music thru my HiFi setup using a variety of media including: Vinyl Records, CD's, Mp3 Music Players as well as sometimes streaming. I also listen thru my Harmon Kardon system in my car quite often. I frankly love listening to CD's as they represent some of the clearest and distortion free audio available. They are not, however, terribly portable:) I wanted to re-burn my 600 + Cd Collection to FLAC and enjoy the advancements in DAC technology over the past decade or so. The DAC in this HIFI Walker Player is likely equal to my current CD Player, though my Onkyo CD Player uses a Wolfson DAC and this Player uses a Burr Brown DAC. Either way, both are better than the DAC's of the 1980's that I first listened to my Cd's with. Prior to purchasing this, I purchased the Pyle branded Lossless Mp3 Player, as well as the AGPTek Hi Lossless Mp3 Player. Both of those were returned for the following reasons: Pyle Player - Seemed poorly built and cheap. It was very lightweight plastic and did not appear that it would hold up to heavy use. Also of note was the flimsy and "coarse" thumb wheel that felt simply terrible and UN-precise. To be fair, I did not even listen to it, just sent it back. AGPTek H01 Player. I wanted to like this Player. I loved the way it felt in the hand, the weight of the Player and the case materials seemed to be of high quality. I also liked the rather precise, machined volume knob on the unit. The whole thing had a high quality, industrial/precise feel to it. From a build standpoint, I loved it. I loaded some FLAC files onto Micro SD Card and had a listen. It sounded fantastic until I noticed the balance appeared skewed to the right channel. I double checked everything and sure enough, the output on the left channel was about half the volume of the right channel. Very disappointing. I simply did not want to deal with an exchange etc., so I simply returned it. Mine may have simply been a fluke that got past quality control, but I simply did not want to deal with a faulty second unit, so I opted for the HIFI Walker H2. (Which I suspect is the next newest version of the AGPTek branded H01? When I received the HiFI Walker and opened the box, I was again struck by the weight, feel and quality of the build. After loading a few FLAC files and turning it on, I noticed that the software/interface looked VERY similar to the AGPTek H01. The build quality of both were outstanding. The thumb wheel is not as smooth and fluid as the one on my much older Sandisk Sansa Fuze, but it works fine. The file system and interface takes a few minutes to get used to if you are coming from another Player, but...no big deal. It is easily understood and easy to navigate, in my opinion. How does it sound?! Perhaps the most important question I suppose.... It sounds FANTASTIC! Some people say that they cannot hear a difference between 320 kbps Mp3 and FLAC. I understand that and do not intend on trying to convince anyone otherwise. For me however, the difference between the Mp3 files I have listened to for some 10 years on my very good sounding Sansa Fuze Player, and the FLAC files I listened to on the HIFI Walker Player were dramatically different. Now, I understand that I threw into the mix....two completely different Players, but rest assured...I also listened to the FLAC files thru the Sansa Fuze and the difference in sound quality...especially the low bass clarity and "cleanness" was easily heard. The HIFI Walker simply sounded "more like a CD" than the Sansa Fuze. Keep in mind that the Sansa Fuze is 10 years older, but it has always been noted for very good, neutral sound. The HIFI Walker provides the same neutral, very clean sound...there just seems to be "more of it". I am quite amazed at the sound stage depth as well as the dynamic range of this Player. I am NOT easily amazed. I have only had the Player for about a week, so I cannot attest to its durability. I will be putting it in a case and treating it gently I suppose, as I do not want anything to happen to it lol. Battery life? Seems fine at the moment but I have not run it for several hours to determine the accuracy of the manufacturers claim of 25+ hours. I am a very critical listener and person in general. I spent a week pouring over reviews...many of which appeared suspiciously worded...(bad sentence syntax, word usage etc) I checked the DAC specs on everything that was 300.00 dollars or less. I did not want to spend 1000.00 dollars on essentially an Mp3 Player, heck, I could buy new speakers for that! Some of these new Chinese Players are to be avoided I suppose...some are likely just fine. Determining which is which is the hard part...which is why I originally bought two...then a third via Amazon, because there was simply not enough information out there to assure me I was getting the right Player. So I got them in my hands, tried them out and sent back what I couldn't live with. If you are looking for great sound from Lossless Music files, regardless of type, I heartily recommend giving the HIFI Walker H2 a try. Ken UPDATE: After using this for a few weeks, I have continued