Hisoundaudio AMP3 Pro 2
Dec 30th, 2009 | By DavidThe design of the AMP3 takes us back in time, with a thick aluminum frame, small screen, and buttons that resembles the 1st. generation Apple’s Shuffle. The case is made out of a brushed aluminum, which feels solid and very resistant to scratches.
On the bottom of the player, there are two LEDs, a USB port, and a microSD card slot.
At the top of the player are a headphone jack, line in jack, and a reset switch.
Here you can see a size comparison between the AMP3 and a credit card. It is only slightly smaller, and has the thickness of about a quarter.
The included earphones were designed in-house by Hisoundaudio, and are labeled as the PAA-1. They have a J-cord design (one side shorter than the other) with an inline volume control.
Now that the AMP3 has been thoroughly examined, let’s move onto the installation.
i suppose they’ll improve the ui, and the looks is ok with me, but:
4+16 G is too low to expect us to use flac or wma at 320 kbps or mp3 at 320 kbps, with low storage (and the need to carry a lot of songs) you have to use low bit rates, and for that it is recomended to use he-aac -many codec comparisons show it-, (nokia suggest 48 kbps, i use 50-70 kbps).
i don’t want to reconvert my music (nor i have ‘master’ copies at high rate to do it) so to atract customers that already have their music in he-aac, the ones that have aac from itunes, etc., the player needs to support that. this is for PORTABLE uses (and even at home i don’t have a silent environment).
also, the player ir supposed to be forgiving of low bit rates (or the radio, or whatever is put on the line-in ).
for same, it’ll be good if they put a noise cancelling function.
I agree for the He-AAC. Also, I need WMA-PRO10 support for some 64 kbps files.
At high bitrates there’s little difference between codecs, but at 48 kbps He-AAC is the best.