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Surfans F20 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth, Lossless DSD High Resolution Digital Audio Music Player, High-Res Portable Audio Player with 32GB Memory Card, Support up to 256GB

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Model name F20 HIFI Player
Special feature Portable
Connectivity technology Bluetooth
Memory storage capacity 32 GB

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  • 【High Resolution Music Player】: This bluetooth mp3 player owns outstanding superior audio, adopts advanced DSD decoding technology to reduce distortion; the hi-res audio player can capture the depth and breadth of each note. It's ideal for audiophile to enjoy live music
  • 【 Lossless Audio】: Lossless Music Player Utilizes advanced PCM510xA 2.1 VRMS, 112/106/100 dB Audio Stereo DAC chip, with a maximum sampling rate of 44.1¨C384 kHz /32 bit. Supports all major lossless music formats: FLAC, WAV, WMA, M4A, MP3, MP2, AAC, APE, ALAC, OGG, AIFF, DFF, Native DSD64 (2.8MHz) DSD 128(5.6 MHz), etc
  • 【 Humanization design】: This digital music player adopts 2.0" HD screen. Distinctive ALPS scroll control wheel enables fluent operation, a high-grade zinc alloy chassis gives a comfortable feel and touch, not to mention sturdy protection for prolonged durability
  • 【Bi-directional Bluetooth 】: This high res audio player features of Bluetooth V4.0 of for communication that will change your life, double-way lossless wireless bluetooth transmission with APT-X protocol. Music player can broadcast to bluetooth-enabled devices such headphone, speaker etc; and also can be a Bluetooth receiver
  • 【Outstanding Battery. Expandable Storage】Enjoy up to 10 hours of uninterrupted high-res audio by headphone or Bluetooth. F20 player does not have build-in memory, but an extra 32GB SD card already inserted in player. You can expand the storage up to 256GB via 128 GB SD card or via another 128GB USB OTG (OTG cable not included) and enjoy a music library as long as 14,000 songs

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Surfans F20 Bluetooth Mp3 Player

Outstanding Superior Audio, ultra Low Out-of-Band Noise, integrated High-Performance Audio PLL with BCK.

Utilizes with advanced TI's segment-DAC PCM510xA chip to achieve excellent dynamic and high-performance audio (up to192KHz/32bit )

Enjoy DSD Playback, Experience the natural sound and intense detail of DSD audio formats, thanks to the high-quality digital audio, it can reach 64 times the CD audio sampling rate.

Display: 2.0 inches TFT Display (320*240)

Customized Equalizer (EQ): Rock / Classic / Jazz / Pop / Dance / Vocal / Blues / Heavy Metal / Customize etc.

USB OTG: Via USB-OTG cable, it can read tracks and data from OTG devices and it enables up to 256GB capacity (USB-OTG cable not included)

USB-DAC: Under USB-DAC mode, the player can be used as a computer decoding amp

Line-Out: It can be connected with amp like car stereo and other home audio via Auxiliary Audio cable(not included)

Apt- X Bluetooth 4.0 Transmission Supported£ºIt can improves the transmission of sound via Bluetooth.

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Customers are happy with the build quality, sound quality and value of the mp3 player. They mention that it's well made, has a nice metal body and that it performs very well for the price. Some are happy about the performance, while others are disappointed with the screen size and disagree on ease of use.

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20 customers mention17 positive3 negative

Customers like the sound quality of the mp3 player. They say it has a really good sound, the music sounds a lot less jumbled, and is easy to use.

"...Use with your phone using a music app such as Spotify sounds incredibly nice. Good balance of sound. Crisp. Warm, clear soundstage...." Read more

"...Sound quality is excellent and plays all formats...." Read more

"...a memory card, and as much as I hate the saying BUT OMFNG the sound is incredible. So easy to use and build quality is exceptional...." Read more

"Threw a 256GB sdcard in it. Works well, sounds good. It talks to fosi BT amps too. No mucking around with 3rd party software or iTunes. Yay. :-)." Read more

12 customers mention9 positive3 negative

Customers like the quality of the mp3 player. They mention it's affordable, fantastic, and easy to use with outstanding sound quality. Some say it'll be a good choice for those who don't want a touch interface. Overall, customers are satisfied with the sound quality and battery life of the device.