to enjoy this little Player. I did want to note, that the very low bass on High Dynamic Range songs really punches with authority. It is neither boomy, nor exaggerated, rather it is prominent and clean. It has just a bit more solid punch in the very low end than my Onkyo CD Player, which uses a Wolfson DAC vs the Burr Brown DAC in this Player. I suspect the DAC is the difference here. My opinion remains the same, a VERY nice sounding Player! Update #2: I tried this on a new JVC car stereo I just purchased for our second car. Middle of the road stereo “quality wise”....but has USB and AUX inputs. I wanted to note that I am unable to use the “line out” with this JVC Stereo because it distorts as if the gain is too high on the player. The line out is simply too “hot” for this stereo’s AUX input. When I switch to the “headphone out” it works just fine with the AUX input...nice, clear sound. However...I noticed the annoying “loud click” between tracks that a couple others have mentioned. It is very distracting and could prove harmful to one,s speakers if listening at high volume. This issue DOES NOT OCCUR if using the H2’s Line Out. Can’t explain it...but that’s the way it is. My solution, unfortunately, was to buy a 256 gb SD Card, load the same FLAC music, and simply leave it inserted in the JVC car stereo USB input. I use the H2’s Line Out in the other car....a BMW with the stock stereo/Harmon Kardon setup. Just be aware of these quirks. I still love the sound and playbCk of the H2.

Amended/Edited Review, December 2022: after using the H2 for some time, almost all the original issues I identified in my initial review have been resolved with my unit, so I'm giving it an extra star. Metadata scanning just took a while to figure out between auto vs. manual, but works great now. The headphone jack issue (I believe) only seems to affect headphones containing an in-line mic (e.g. 3 level barrel plug); regular stereo headphones seem to work fine. I did a fair amount of research on competitive (2022) MP3 players, I really wanted to like the Hifi-Walker H2; I liked it ok, but for the price, I expected a lot more in terms of quality, stability/consistency, and ease-of-use. After receiving mine, I found a grab-bag of qualities-- some excellent, some merely confusing, some disappointing. First, the good news: the sound quality is extremely good. The build quality and metal case inspires confidence and is very good. OTG via USB C is a good feature, though clumsy in requiring a separate OTG cable not provided. The inclusion of a separate, truely "line-level" 1/8" phono jack output, in addition to the headphone 1/8" phone impedence jack is superlative (if only they worked simultaneously). Next, the "middle" points -- features that are ok but could really be improved: the user interface is 'interesting', with the circular selection wheel, but also very quirky -- e.g unlike any hierarchical scheme, there's no indication when you start rotating the selection/menu wheel, where its going to lead you, or where you'll end up. This is complicated by the mixed metaphor of a 'wheel' (suggesting a flat 1-D menu layout) vs. the "Back' button at lower right, suggesting at least a shallow menu hierarchy. The labelling of a separate "Setting" selection (which should be shown as Music Setting!) vs. System Setting is a bit odd. Oh well. Overall, for a MP3 Player with this cost, look & feel I would expect it to also have a FM radio. And WiFi to stream Spotify or others streaming services,. It does offer Bluetooth, but unfortunately I could almost never get the Bluetooth to actually pair with nearby common BT devices, particularly Sony bluetooth speakers, or any other bluetooth speakers. For the very few BT devices it would pair with, it's range was weak & excessively short (<= 10'). I bought this H2 MP3 player mostly to attach as a "fixed, always ready" player (via bluetooth) into my studio Tascam Model 12 hybrid analog/digital mixing console that supports Bluetooth and it does minimally work for that. Luckily, the HiFi Walker H2 did manage to pair with my Tascam Model 12--if it hadn't done that I would have started the return process immediately. When I tested the H2 using its "Line Out" into the Tascam Model 12, I note that using the "Line Out" disables the headphone jack output -- ideally, it would nice to have it output to both the headphone and "Line Out" at the same time. Now for the flat out disappointing points: once I loaded a collection of 50-60 songs on a SanDisk Extreme SDHC 16Gb or 32Gb card, with my MP3's organized by album, artist, genre etc (via the full set of ID3v1,ID3v2 media metadata parameters), I expected the H2 to default to an Auto-Scan, to pick up the SDHC card contents by folder and re-build its indices. No such luck. Under the wheel option "Category" I definitely then expected to find an explicit SCAN NOW option or button. Surprisingly, there is no SCAN NOW option or button, despite the "Setting" option inferring there is one, e.g. allowing one to select "Manual" (whatever that means) vs. "Automatic" (whatever that