HIFI WALKER H2 Touch, Hi Res MP3 Player with Bluetooth, 2.4” HD Touch Screen, Digital Audio Player, DSD Lossless FLAC Player, Bluetooth Music Player with 64GB Memory Card, Support Up to 512GB

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

I use it in conjunction with a set of Sennheiser HD25 headphones for portable/on-the-go/walking/outside use. The sound quality is truly excellent; suffice to say that it can generally be characterised as neutral, balanced, transparent: i.e. accurate. It fulfils all I would wish for sound quality wise from a portable setup. (My "reference" comparison setup is against a Topping A90 headphone amplifier/D90 DAC + Sennheiser HD800S). It compares very favourably, providing a good chunk of the performance for something in a portable package. In short, the sound is everything you could want for/hope for from a portable and reasonably priced DAP, and could be legitimately described as "audiophile". Because it works as a mass storage device, or you can simply load files directly onto the microSD card, this device works great out of the box with Linux; no fancy drivers required. (I should note I installed Rockbox on the device immediately after getting it (hosted install/dual boot), though the original firmware seems perfectly serviceable/decent. Rockbox enables me to use my 512GB microSD card, whereas the stock firmware is limited to 256GB. Rockbox firmware does seem to have a bug with generating a database, at least with my FLAC collection, however, since I just use the file browser (because all my FLACs are perfectly organised in a <artist>/<album> directory structure), this is of no concern to me)). I haven't tested the Bluetooth or Line Out performance, mainly because I doubt I will ever use this functionality. Listening using only lossless FLAC files (mostly 16bit/44khz), I'm trending toward 10-15 hours battery life. Summary: 1. Audiophile sound quality. 2. High quality output stage with excellent volume adjustability/range. 3. Decent, clear screen. Lock button functionality to stop unwanted button presses. 4. No audio glitches, breaks, or defects (note that I've done nearly all of my listening using Rockbox rather than OF) in use on the move. 5. Fair/reasonable price. 6. Solid build with lovely feel - perfect size and weight for carrying around. 7. Easy loading of music onto memory card/mass storage device, no garbage proprietary software required. 8. Decent, if not exceptional, battery life. Rockbox works very well on it (see caveats above), meaning you could potentially use a gigantic memory card with it if so desired, if you're a geek/power-user. (I'm using a 512GB card.) 9. Included fabric drawstring bag to protect it from scratches is a nice touch. Only costs them a few pennies and means you've got something to protect it right away. Meanwhile there is a metal loop you could affix a lanyard too as well, useful if you're the type of person prone to dropping things!

All in all, this is an excellent little music player which I've only had 24 hours, but it's been pretty much used constantly. It's not perfect, hence four stars, not five. I won't go into the technical details as there are some far more competent reviews about sound quality, specifications etc. For me, this was a replacement for my wonderful little Sandisk Clip Jam which has just given up the ghost, and is now discontinued. In a sea of what seem to be cheap (and nasty?) players around the £20 - £50 the HiFi Walker is expensive but it's in a different league to all the others. It's very solid, heavy and really well built, the buttons have a good feel to them, and the music quality is pretty awesome. The battery lasts well - on one charge I've been listening to music and talking books for over 14 hours, and the battery level indicator is showing 50% full still. Contrary to some other reviews, mine came with a very concise instruction booklet that is easy to understand and is extremely helpful. Maybe the manufacturer took notice of the previous comments and upped their game. The only negative for me is the user interface, which quite frankly is poor, confusing and not intuitive. That said, everything you could ever want is there, including a sleep timer (frustratingly hidden under 'system settings / display settings / scheduled shutdown'). If you spend some time going through things, the menu starts to make sense, but frankly it should be easier.

As a summary, I'm very pleased with this music player. I've used it for 3 weeks and it's great while out and at home. Pros: Compact, structurally well made (but note Con). SD Card provided. Screen easy to read. Nice and bright. Touch screen is sensitive and responsive. Fits into the palm of my hand with side buttons for volume up/down and track back/forward/pause. It can go VERY loud! (Use the set max vol function!) Cons: front and back glass is showing signs of fine scratching so likely not gorilla smart phone type glass. When out walking I can hold this in my hand in my pocket with thumb at the volume buttons, fore finger on the display on/off and middle fingers on track f'ward/back buttons. It all fits great. I set the EQ to normalise my IEMs and tweaked the MSEB to my liking. When I want to change album just press the top button once, screen comes up and navigate to what I want to listen to. (You can set screen time off and also switch on/off button function when screen off). I use my desktop to transfer music to the SD card and then fit the SD card into the player. I once had over 3000 tracks on it but I don't do that now as it makes finding what I want to listen to a little harder (the screen is effective but limited in viewing size) Battery life has never been a problem. I've topped it up every other day. I took a bit of a chance on this music player but I'm very happy with it. Now familiarised with it's functionality it is a super little device to own.

