BENJIE K9 8G APE/FLAC/WAV Entry-Level Lossless Music Player FM Radio Recording

Nice, very well built little (and I do mean little) DAP with great sound.The UI is a little difficult to navigate at first but it's manageable.I would have preferred having physical volume buttons but, once you get the hang of using the click dial, it's a fairly negligible omission.All in all, a more than worthwhile purchase, especially if you plan to use it as a secondary device for work or outdoors.At $20, it's a fantastic bargain.

What can I say: - good to excellent sound (To my ear better than sansa clip, Nexus 6, Note 2) - battery life as indicated - good volume output - small easy to carry - easy to read screen - seems well constructed and has taken a few falls with no problem - about $20! - effective equalizer settings - I find the controls easy and effective after a short time with them

great little player, could use a few things and would be even better. Needs the ability to make playlists from both the internal storage and the SD Card at once. Would be nice to be able to do shuffle within an artist or genre. For the price, this is nitpicking though, solid player for the money.

Très bienBonne batterie

Works well

This little device has some nice features, including its physical construction and color screen. I also like the speaker on the device that allows you to listen even when you're not using ear-buds or head phones.It is fast-booting! Long-click the center button to turn on/off the machine without using the physical switch, while the physical switch is still on.It provides a reasonably clean/clear audio quality from even medium-quality MP3's even at low volume.However, this device fails /miserably/ in its user interface. I call it a user anti-interface. It's so anti-intuitive, you just want to chuck the device into the nearest recycle bin. I feel like the user-interface designers of the Benjie K9 must have derived some perverse joy from making people use an anti-intuitive interface like this one. In my mind's eye, I envision them cackling wildly at me in their harshly-underlit design studio, drinking smoking glowing green liquid out of a wacky chemistry beaker set.To navigate up and down a menu, you don't use the up and down buttons... No no no... You use the left-right buttons. To navigate left and right you use the center button and the volume (down) button. To navigate forward, you use the center button. And I'm not even sure the interface is consistent across functions/modes. The M button does more than menu -- I think -- but to get to the menu, you have to long-click. Likewise to get to the volume you have to long-click the volume button -- if you're in the right mode. The center button does some things as expected, but not others... Every other device with a standard five-button physical interface uses a relatively consistent user interface, pretty much across brands. Not this.I like to listen to audio books while I sleep. If I stop the device and then start it up again, the volume defaults to ear-blasting levels. I was finally able to find the setting that reduced the allowable maximum level, but even then, I like to have the volume at the lowest possible sound level while I'm sleeping. It doesn't always remember your volume when you start playing it again. It took me several attempts to actually get the maximum allowable volume level to stick.If you navigate around the interface while it's playing, there is no easy way to get back to a visual representation of your playing stream. If you're listening to a book, you end up turning it off and then back on again. It should come back to a visual representation of what's playing. It starts playing without preamble.You're listening to an audio book and suddenly without warning, a track plays randomly out of turn -- even though you turned off random. And you can see the "random" icon showing, but you know you didn't enable random playback, and the random icon was not onscreen earlier...To get to the various functions like "Folder View" or "Tools" you click the volume button -- if you're in the right mode... Good luck determining that.If it's not on the 8G internal memory, you'll have to use the folder system to access your tracks on the external microSD card. It doesn't keep a library listing of the tracks across your system for you unless it's in the internal memory. (It may be capable of this, but I couldn't find it in the bowels of the tools section.)This interface makes it too easy to delete anything. And I mean anything... No, you're not just removing something from the playlist. You're deleting the actual track or the playlist. No confirmation. No asking of that's what you really want to do. Just... done... What is up with that?!?!?Likewise, when you select an option from the settings section, there is no visual confirmation that you actually accomplished your goal of turning off "random" playback or other settings. You have to go back and see that "Off" was actually selected.When OLED's are in the fully blacked-out position, they emit no light. I question whether this device actually has an OLED screen. When it's plugged in, the screen actually glows even when blacked-out. Example: Plug your device into a USB charger. Start a song playing. Remove all light sources from the room or go into a closet. Wait for the screen to go dark (30 seconds at default). The screen will be dark grey - like many computer monitors. That's usually the sign of a backlit LED screen. It may be OLED -- but why would the screen glow dark grey like that even when it's technically off?This device could have benefited from:- A physical volume rocker. Wading through a series of clicks on the button dial takes too long.- More precision at lower volume levels. I'd like to have gotten the volume even lower for listening at night when my house is super quiet, but that was not possible with this device.- Better fonts, more attractive color considerations between functions, better icons. LED and OLED screens are capable of such rich colors, yet they went with black and white with touches of red and gray exclusively, even from function to function/mode-to-mode. They used a prison-typewriter courier font-style. This is the font you use to torture people by making them read municipal documents until they expire of ennui. This font does NOT make me think of music or joy. I suspect the grey sans serif font used in the mode section is actually a gif image.- Open source user interface consideration... Sure, the open source Rockbox interface has not been recently updated, but for the time and effort of adding an in-house updated version of rockbox, they could have had a far superior user interface that people would have loved. Why more device creators from outside the US aren't adopting rockbox instead of creating disappointing and frustrating Frankenstein interfaces like the one in the Benjie K9 is a mystery to me.- A hold/lock button. At first, I thought the physical on-off button was going to be a lock button. Why didn't they make this the lock button -- like every /other/ MP3 player out there?I'm returning this device after several frustrating days of clicking wrong buttons. If you're used to using up and down buttons for up and down, and left-right buttons for left and right and you don't want to mess with creating the muscle memory for an already-disatisfactory anti-interface that fails to keep settings, avoid buying this unfortunate device. I would like to have given this device more stars. It definitely deserves at least one star for physical solidness and sound reproduction quality even at low volume. I couldn't give it two, because frankly the frustration of using the interface was the deciding factor. I felt like a subject in a anti-interface behavior study, and I can honestly say that I hate that.

Bought and very disappointed for sound quality.same song played on Ipod nano beat 100% vs Benjie K9don't buy even u save 80$.