means); neither setting appeared to work as intended, to perform an active scan of the SDHC media card (here labelled a TF card). Without a SCAN to build the index of a media card's contents by Album, Artist, etc. the wheel option "Category" merely returns "0's" for all the useful categories e.g Artist, Album, Genre, My Favorite, and even "Songs". Only the "Recently Played Songs" category reveals a positive number like 1,2,3 etc. indicating a song played only via manual folder browsing. There is obviously some way to FORCE a "re-scan" of the SDHC media card to re-index it, but I haven't discovered it yet. This is needed to populate the "Category" option's metadata fields like "Album","Artist". Offering an explicit SCAN button for SDHC media shouldn't be a puzzle, it should be clear, up-front, and easy, with the a default behavior that does it automatically like my old cheap Ruizo and every other MP3 player does. Next issue: the player symbology for the "Play" vs "Pause|Stop" seemed backwards to me; when you press the Play ">" symbol, the music player shows a ">" Play symbol when it is already playing a song. When a song is playing, I expected it to display a "||" symbol, since it is already in the act of playing a song, the only logical other action is to Pause the action, not press "Play" or ">" symbol which it is *already" doing. That's a minor logic bug you can get used to. Next: when a song is playing, a small set of vertically oriented sub-options appears on the right margin, and is obscured if an album cover image is underneath it. The interface offers really no indication at all how to navigate to or operate this tiny, vertical set of options. Experimenting reveals the tiny physical "M" button accesses these sub-options, sort of. Once you stumble onto the sub-menu items (Heart symbol for favorites, ">>", "<<" etc, you have to guess that the main wheel is the way you move up & down between them; Again, it works, sort of, but since the iconography and scrolling text is so tiny, due to the overly small non-touch screen, its much more of a chore than expected; a bigger screen would definitely help. Last, the flaky output jacks. Using the headphone jack and Line Out jack was initially frustrating, as these appear very sensitive or fragile for connections, emitted only one side like "mono", and didn't work consistently with several of my high-quality standard 1/8" phono jack cables, studio headphones, and earbuds; I eventually got some to work, but this was NOT a confidence builder, and almost inspired me to return the H2 player immediately, as getting a good headphone (or line out) 1/8" jack to work consistently should be a no-brainer; I finally got it to work in stereo by jiggling it,noting that slight movements caused it to go "mono" again. OVERALL IMPRESSION: See updated review comments at top. Picking up the HiFi Walker H2, you feel its heft and quality and you will like it compared to most others. It has the potential to be a very good MP3 player with some refinements. The interface design could definitely use improvement, as noted above. In my opinion, without a more stable Bluetooth, FM radio, and lack of Wifi, I think its overpriced as it is now. I do enjoy its superlative sound quality.

A truly great MP3 player! I compare the H2 to the ipod classic as I consider the classic to be the best MP3 player and I've been looking for a replacement and the H2 is almost as good as the classic. The sound on the H2 is better than the ipod classic, which was very good in its time. The H2 is solid. All the most likely impact areas that would hit when you drop it are made of metal. It weighs just a bit more than the classic, but not that much. The H2 has physical buttons, which is a much better in an MP3 player as you can find the buttons by touch. The H2 also has no internal memory, which is NOT a disadvantage. I've used MP3 players with internal memories and TF card slots and they always treat the removable cards like an unloved step child. The internal memory gets all the special search features while the removable card gets only file searching, which is stupid when the player has 8GB and the card has 128GB. The H2 treats the TF card as its best loved source. The H2 can handle up to a 256GB TF card and despite what the reviews and the manual says, the H2 can handle well over 14,999 songs at a time on one card. What the H2 does is it can only handle 14,999 songs in its database, aka the categories explorer, which is generated from the ID3 tags. This database is what allows you to search by song, artist and genre and what songs it shuffles. The explorer, aka file exploring, is not so limited. If your files are properly named and sorted in easily searchable folders, it is no difficulty finding your audio. The H2 is extremely easy to use if you have your audio tagged and sorted properly. Naming the songs when order is important is a must as the H2 alphabetizes everything in the computer fashion, as in 09 comes before 10 but 10 comes before 9, or 1/12/22 (December first, 22) come before 1/12/60 (December first 1960). If your