I bought this as my old iPod Classic has become increasingly temperamental and I read some generally positive reviews. I’ll also make the point that I’m old school in listening to music, usually preferring to play an album all the way through. Firstly, the basics of the HiFi Walker are quite good. Its build seems solid – more so than an iPod – sound quality with decent spec, connected in-ear listeners is up to scratch, the navigation fairly intuitive and it works fine when connected to another device with speakers. Also, its big advantage over an iPod is that you can just connect it to a computer then drag and drop music folders onto the SD card; much better than messing about with iTunes. Also, the ability to take up to 256GB is a big plus if you have a lot of music. But there is a significant fault. The machine has a function to search for music by category, which is meant to react to the metadata on the files – ie genre, artist, album artist, composer – but it doesn’t work. I’ve been in touch with the manufacturer’s customer service team about the problem but they have been unable to resolve it. Even though I’ve ensured the files have the metadata attached – using MP3 Tag software – it fails to read them and shows a line of zeros. The only category that does work is the ‘favourites’, which is created on the device itself. It is possible to get around this if, like me, you tend to take one approach to searching for music, as you can build it into the file structure on the SD card. So I tend to drop albums into a folder for that artist which then goes into another for the relevant genre. But if you want to take different approaches to the search at different times you can’t do so. Also, there’s a quirk that I find irritating, in that once an album is played it quickly moves onto the next track in the file structure, which means another album. Maybe not a big issue, but I like to have a pause once an album is finished (probably because I listen to a lot of classical and jazz). On top of this, it’s not completely clear what some of the settings are meant to do, and the manual doesn’t make it clear for every function. Overall it’s a decent device and I expect it would be OK for a lot of users, but there are clearly manufacturing faults and I wouldn’t go as far as recommending it. An update on this - After a few months use I discovered this runs on an older version of Bluetooth that doesn't connect with all receiving devices. If I could I would remove one of the three stars.

I am very disappointed with this MP3 player, I liked the models design however I have had major issues with the earphone port and the line out port. I bought this model specifically to use it with my wired headphones and to connect it by cable to my stereo system. However, these ports do not work, with no connectivity when headphones are fully plugged in or only mono-sound when I've partially plugged in my headphones. I have tried multiple pairs of headphones and there is clearly an issue with the ports. Furthermore, I have also had issues with the devices bluetooth, with the player only connecting with headphones but not with my alexa.

This a high class personal music player, similar is shape and size to the old iPod Classic. Upon opening the box, your are presented with a very nicely packaged kit. You get the player, a 16Gb SD card inserted into the unit, a Micro-USB cable and a pair of wired headphones. Turn on the player via the power button at the top; 3 seconds to turn on, 3 seconds to turn off. You are presented with the main menu interface. CATEGORY allows you to select your music via song, album, genre etc. ID3 tags are supported, as well as lyric files and album art. EXPLORER allows you to view all your music in the 'classic' view, with album art and the time bar. SETTINGS allows you to change the player to your personal preferences, 3 themes are available and as well as wired headphones, you can also use Bluetooth to connect to wireless headphones or speakers. There are next and previous keys as well as a very handy 'back' button, and navigating the music and menus is very easy via the main 'scroll wheel'. This takes a bit of getting used to as it first appears as if it is touch sensitive but you actually have to press and turn, something which I had a bit of trouble with at first, but once you get used to it it is very easy to use. There is no software that I can find to get your music onto the player; you have to insert the SD card into your computer and drag and drop the files. A huge range of music formats are supported, so whatever format your collection is in you shouldn't have a problem playing it on this. The sound quality really surprised me for such a small payer. I have tried a few different formats and they all sound excellent; deep rich bass and clear sharp vocals. A graphic equaliser function is included on the player so you can fine tune to your taste. My only to negatives are with the scroll wheel (it could be much better if it was touch sensitive in my opinion), and I feel that there should be some software to enable the transfer of your music. But these are just my personal negatives. The player is excellent and very light and pocket friendly, and produces excellent sounds. I am happy to recommend it. Thanks for listening.

First off, the player itself is a nice, small, sleek looking device. Nice build, doesn't feel cheap, strong. Fits in your pocket very nicely. The sound quality can be really quite good, but I have noticed some tracks can "crackle", but I'm not sure if that is possibly something that happened during transferring the music, or the player itself. There are features like searching by genre, artist etc..., but don't expect these to work. You will be transferring your files to a drive, to the micro sd. For some reason, the player wont find any music, you have to manually go through the menus, selecting files, sd card, then scroll for your music. Scrolling can be quite a pain, as sometimes the device thinks you scroll left or right when you are going up or down, which brings up another screen. My biggest complaint about this device, and if you on hard wiring your headphones this wont affect you. It is the blutooth. This is very dodgy. I use my bose quiet comfort ear buds (sound great), but I will lose my connection every now and again. To restore it, I have to turn the device off and on again. Another thing, when you want to connect your blutooth when the player is on. You might not hear anything, though it will show on the screen that blutooth is on. Turn the touch off, then on again. Not sure why, but it wont connect properly if you try connecting your blutooth phones/buds while the touch is on. Overall, it is a nice bit of kit. Just be warned that the blutooth is very much a gamble now and again. Hardwired, this is a great wee player. Edit - sitting in the airport trying to listen to my music. The Bluetooth is just awful. Absolutely awful