"This is one of the best DAP's it can compare to some of the big names on a budget. It can be used as a streamer...." Read more

"...If you have a parent who cannot use touch based devices, this is a perfect player, which does not require computer skills...." Read more

"prosmall, good solid body, easy interface, simple mp3 player, battery life reasonably long.32gb includedcons..." Read more

"Awesome and Affordable DAP player, unfortunately it didn’t come with a USB-C charging plug, it still uses Micro USB...." Read more

11 customers mention11 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the mp3 player. They say it's an excellent old school media player with great quality. Some customers also mention that it performs very well for the price.

"...simply plug this into a speaker to blast out the audio, and it does the job very well...." Read more

"...Apart from that excellent prices and quality. 10 out of 10 to Amazon because it was delivered to me on a Sunday...." Read more

"The F20 works well. Bluetooth works great on all of my headphones except my cheap Kmart headphones only 1 earbud works...." Read more

"Awesome and Affordable DAP player, unfortunately it didn’t come with a USB-C charging plug, it still uses Micro USB...." Read more

10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the build quality of the mp3 player. They mention that it is well-made, tough, and has a nice metal body. Some say that the product looks great and is a high-quality music player.

"Unit of solid construction. Controls are well laid out. The sound quality is good...." Read more

"...So easy to use and build quality is exceptional. I would give it 6 stars...." Read more

"prosmall, good solid body, easy interface, simple mp3 player, battery life reasonably long.32gb includedcons..." Read more

"It’s built very well & it works very well." Read more

10 customers mention7 positive3 negative

Customers like the performance of the mp3 player. They say that the Bluetooth works great on all of their headphones and that it works with most Bluetooth 4.0 devices.

"...Bluetooth capability is a nice touch, paired pretty easy with a JBL Charge speaker- UTF8 encoding of file names works-..." Read more

"Threw a 256GB sdcard in it. Works well, sounds good. It talks to fosi BT amps too. No mucking around with 3rd party software or iTunes. Yay. :-)." Read more

"...i don't know whats the reason of bluetooth not working properly.sound is fine to me. im not really sensitive person." Read more

"The F20 works well. Bluetooth works great on all of my headphones except my cheap Kmart headphones only 1 earbud works...." Read more

17 customers mention11 positive6 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the mp3 player. Some mention that the interface is easy once understood, and the menu operation is pretty simple and convenient. However, others say that the buttons are fiddly and not easy to use, the product is difficult to navigate, and clunky to use.

"...use touch based devices, this is a perfect player, which does not require computer skills...." Read more

"...So easy to use and build quality is exceptional. I would give it 6 stars...." Read more

"prosmall, good solid body, easy interface, simple mp3 player, battery life reasonably long.32gb includedcons..." Read more

"...came with the unit was useless as the text was too small and difficult to read. However, it is available online...." Read more

7 customers mention0 positive7 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the screen size of the mp3 player. They mention that the screen is too small to read, the font is also very small, and the display is a little on the tiny side. Some say that the packaging it came in was not in good condition.

"...The display screen can be difficult to read and I had to reset the display to max brightest and turn the cover art off to be able to read the track..." Read more

"...The screen is small and font hard to read, but does everything you need. Sound quality is excellent and plays all formats...." Read more

"...When i received my order the Packaging it came in was not in good condition, however the device itself was safe." Read more

"...All in all a good little unit my only gripe is the display being a little on the tiny side bit that is it." Read more