music is in folders, like all songs from one album in its own folder and all album folders in the artist's folder and the artists in music, the exploring is a breeze. I have close to 15,500 files and most of them are audio books and podcasts, which I don’t care if they are in the database or not. I had all my music in one folder and my other stuff in the other. The H2 stopped scanning when it reached 14,999 files. As the music folder was named Music and the other folder was named Podcasts, the H2 searched Music first then searched podcasts until it hit 14,999. All my music was in the database and sopme of my podcasts were not. I went to the last podcast by using the explorer and played it easily, despite the fact that it was not one of the 14,999. The OTG feature I found useful as I can leave my 256 card in the unit and plug in another card using a usb-c OTG adapter and a small usb TF card reader. I have a usb-c mini sized usb key that the H2 used with no problem. One word of warning: the H2's headphone jack and usb-c port are very close to each other so you can't use a usb to usb-c mini sized adapter and your earbuds at the same time but the H2 might use such adapter in streaming audio (I didn't try it.) Your best option is just get an OTG cable with a narrow end. It will also work as an adapter other places. When the H2 dims the screen, it also locks all the buttons. This is stupid as there is no reason to lock the buttons as it has physical buttons that can be used by touch. I can see it if you hit the lock button (one click on the power button) but not if you simple save power by letting the screen dim. This is the most annoying feature of the H2. The H2 does not support Audible files. The H2 does not have a play faster or play slower mode, nor does it have bookmarks. You can set it to remember where in the last song you were when you shut the player off. In this mode it will remember where you were and start playing from there when you turn it back on, whether you had it playing or not. The lack of bookmarks isn't too bad as the H2 has a unique fast forward. It is silent but it fast forwards aprox. 10 percent of the song each second for the first two seconds then speeds up to about 30 percent each second after that. I emphasize PERCENT. It is fast to fast-forward through even the longest files. The downside is with the long files, you have no fine control. I'd recommend getting an MP3 splitter and hack your big files into something smaller and use the Gapless playback setting. If they fixed the screen dimmer, no Audible playback and lack of audio book controls, this unit would be far superior to the ipod classic. As it is, it is the second best player I've gotten. Also noticed: the H2 came with no clip, arm band, case or even a carrying strap. It does have a slot for a strap, but no strap. The manual is also lacking, leaving much of the functions and use up to the user to discover. The bluetooth works fine, but the unit's controls do not work as a remote. The already lackluster battery life is also reduced using the bluetooth. The battery life if ok, but I'm used to something much longer. It comes with no music synchronization software. Syncing with your library has to be done manually. It has no "skip when shuffling" feature. This can be handled with a TF card that has only shuffle worthy music on it. Another way is transfer all your shuffle music and those you want in the database, have the H2 create its database then set the unit to scan the card manually. You can then add the rest of your audio files (like audio books) to the card and then access this material by using the explorer. They wont be in the data base but you can still play them. The H2 takes a little over 5 minutes to scan 14,999 files. The H2 sorts podcasts alphabetically, not by release date in reversed order. The H2, when searching its database, has a search by letter first feature if you press and hold the "M" button. It would be good if they added this feature to the explorer function. When scrolling through a huge number of files/folders, using the scroll wheel can be tiring. You can also use the next or previous buttons to scroll rapidly through instead of using the wheel. The wheel has finer control, the buttons are faster Pressing and holding the back button takes you to the top menu. My unit came without earbuds. I emailed tech support and when I emailed them my order number and shipping address, they shipped me a pair! These earbuds are the best sounding earbuds I've ever received with a MP3 player. The price of the H2 is misleading as you'll have to buy a clip, a bigger TF card, an OTG adapter and possibly other charging cables as the H2 uses a usb-c plug for charging, transferring and OTG. The H2 does not play videos, show pictures, read any e-book, have games or any have any apps added. It's an MP3 player. I've been using the H2 for about a month now and I LOVE it! When I say it's second best to the ipod classic, it's a close second best. Of course you can buy a new H2 where the ipod classics are harder and more expensive to come by.

