Machspeed Trio 1 GB MP3 Player Voice Recorder Thumb Drive
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Customer Review: machspeed trio A+
Summary: 5 Stars
machspeed trio 1 gb mp3 player also a 1gb flashdrive i have no complaints it works great. I recommend itCustomer Review: Great for the price; has some bugs
Summary: 4 Stars
Good if it meets your needs. That would be a player that demands small size and low price. Music during exercise, shopping, computer lab, falling asleep, or just as a flash drive.
You must be willing to accept these limitations.
1) Random play. Serial browsing is obviously ridiculous for 1 GB (probably 350 songs at 128Kb), and it doesn't have resume, so you must like random. e.g. you don't mind skipping through selections until you find one you want to hear.
2) Power on / off. Sometimes the unit decides to shut off during power up. You have to briefly disconnect the battery to fix it. Also, you have to return to the main menu (vs. song play) before power off works.
3) Battery. If you fall asleep listening (that's me), your battery is of course dead in the morning. Bought a cheap ($10) nimh charger that comes with some batteries (ray-o-vac).
4) User interface. You have to learn two durations of button press to navigate. Also, the unit appears dead (like 1-2 seconds!) when entering and leaving the play menu; indexing songs I suppose. (This and #2 are probably generating a lot of product returns.)
Sound is fine. I've had equalization problems with more expensive players (GoVideo, Rio). Random play is fine. Random on some players is a joke (Memorex mp3-CD).
Removable battery is great. Who wants to get stuck with a dead lithium that costs more than the player to fix? I'd rather carry an extra battery in my pocket.
Has a hold slide switch, so you can put it into your pocket. Being able to choose the backlight color (from a rainbow) is cool.
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Customer Review: works well enough for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought this because I wanted a good bit of space for as little money as I could manage.. and with that in mind, it's not bad. The controls are not at ALL intuitive, unfortunately (and the manual is NO help with anything), but I eventually sorted out all its quirks. Files can be sorted into folders, which is very nice. The main drawback I've found with this is that you CAN NOT put more songs on it without completely wiping off everything else first. You can delete just fine within the player's interface, but you cannot delete tracks from (in the case of Windows) the My Computer window. And it tells you everything is write-protected if you try to add something more on without having deleted everything first. Given that I only swap things out once a week or so, this is a managable flaw, but still a needless one. Apart from that, battery life is decent, and so far mine's put up with rain and pretty large temperature variations, as well as being dropped a good bit. Sound quality's not fantastic (most of the equalizer settings sound atrocious), but it's not to the point of being irritating.
Again, for the price and the amount of space, it's decent enough. Works just fine, once you sort out the controls. The size is also very convenient, it's perfect for just casually dragging it around with you everywhere in a pocket or what have you. (And much less to worry about than an iPod!)
Customer Review: Bargain MP3 player
Summary: 4 Stars
I took a gamble on this player, and I've been pleasantly surprised. I agree with a previous reviewer about the manual: it's pretty poorly written. But I got the gist of what they were saying, and after 10 minutes of exploring the player I've figured out most of its features.
As for the player's features... the sound quality is good, and the random track feature is surprisingly good when compared to other (admittedly cheap) players I've used. On many other players I've used the random track algorithm has been far from random. But this one seems quite authentic. The controls are kind of odd, but the UI is fairly good. The headphones that come with the player are poor quality, but the player itself seems fairly well made.
It's not an iPod, but for this price you can't really expect the same level of quality. I didn't have to deal with a rebate, so I can't comment on that possible issue. I also didn't run into any OS issues: it just worked seamlessly with XP from the start.
Considering the price, and the fact it's got 1GB of memory, on the whole this is a good little player.
Customer Review: Not perfect, but good enough for the money
Summary: 4 Stars
I read most of the comments before buying this mp3 player. I was thinking I might be lucky without suffering what people complained. Indeed, I am lucky. Mine works fine including browsing folders, etc. The voice recorder is not that great. I think that is due to the mic+ADC sensitivity. The manual is indeed not clear but the principle of operations is pretty much the same as other mp3 players especially on the short press vs. press-and-hold. So, I end up figuring out most of the operations myself. The manual has some strange grammar in the text. It was probably written by a foreigner. It would be nice if this unit also comes with an FM radio. But you pay what you get.