Navigation works okay for big collection… metadata support is lacking
4 Stars
Navigation works okay for big collection… metadata support is lacking
So, firstly my situation: i have a big music collection (8855 songs) in Ogg/Vorbis format that is ~28GiB in size. My previous player (an 8GB AGPTek) even with the aide of a 32GiB MicroSD card couldn't manage the shear number of files… that plus a nearly dead battery meant it was time for a new one. (if it weren't for its file limit, I'd have just replaced the battery.)The files in my collection are tagged with the usual metadata (album, artist, title, album artist, track number) as well as embedded album artwork (embedded JPEG).Unit I received had v2.2 firmware loaded. Product of China (isn't everything these days?). Identifies itself as follows when plugged into USB:[26594.792553] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd[26594.920136] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=c502, idProduct=0023, bcdDevice=ff.ff[26594.920143] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=5, Product=6, SerialNumber=7[26594.920145] usb 2-2: Product: SURFANS[26594.920146] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SURFANS[26594.920148] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SURFANSPros:- Getting the thing loaded with music is pretty simple, it appears as a USB storage device and you can mount that and copy the files across at USB 2.0 speeds.- Supplied 32GiB MicroSD card (ADATA brand) write speeds are decent. (Tested with laptop built-in SD interface.)- User interface is easy enough to navigate, not too many surprises. On first power-on it will ask for UI language, and there's a wide selection there.- As advertised, it can manage the full collection I have (advertised limit is 14000)- Seems to respect directory structure (I have files organised album artist/album title/track artist - title.ogg)- Bluetooth capability is a nice touch, paired pretty easy with a JBL Charge speaker- UTF8 encoding of file names works- Can play music off a conventional USB mass storage device via USB OTG cable (I used one from a Raspberry Pi Zero kit, 512GB USB stick was formatted FAT32)- Can display cover art embedded in FLAC recordings (but seemingly little other metadata)Cons:- For Ogg/Vorbis at least, it seems to support very little metadata, in particular, it can't seem to group by artist or album at all, and no cover art displays- For FLAC, cover art displays, but again, seemingly no support for other metadata- Category shows 0 artists, 0 songs, 0 albums, 0 genres (there are 476 albums on the MicroSD card), seems incapable of "scanning" the MicroSD card or USB mass storage device to find them- "Random" seems to be within tracks of a single directory, there doesn't seem to be a way to "random play" all files on the SD card- Handbook makes reference to features that don't seem to exist (e.g. "All songs" interface)- Recent played songs only shows the song title with no other identifying information (you see a song called "Crazy", maybe it's by Ted Mulry Gang, maybe it's by Icehouse, maybe it's by Seal, my SD card has all three of these!) -- lots of players also get this wrongUnknowns:- Unable to tell if it respects album artist when grouping by album since it seems incapable of any grouping at all----UPDATED: So it won't scan if you plug a pre-loaded MicroSD card in, and there's no way in the UI to tell it to do that. BUT, if you load over USB 2.0 with the player as a mass-storage device (I used `rsync`), it will scan the internal storage when it boots up.HOWEVER, scrolling through all songs, it just shows the "title" -- if you check the photo, the player shows apparently 7 copies of the "same" song. Only 3 of them are actually the same as each-other:- Aerosmith "Crazy"- Icehouse "Crazy" (which appears 3 times, as the "Man Of Colours" album has the normal album version plus two extended remixes)- Seal "Crazy"- Ted Mulry Gang "Crazy"- Mud "Crazy"With the exception of the remixes of Icehouse's "Crazy", these songs are not remotely alike, and should be distinguishable when browsing. The manufacturer should amend the firmware to display something along the lines of ${TITLE} - ${ARTIST} - ${ALBUM} ${DISCNUMBER}/${TRACK}… then it'd be possible to fully differentiate these.
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Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2024
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Unit of solid construction. Controls are well laid out. The sound quality is good. Was able to pair Blue Tooth to several devices but the volume was too low even when set at Maximum. However, I use hard wire headsets with plenty of volume so not an issue for me. The display screen can be difficult to read and I had to reset the display to max brightest and turn the cover art off to be able to read the track details. The font is also very small. The small instruction manual that came with the unit was useless as the text was too small and difficult to read. However, it is available online. Overall I am happy with the unit despite a few minor negatives.
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Reviewed in Australia on 22 May 2023
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This is one of the best DAP's it can compare to some of the big names on a budget. It can be used as a streamer. The sound on a car stereo is unbelievable. Has a really good sound. Used with wired Sony's headphones and the sound is superb. Use with your phone using a music app such as Spotify sounds incredibly nice. Good balance of sound. Crisp. Warm, clear soundstage. Can't go wrong with the price. There are more expensive DAP's but, this one is a great contender. You can connect your phone on Bluetooth with it and use it as an amplifier to your car, home sound system. Very flexible. Love it 💗
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Reviewed in Australia on 17 March 2024
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Bought to replace my old ipod Nano which is dying after around 15 years of use. Surfans is very cool retro yet furturistic. The screen is small and font hard to read, but does everything you need. Sound quality is excellent and plays all formats. Only downside is the volume or next track buttons wont work unless you turn the screen back on whilst your strolling around but not a big deal. Could use some software to make playlists easier as you do it all through the tiny screen and its a bit fiddly. Overall great unit!
Reviewed in Australia on 20 January 2024
Colour: Grayish BlackVerified Purchase
I went through various online YouTube reviews and a few forum reviews. Most rate this product as excellent. All of this is true and I don't need to elaborate on what you can find elsewhere.