SO disappointed with this. I like having a MP3 player just for music. No audio books (prefer to read), no pictures, etc. I'm not an audiophile, but I like a clear, crisp sound to my music. I loved my Cowon D2, it had a great sound, but it was very buggy and it's no longer supported. It was pricey, too. So I researched and the H2 Walker sounded like a good, mid-priced choice. Got it yesterday, plugged in my sd card and was BLASTED with volume. Quickly found out the volume control did not work at all. Fiddled with the settings, nothing worked. Did some research on the web, thinking a firmware update might be needed. I found nothing, not even an actual website for it. There is a Facebook page for it (and I don't do Facebook anymore). Left a message, still no response. So I figured I received a defective unit, it happens. I set up an exchange on Amazon to get a new one (cudos to Amazon on their exchange procedures, very quick and easy to do). Dropped off the first one at UPS on the way home and my replacement was waiting for me. I had recovered from my headache from the deafening volume from yesterday. I plugged the card in, kept my fingers crossed and tried again. Same damn thing! The player was set to LOUD and the volume control does nothing (you could see the volume numbers going up and down on the screen, but it had no effect on the earsplitting volume). Now the headache is back, thank you very much. Strike two, and that's enough. Set up a refund and went back to UPS to send it back. Not trying this again, I will try the other MP3 player that was my second choice. It's really too bad, it is a very nice player. Solid construction, an intuitive UI, and the sound was really good, even at FULL BLAST. I was so disappointed. On the second one I returned, I was very tempted to keep the headphones (a very nice pair) and the 32 gb card that was included, just for repayment for two straight days of headaches. Do not want any issues with the refund, so boxed everything back up for the return. Based on my experience, not only do I not recommend this. I also think it's potentially dangerous to get that kind of head blast on first use of the unit. LONG time Amazon customer but do not do many reviews. This one I really felt the need to. P.S. WHY is this listed as an "Amazon Choice"? First time I had an issue with a product that was labeled as such.

After debating for a long time on what to replace my old iPod Touch with, I finally pulled the trigger on the HIFI WALKER H2, and it has exceeded expectations. If you want a distraction-free, dedicated music device that prioritizes sound quality over smart features, this is it. I rebuilt my music library from scratch exclusively using FLAC files, and the audio quality difference is night and day. Paired with a decent set of wired in-ear monitors or over-ear headphones, the soundstage is wide, clear, and punchy. There is zero compression bottlenecking, no digital artifacts, and no skipping. The player features a robust equalizer with presets and customizable bands, along with adjustable gain settings to easily drive different pairs of wired headphones. The physical scroll wheel interface brings back the simplicity of the classic click-wheel iPod era, fast, responsive, and easy to use with one hand. Beyond the headphone jack, having a dedicated line-out port makes it seamless to plug directly into a home stereo receiver or powered speakers. No proprietary bloatware or complicated sync programs. Storing music on an external hard drive and dragging folders onto the microSD card works effortlessly as long as your file tags and folder hierarchy are tidy. As other reviews note, the Bluetooth connectivity can be finicky and drop between tracks. If your primary goal is wireless streaming to Bluetooth earbuds, look elsewhere. However, if you grew up in the era of classic Walkmans and appreciate a direct analog signal chain, wired is where this device truly shines. Using wired gear means bypassing Bluetooth audio compression entirely, getting the best out of the internal DAC, and having one less battery to worry about charging. Final Thoughts: No internet connection, no app notifications, and no streaming buffering. Just pure offline high-fidelity audio. For anyone wanting a solid, retro-inspired DAP dedicated to true lossless listening, the H2 delivers exceptional value.

