Hisoundaudio AMP3 Pro 2

Dec 30th, 2009 | By David

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With little demand for an audiophile portable music player, Hisoundaudio still introduced the AMP3. Being a combination of a portable music player as well as portable headphone amplifier, the AMP3 is a very attractive product to audiophiles on the move. There is only one other product that would compete with the AMP3, which is the HiFiMAN HM-801 costing over four times as much.

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The AMP3 has a lot to improve on in terms of user interface, but I think Hisoundaudio hit a sweet spot in terms of balancing size and sound quality. Long battery life, high quality earphones, high end FM tuner, and an expandable microSD slot makes the AMP3 well worth the low price. The AMP3 is also worth its weight in being a portable amplifier for efficient headphones. With such a nice sound signature coming out of the AMP3, many music enthusiasts could overlook the interface flaws and enjoy the clear, detailed sound coming out of this player.

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Advantages

  • Low price

  • Resistant to scratching, aluminum body
  • Very long battery life
  • Great sound quality
  • Valuable stock earphones
  • Excellent FM tuner
  • Doubles as a portable amplifier

Disadvantages

  • Interface problems

I would like to thank Hisoundaudio for making this review possible.

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  1. portable December 31st, 2009 12:15 am

    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.

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  2. Codecs December 31st, 2009 10:15 pm

    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.

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