This is a good DAP for those that do not want a touch interface. If you have a parent who cannot use touch based devices, this is a perfect player, which does not require computer skills. I can simply plug this into a speaker to blast out the audio, and it does the job very well.

If you are in Australia, I would buy this item on one of the Amazon sales, when it is fairly priced and is comparable to the standard USD to AUD exchange rate. Otherwise, you end up paying around $50 Aussie tax on this product.
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Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2023
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I have a lot of rare music on a memory card, and as much as I hate the saying BUT OMFNG the sound is incredible. So easy to use and build quality is exceptional. I would give it 6 stars. I listen through sennheiser IE80S and IE80S BT,the Bluetooth lever is low to my liking. Apart from that excellent prices and quality. 10 out of 10 to Amazon because it was delivered to me on a Sunday. (It does not have a touch screen) But as I have said soo easy to use.
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Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2023
I have a lot of rare music on a memory card, and as much as I hate the saying BUT OMFNG the sound is incredible. So easy to use and build quality is exceptional. I would give it 6 stars. I listen through sennheiser IE80S and IE80S BT,the Bluetooth lever is low to my liking. Apart from that excellent prices and quality. 10 out of 10 to Amazon because it was delivered to me on a Sunday. (It does not have a touch screen) But as I have said soo easy to use.
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Reviewed in Australia on 23 January 2024
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pro
small, good solid body, easy interface, simple mp3 player, battery life reasonably long.
32gb included

cons

small screen.
bluetooth issue(a lot of speakers and headphones are not paired at all.)
JBL flip 3 works,
HD450BT, UE wonderboom3, buds 2, JBL 600BTNC not working.

overall

seems fine. if you lucky your headphone or speaker paired.
i don't know whats the reason of bluetooth not working properly.
sound is fine to me. im not really sensitive person.
Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2023
Colour: Grayish BlackVerified Purchase
So, firstly my situation: i have a big music collection (8855 songs) in Ogg/Vorbis format that is ~28GiB in size. My previous player (an 8GB AGPTek) even with the aide of a 32GiB MicroSD card couldn't manage the shear number of files… that plus a nearly dead battery meant it was time for a new one. (if it weren't for its file limit, I'd have just replaced the battery.)

The files in my collection are tagged with the usual metadata (album, artist, title, album artist, track number) as well as embedded album artwork (embedded JPEG).

Unit I received had v2.2 firmware loaded. Product of China (isn't everything these days?). Identifies itself as follows when plugged into USB:
[26594.792553] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[26594.920136] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=c502, idProduct=0023, bcdDevice=ff.ff
[26594.920143] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=5, Product=6, SerialNumber=7
[26594.920145] usb 2-2: Product: SURFANS
[26594.920146] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SURFANS
[26594.920148] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SURFANS

Pros:
- Getting the thing loaded with music is pretty simple, it appears as a USB storage device and you can mount that and copy the files across at USB 2.0 speeds.
- Supplied 32GiB MicroSD card (ADATA brand) write speeds are decent. (Tested with laptop built-in SD interface.)
- User interface is easy enough to navigate, not too many surprises. On first power-on it will ask for UI language, and there's a wide selection there.
- As advertised, it can manage the full collection I have (advertised limit is 14000)
- Seems to respect directory structure (I have files organised album artist/album title/track artist - title.ogg)
- Bluetooth capability is a nice touch, paired pretty easy with a JBL Charge speaker
- UTF8 encoding of file names works
- Can play music off a conventional USB mass storage device via USB OTG cable (I used one from a Raspberry Pi Zero kit, 512GB USB stick was formatted FAT32)
- Can display cover art embedded in FLAC recordings (but seemingly little other metadata)