I bought a Bluetooth transmitter to set behind my TV so I could watch TV late at night with sound off and Bluetooth headphones so wife can sleep without hearing noise from TV. This goal has been a nightmare of buying and returning blue tooth receivers due to the sound lag between the picture and the delay on hearing the sound from the average Bluetooth receiver. Also in trying to find a good BT receiver with volume adjustment. I found out about APTX capability to make the blue tooth sound arrive quicker so it can be in sync with people talking on the TV, be it the news or a movie. This lead me all the way up the blue tooth ladder to the HIFI Walker H2. I bought it thinking my problems would be over and then I would have this great MP3 player to use when ever I would normally use my phone to listen to music. The 4.0 Bluetooth in this thing positively SUCKS. I will explain what the HIFI walker is doing and how it is pissing me off. I am using a Bluetooth transmitter, CARPURIDE ASIN B098QGXRHF behind my TV. This CARPURIDE transmitter is pretty decent, It has an LCD screen and shows the connection status, that means it shows one of 3 connection types it is capable of, aptx, apts HD and regular connection without any advanced features. I can connect the HIFI walker to this transmitter but never once has it connected using the aptx or aptx HD. So maybe the transmitter is the issue? I don't think so, here is why. I have a Lavales Bluetooth 5.2 Receiver that uses aptx HD and aptx without HD and it can connect with no aptx. It lights up blue for no aptx, white for aptx and green for aptx HD. Aptx or aptx HD gets me lag free TV watching, sound is synced with peoples lips moving while watching TV. All the different connection types aptx etc is confirmed on the CARPURIDE LCD screen. So, what is the issue shouldn't I be happy? No. this Lavales Bluetooth 5.2 Transmitter has no volume control. I have to walk over to the TV and reach around and adjust the volume on the CARPURIDE transmitter. This sucks. But the Lavales Bluetooth 5.2 Transmitter Receiver when in receiver mode using wired headphones is totally ROCK SOLID with its Bluetooth connection. It never drops, NEVER. Enter the HIFI Walker H2. Lot of good things and 2 bad things, the bad things kills it for me. The 4.0 Bluetooth in this thing does not work well, it drops the connection every 3 to 5 minutes. It disconnects for 30 seconds and then automatically reconnects, I watch it, pull it out and look at the screen. it has totally dropped the connection. 2, I can not get a aptx connection at all. Some times it will go for 15 minute before it drops the Bluetooth connection then does it again and all night long until I just give up and go back to the Lavales Bluetooth 5.2 Transmitter Receiver. I was going to just deal with the non aptx and sound lag and keep the HIFI walker but due to the crappy Bluetooth connection I just cant handle it. That is a shame. I really think the manufacturer should upgrade the Bluetooth in the HIFI walker. I doubt it actually has any aptx at all, but admit it might be the old 4.0 Bluetooth that is not compatible with my more up to date 5.0+ Bluetooth devices. Example of incompatibility, I just bought a brand new LG TV a few months ago. It will not pickup the HIFI walker at all, just does not see it, no matter what, and I spend hrs trying, close, far etc and nothing. I attribute that to the HIFI walker's 4.0 Bluetooth. Other issues with the HIFI walker: It is WAY to heavy. I put it in my front shirt pocket and it pulls the pocket down with it's weight a lot. There is simply no reason for this unit to weigh this much unless the manufacturer thinks this will make people think all this weight equals quality. Ok it kinda does until you put it in a shirt pocket and that weight becomes an issue. Now if I was actually walking with it and that weight was making it jiggle in my pocket, OH HELL NO! Bottom headphone jack, why? Who does the manufacture of the HIFI walker think the head phone connection belongs on the bottom? is the HIFI walker meant to go for walks and play music for the user? Then why build it so the headphone jack is on the bottom? this just makes no sense to me and shows the engineers who design this unit don't actually use it. There is a lot of that in the world. So to the manufacturer, I say "please" re-design and update this unit. I like so much about it, just not the weight and not the 4.0 blue tooth performance and top headphone jack. Now what? I am returning the HIFI walker and going to resign myself to buying the best rated MP3 player I can find with 5.0 or better Bluetooth with volume adjustment. Then, I am just going to live with the slight lag in Bluetooth sync, as long as it has a volume button and a solid Bluetooth connection. There seams to be a ton of them, I just have to search and find the right one. Problem, no one seams interested in the Bluetooth performance on these. No one reviews this. Darn. I am sure there are plenty of people happy with the HIFI walker, lots to like, it just did not work for me due to my main use of it as a Bluetooth receiver using wired headphones, expecting solid connection and hoping for actual working aptx feature. I will be watching and hoping for a redesign of the HIFI walker that cures the heavy weight and the old 4.0 Bluetooth. If this happens I will buy the updated version. Bottom line? I do not recommend the HIFI walker if you are going to use the Bluetooth at all. It just sucks and your more up to date 5.0+ Bluetooth devices are not going to like the old 4.0 Bluetooth on this.

So far, I am enjoying the Hi-Fi Walker H2. I bought it prior to Christmas 2022 to replace my previous player which only held a battery charge for about 2 hours. I have not really had a full duration test with the Walker H2 yet to see just how long the battery lasts, but I can say that it lasted at least 8 hours on a recent long-distance drive playing continuous music! The Walker H2's build is solid. The metal shell makes me confident it will not break if accidentally dropped. One drawback of this player is that the case is sealed, meaning the battery is unable to be changed out. Hopefully the battery will provide many years of service. I appreciate the fact that it accepts up to a 256GB Micro SD card. I have a 128GB in it now (the H2 came packaged with a 32GB Micro SD) from my previous player. I have tons of music on it and have so far come nowhere near filling it up. If you are inserting a new Micro SD card 128GB or above, you may need to first re-format it to the FAT32 file system if not already formatted as FAT32. The Walker uses the FAT32 file system to read/write from/to the Micro SD. Be aware that when reformatting, any existing data on the card will be erased. The controls are easy to learn and use, and the color display is legible. and can be set to one of three styles. One hiccup I encountered early on was navigating the custom EQ settings. The labels for the frequency bands are quite small and I initially had trouble noticing which one was highlighted for adjustment. You basically have to scroll through the bands to the one you want to adjust, select it, adjust it, then click out of it to continue scrolling through the bands. Easy after you do it once. After you set the custom EQ so suit you, you shouldn't have to set it again. There are also 9 other pre-set EQ settings you can try including 'No EQ'. One thing about the play mode of this player that I would change if I could is that you can't just play one album and have it stop after the last track of the album (or the last track in the album's folder). On "Order" (continuous) mode, it moves on to play the next song/album on the list until you stop it or select another track or album. In a way this was good at Christmas, as it just plowed through all the albums in my Christmas folder from A to Z without my intervention. I have not yet loaded any playlists (*.m3U) yet. I'll have to load an album as a playlist and see if it stops playing at the end of the list. The other playback options are single track repeat, repeat all (entire library/memory card), and random. The random playback appears to be a true random which excites me as I am now able to load up my 70's & 80's favorites folders (500+ tracks each) and enjoy a different random playback each time. My previous player's ramdom mode played the same "random" sequence of tracks every time. Loading the tracks to the player's SD card was very easy, but I highly recommend using MP3/ID3 tag info so you can easily navigate through your music (right click on an MP3 file, select 'Properties', then click the 'Details' tab). It can take a little administrative maintenance up front if your music tracks do not come with the tag info filled out, or if you like your artist's names to appear with last name first, or the "The" in a band's name removed or switched to the end of the name (i.e., "Rolling Stones, The") like I like them so you don't have to scroll through a list of bands labeled "The xxx". Anyway, you can just connect your player up to your computer via the included USB cable, turn the player on, and dump all your music files to the SD card once it is detected by your computer. I have not yet tried the bluetooth connectivity feature. Some other features users may appreciate is that the player accepts and displays lyrics files (*.lrc), and displays album art (if contained in the music file). The display can also be set to several different European & Asian languages. Two physical items lacking with this player are a wrist strap, though there is a loop built in to hook one on to. Also, there are no ear buds included, though they would probably be very basic (aka cheap) and you, as I, would use our own devices anyway. All in all, a solid device with just a few small but manageable cons thus far.

Cons: The stock UI is terrible, and would honestly have killed my opinion of this unit completely had I not installed Rockbox onto it instead. The stock UI sorts either by artist or album, not artist AND album, meaning if you select an artist in the menu then all that artist's songs are in a single alphabetical list instead of nesting album files WITHIN the artist file. I listen to albums cover to cover, so I'm so happy Rockbox could fix this problem. Bluetooth audio is also unreliable and seems very short range, occasionally losing connection when in my back pocket, so I can't recommend for BT users or casual listeners looking for a great product out of the box. Pros: The hardware of this unit is pretty stellar, I can listen to 96khz 24bit tracks seamlessly. The sound is incredible with a nice pair of overears (I use Audio Technica R50s), and I will happily not be returning to streaming audio as my main music source. If you are an audiophile and tinkerer that uses real corded headphones with wide frequency reaponse, you will be very pleased with this DAP after customization.

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!

Fantastische speler met zeer goed geluid Er wordt vermeld tot 256 gb kaartje maar mijn 512 gb werkt prima zodat ik alles in flac er op het gezet een echte aanrader. Het menu komt een beetje eenvoudig over maar als je het een tijdje gebruikt blijkt het toch wel handig te zijn.

Correcte levering en goed product.