Cons:
- For Ogg/Vorbis at least, it seems to support very little metadata, in particular, it can't seem to group by artist or album at all, and no cover art displays
- For FLAC, cover art displays, but again, seemingly no support for other metadata
- Category shows 0 artists, 0 songs, 0 albums, 0 genres (there are 476 albums on the MicroSD card), seems incapable of "scanning" the MicroSD card or USB mass storage device to find them
- "Random" seems to be within tracks of a single directory, there doesn't seem to be a way to "random play" all files on the SD card
- Handbook makes reference to features that don't seem to exist (e.g. "All songs" interface)
- Recent played songs only shows the song title with no other identifying information (you see a song called "Crazy", maybe it's by Ted Mulry Gang, maybe it's by Icehouse, maybe it's by Seal, my SD card has all three of these!) -- lots of players also get this wrong

Unknowns:
- Unable to tell if it respects album artist when grouping by album since it seems incapable of any grouping at all

----

UPDATED: So it won't scan if you plug a pre-loaded MicroSD card in, and there's no way in the UI to tell it to do that. BUT, if you load over USB 2.0 with the player as a mass-storage device (I used `rsync`), it will scan the internal storage when it boots up.

HOWEVER, scrolling through all songs, it just shows the "title" -- if you check the photo, the player shows apparently 7 copies of the "same" song. Only 3 of them are actually the same as each-other:

- Aerosmith "Crazy"
- Icehouse "Crazy" (which appears 3 times, as the "Man Of Colours" album has the normal album version plus two extended remixes)
- Seal "Crazy"
- Ted Mulry Gang "Crazy"
- Mud "Crazy"

With the exception of the remixes of Icehouse's "Crazy", these songs are not remotely alike, and should be distinguishable when browsing. The manufacturer should amend the firmware to display something along the lines of ${TITLE} - ${ARTIST} - ${ALBUM} ${DISCNUMBER}/${TRACK}… then it'd be possible to fully differentiate these.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Navigation works okay for big collection… metadata support is lacking
Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2023
So, firstly my situation: i have a big music collection (8855 songs) in Ogg/Vorbis format that is ~28GiB in size. My previous player (an 8GB AGPTek) even with the aide of a 32GiB MicroSD card couldn't manage the shear number of files… that plus a nearly dead battery meant it was time for a new one. (if it weren't for its file limit, I'd have just replaced the battery.)

The files in my collection are tagged with the usual metadata (album, artist, title, album artist, track number) as well as embedded album artwork (embedded JPEG).

Unit I received had v2.2 firmware loaded. Product of China (isn't everything these days?). Identifies itself as follows when plugged into USB:
[26594.792553] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[26594.920136] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=c502, idProduct=0023, bcdDevice=ff.ff
[26594.920143] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=5, Product=6, SerialNumber=7
[26594.920145] usb 2-2: Product: SURFANS
[26594.920146] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SURFANS
[26594.920148] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SURFANS

Pros:
- Getting the thing loaded with music is pretty simple, it appears as a USB storage device and you can mount that and copy the files across at USB 2.0 speeds.
- Supplied 32GiB MicroSD card (ADATA brand) write speeds are decent. (Tested with laptop built-in SD interface.)
- User interface is easy enough to navigate, not too many surprises. On first power-on it will ask for UI language, and there's a wide selection there.
- As advertised, it can manage the full collection I have (advertised limit is 14000)
- Seems to respect directory structure (I have files organised album artist/album title/track artist - title.ogg)
- Bluetooth capability is a nice touch, paired pretty easy with a JBL Charge speaker
- UTF8 encoding of file names works
- Can play music off a conventional USB mass storage device via USB OTG cable (I used one from a Raspberry Pi Zero kit, 512GB USB stick was formatted FAT32)
- Can display cover art embedded in FLAC recordings (but seemingly little other metadata)

Cons:
- For Ogg/Vorbis at least, it seems to support very little metadata, in particular, it can't seem to group by artist or album at all, and no cover art displays
- For FLAC, cover art displays, but again, seemingly no support for other metadata
- Category shows 0 artists, 0 songs, 0 albums, 0 genres (there are 476 albums on the MicroSD card), seems incapable of "scanning" the MicroSD card or USB mass storage device to find them
- "Random" seems to be within tracks of a single directory, there doesn't seem to be a way to "random play" all files on the SD card
- Handbook makes reference to features that don't seem to exist (e.g. "All songs" interface)
- Recent played songs only shows the song title with no other identifying information (you see a song called "Crazy", maybe it's by Ted Mulry Gang, maybe it's by Icehouse, maybe it's by Seal, my SD card has all three of these!) -- lots of players also get this wrong

Unknowns:
- Unable to tell if it respects album artist when grouping by album since it seems incapable of any grouping at all

----

UPDATED: So it won't scan if you plug a pre-loaded MicroSD card in, and there's no way in the UI to tell it to do that. BUT, if you load over USB 2.0 with the player as a mass-storage device (I used `rsync`), it will scan the internal storage when it boots up.

HOWEVER, scrolling through all songs, it just shows the "title" -- if you check the photo, the player shows apparently 7 copies of the "same" song. Only 3 of them are actually the same as each-other:

- Aerosmith "Crazy"
- Icehouse "Crazy" (which appears 3 times, as the "Man Of Colours" album has the normal album version plus two extended remixes)
- Seal "Crazy"
- Ted Mulry Gang "Crazy"
- Mud "Crazy"

With the exception of the remixes of Icehouse's "Crazy", these songs are not remotely alike, and should be distinguishable when browsing. The manufacturer should amend the firmware to display something along the lines of ${TITLE} - ${ARTIST} - ${ALBUM} ${DISCNUMBER}/${TRACK}… then it'd be possible to fully differentiate these.
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Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2024
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Threw a 256GB sdcard in it. Works well, sounds good. It talks to fosi BT amps too. No mucking around with 3rd party software or iTunes. Yay. :-).

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F. M. David
4.0 out of 5 stars Great but.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2023
Colour: Grayish BlackVerified Purchase
Great product. The only problem the player does not recognise any Bluetooth device. Cannot use any Bluetooth headphones or earphones.
Denis
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo lettore
Reviewed in Italy on 1 September 2020
Colour: Grayish BlackVerified Purchase
Acquistato 5 mesi fa arrivato puntuale ed integro subito il lettore appare ben costruito e solido con estetica accattivante e menù semplici . il suono e' ottimo , decade un po' con le cuffie wireless ma e' sempre piu' che buono, le uniche critiche per i caratteri sul display un po' piccoli e per il fatto che tutti i tasti quando il lettore va in standby durante la riproduzione vengono disattivati, costringendomi ogni volta ad attivare il lettore con il pulsante on/off per alzare il volume o per fare altre operazioni.
Altra cosa che mi ha incuriosito e' il fatto che al momento del mio acquisto questo lettore aveva un marchio differente mentre adesso si chiama surfans...
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Lothar S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr hochwertiges Gerät mit hervorragendem Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
Reviewed in Germany on 4 April 2020
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Vorweg: der iRULU F20 ist mein erster und einziger High-Res-Player, ich habe also keinen Vergleich zu anderen Geräten. Weder, was die Klangqualität noch Verarbeitung und Benutzung angeht.
Ich verwende das Gerät mit einem Sennheiser Momentum-Kopfhörer, der mit Oehlbach XXL i-jack 25 Kopfhörerkabel (2,5 auf 3,5 mm-Klinke) angeschlossen ist.
Ebenfalls gleich vorweg: meine Erwartungen sind bei weitem übertroffen worden.

Verarbeitung und Haptik:
das Gerät macht einen wertigen und robusten Eindruck. Das Gehäuse ist aus Metall. Alle Knöpfe lassen sich präzise bedienen, der Druckpunkt ist klar definiert, straff und schließt eine versehentliche Bedienung aus. Das Scroll-Rad lässt sich ebenfalls gut und einhändig bedienen, ich habe keinerlei Schwierigkeiten damit; im Gegenteil, es ist für ein Gerät dieser Größe ein ideales Bedieninstrument.
Das Display hat einen guten Kontrast und eine angenehme Farbdarstellung, es ist in der Helligkeit regelbar. Klar ist, dass Songtitel und -texte auf einem 2,0‘‘-Bildschirm klein dargestellt werden, lange Texte werden jedoch als Laufschrift von rechts nach links wiedergegeben. Gut gelöst, finde ich.

Klang:
haut mich vom Hocker. Als ich dieses kleine Gerät zum ersten Mal in der Hand hatte, hätte ich nicht erwartet, welche Qualität hier rauskommt.
Ich habe mir hochaufgelöste Musiktitel per Download gekauft (WAV-Format, je Album ca. 1,8 GByte). Außerdem einige meiner Lieblings-CD`s gerippt (FLAC) und auf die Speicherkarte kopiert. Nach meinem Eindruck wird Musik absolut realistisch und „naturgetreu“ wiedergegeben, so wie sie aufgenommen wurde. In Verbindung mit dem beschriebenen Kopfhörer macht der iRULU F20 eine große räumliche Bühne auf, alle Instrumente sind klar ortbar, hinzu kommt eine beeindruckende Dynamik. Einfach klasse. Den integrierten Equalizer habe ich noch nicht angefasst, weil er für meine Begriffe gar nicht benötigt wird - ich wüsste nicht was ich damit verbessern sollte.
Der iRULU F20 verfügt über einen sehr hochwertigen AUX-Ausgang, so dass er auch als Abspielgerät für Audioanlagen genutzt werden kann. Im direkten Vergleich (iRULU mit gerippten CD's angeschlossen und gleichzeitig die entsprechende CD im CD-Player) ist auch auf sehr guten Anlagen kein Unterschied zum erheblich teureren CD-Player hörbar. Verblüffend.

Hinweis:
im Lieferumfang war bei mir eine 32 GByte Speicherkarte. Die ist aber m.E. zu langsam. Für MP3-Dateien wird es sicher gehen, bei großen WAV-Dateien gibt es gelegentlich Aussetzer. Ich bin deshalb auf eine SanDisk Extreme-Karte umgestiegen, damit hatte ich bisher keine Probleme.

Fazit:
Mich überzeugt der iRULU F20 auf ganzer Linie. Wenn man dann noch den Preis berücksichtigt, kommt nur eine Maximalwertung in Frage. Wer gern intensiv und konzentriert Musik hört und eine herausragende Tonqualität erwartet, wird von diesem Gerät positiv überrascht sein und sehr viel Freude damit haben.
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5.0 out of 5 stars MP3プレーヤーの最高峰
Reviewed in Japan on 5 December 2022
Colour: Grayish BlackVerified Purchase
バッテリーの持続時間やSDカードによる楽曲の再生可能数など、安物のMP3プレーヤーとは大違いで大満足です。
Mr. Nicholas Wright
3.0 out of 5 stars Great sound, but dreadful interface.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2020
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I am not at all impressed with this player.
Its very expensive, for what it offers, and the sound IS good, but the interface is poorly thought out and implemented.

By far the most niggling and annoying aspect with this player (to me) is that its controls do not work at all.
i.e. the play/pause, jog forward or back, (even the volume controls), unless you FIRST wake the unit up by clicking the top button. They only work if the display is lit and they don`t do anything after the display times out,... until you press the top button again to wake the unit up. This is inconvenient and a real pain, especially where the volume is concerned.
The units display is very small, and a major issue with it is the size of the actual Menu portion of the screen, (when the menu button is pressed, - see photo`s). You need VERY good eyes to actually read what it says.
Another thing that suprised me was that there does not seem to be any "internal" memory in the device, (i.e. if there is no MicroSD card installed, then the unit has NO memory). So its limited to the SDcards size.
One more niggle- was that I could not get the unit to work as a DAC. The driver that is supplied (on the supplied MicroSDcard) will not install in windows 10, the setup constantly asks you to plug the unit in, but does not recognise it when it IS plugged in. This occurs both in USB mode and when the DAC mode is enabled in its settings.
I tried locating an updated driver but came up against a brick wall because my browser flagged the irulu.com site as being a security risk. -Its using a security certificate for a different site, (myshopify.com), which is enough to ensure that I`ll never go there.
I guess I can live without the DAC functionality, but its still disappointing not being able to use it.
Lastly...
re:- The irulu F20 Hiby Link/App.
Forget it, it just doesn`t work. Primarily you have to wade through the most ridiculous set of operating instructions..
(found in a docx file with the apk on the MicroSDCard). e.g. To turn the link on in the player, you have to:-

"1) Enter system settings > About the player> About
Then press the play button 8 times continuously, (iRULU LOGO will appear) and the display will show "Hiby link turn on"
2) Enter player system settings> Bluetooth on> Hiby link turns on".
(From the instructions accompanying the app).

So... you have to navigate to an obscure nested folder to find the (hidden) link, then press it EIGHT times just to turn it on?
Why for heavens sake??? whats wrong with just having an on/off link in the settings?

Thats not the end of it either, - nowhere will you find ANY instructions on how to link the app and actually use it.
I could not work out how to link the device, or use the app unless you are prepared to risk browsing the flagged irulu site.

And thats whats fundamentally wrong with this device.. despite it having a decent quality of construction, and a good sound, its near impossible to use most of its functionality, because of the dreadful lack of instructions and the very unintuitive interface. You are effectively limited to only the most basic play & listen functions.
For £115 it should be much, MUCH better than this.
On the plus side.. The sound is excellent, its clean, noiseless, and FLAC files sound like FLAC files SHOULD sound like...
It also plays MP3 files and OGG & WAV files very well. The construction is very solid, and its extremely portable.
(Can`t say I was too impressed with its equaliser though, the presets are very bland...).
The bluetooth seems to work although I have not tested the OTG functions.

The best thing I can say for prospective buyers, is that if you can live with the things I`ve pointed out, (its faults and high price), then it IS a good sounding player and should last you well.

Unfortunately, myself...I can`t live with them.
I intend to return mine and buy something more user friendly.
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Mr. Nicholas Wright
3.0 out of 5 stars Great sound, but dreadful interface.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2020
I am not at all impressed with this player.
Its very expensive, for what it offers, and the sound IS good, but the interface is poorly thought out and implemented.

By far the most niggling and annoying aspect with this player (to me) is that its controls do not work at all.
i.e. the play/pause, jog forward or back, (even the volume controls), unless you FIRST wake the unit up by clicking the top button. They only work if the display is lit and they don`t do anything after the display times out,... until you press the top button again to wake the unit up. This is inconvenient and a real pain, especially where the volume is concerned.
The units display is very small, and a major issue with it is the size of the actual Menu portion of the screen, (when the menu button is pressed, - see photo`s). You need VERY good eyes to actually read what it says.
Another thing that suprised me was that there does not seem to be any "internal" memory in the device, (i.e. if there is no MicroSD card installed, then the unit has NO memory). So its limited to the SDcards size.
One more niggle- was that I could not get the unit to work as a DAC. The driver that is supplied (on the supplied MicroSDcard) will not install in windows 10, the setup constantly asks you to plug the unit in, but does not recognise it when it IS plugged in. This occurs both in USB mode and when the DAC mode is enabled in its settings.
I tried locating an updated driver but came up against a brick wall because my browser flagged the irulu.com site as being a security risk. -Its using a security certificate for a different site, (myshopify.com), which is enough to ensure that I`ll never go there.
I guess I can live without the DAC functionality, but its still disappointing not being able to use it.
Lastly...
re:- The irulu F20 Hiby Link/App.
Forget it, it just doesn`t work. Primarily you have to wade through the most ridiculous set of operating instructions..
(found in a docx file with the apk on the MicroSDCard). e.g. To turn the link on in the player, you have to:-

"1) Enter system settings > About the player> About
Then press the play button 8 times continuously, (iRULU LOGO will appear) and the display will show "Hiby link turn on"
2) Enter player system settings> Bluetooth on> Hiby link turns on".
(From the instructions accompanying the app).

So... you have to navigate to an obscure nested folder to find the (hidden) link, then press it EIGHT times just to turn it on?
Why for heavens sake??? whats wrong with just having an on/off link in the settings?

Thats not the end of it either, - nowhere will you find ANY instructions on how to link the app and actually use it.
I could not work out how to link the device, or use the app unless you are prepared to risk browsing the flagged irulu site.

And thats whats fundamentally wrong with this device.. despite it having a decent quality of construction, and a good sound, its near impossible to use most of its functionality, because of the dreadful lack of instructions and the very unintuitive interface. You are effectively limited to only the most basic play & listen functions.
For £115 it should be much, MUCH better than this.
On the plus side.. The sound is excellent, its clean, noiseless, and FLAC files sound like FLAC files SHOULD sound like...
It also plays MP3 files and OGG & WAV files very well. The construction is very solid, and its extremely portable.
(Can`t say I was too impressed with its equaliser though, the presets are very bland...).
The bluetooth seems to work although I have not tested the OTG functions.

The best thing I can say for prospective buyers, is that if you can live with the things I`ve pointed out, (its faults and high price), then it IS a good sounding player and should last you well.

Unfortunately, myself...I can`t live with them.
I intend to return mine and buy something more user friendly.
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