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- Big Hard Drive Capacity Storage
- Audiophile quality with files like FLAC
- Simple drag & drop operation
- 4.3" video touch screen
- 103 hours music playback battery life
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Experience an array of multimedia on large-capacity MP3 Cowon X7. The vertically oriented X7 comes with a 4.3" wide touchscreen for easy access as well as emotive UIs and amazing playback time. From various music album, pictures filled with fond memories, lengthy TV series to a large volume of Internet lectures, one X7 can handle them all.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
If you want something which just looks cool, buy an iPod. If you want truly awesome, outstanding sound quality, buy a Cowon X7. I bought this because my iPod was getting on my nerves (volume limiter, poor sound quality), and I don't regret it at all. The controls take a bit of getting used to, but play around with it for a couple of hours and it's fairly straightforward really!
The real selling point is the sound quality, though: it makes listening to music a real pleasure, and you'll hear things you never even knew existed in songs you've listened to loads of times before. With 120 or 160 Gb of storage, you can afford to rip MP3s at 320kb for added clarity too. And, although you get a CD with the player, you don't actually need any special software to transfer music files, you can do it via RealPlayer, Winamp or simply drag'n'drop with windows explorer.
Forget your iPods; get one of these. I can't recommend it highly enough.
The real selling point is the sound quality, though: it makes listening to music a real pleasure, and you'll hear things you never even knew existed in songs you've listened to loads of times before. With 120 or 160 Gb of storage, you can afford to rip MP3s at 320kb for added clarity too. And, although you get a CD with the player, you don't actually need any special software to transfer music files, you can do it via RealPlayer, Winamp or simply drag'n'drop with windows explorer.
Forget your iPods; get one of these. I can't recommend it highly enough.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I bought this player basically because I have become sick of itunes and the lack of flexiblity my ipod touch then ipod classic gave me in organising my ever increasing music library, lack of music file formats, sound reproduction etc. I also wanted a player with better sound quality. The X7 is a large device, but still fits in the pocket, it feels solid in the hand, in the box you get a seperate charger, proprietory usb cable, lanyard, software disc. The device has an external speaker, external volume, power and a single menu button. There are two views to choose from when using the device, their is one with widgets and one with a list view which I currently use. If you only have used itunes to organise your music this will be a wake up call of sorts but personally I have always kept my original folders organised a certain way and I have mirrored that exact file structure on the X7 by dragging and dropping the files onto the device. Their are plenty of media players you can download to help with organising your library, mediamonkey, winamp,windows media player and the included jetaudio software. You cannot make on the fly playlists apart from using the favorites option, you can create them using jetaudio (which gives no instructions how to in the user guide) I found a step by step guide to creating playlists on the X7 at (...)
The UI is not intuitive but I quickly got the hang of it, you can view your files in album, artist genre etc and their is a folder view. Album art is supported but appears on the device enlarged, personally I like how it looks but i have read reviews were some dont like it. The strongest selling point of this device is the sound and the multitude of options to sdjust the sound to your taste, this is a big big plus!!
I haven't really viewed much video on the device but the screen is clear and bright with excellent viewing angles not the highest screen resolution out there but viewing is fine, the touch panal is resisitive which means its activated by preassure and it is suprisingly responsive. Jumping around menus is snappy with no lag.
In short if you are and audiophile and need over 64Gb of space what are you waiting for?!
Update: The best media software to use is mediamonkey which is where i create playlists. Their are simple instructions how to do this on various forums. Again it is not as simple as itunes but personally its an inconvenience I can live with.
The UI is not intuitive but I quickly got the hang of it, you can view your files in album, artist genre etc and their is a folder view. Album art is supported but appears on the device enlarged, personally I like how it looks but i have read reviews were some dont like it. The strongest selling point of this device is the sound and the multitude of options to sdjust the sound to your taste, this is a big big plus!!
I haven't really viewed much video on the device but the screen is clear and bright with excellent viewing angles not the highest screen resolution out there but viewing is fine, the touch panal is resisitive which means its activated by preassure and it is suprisingly responsive. Jumping around menus is snappy with no lag.
In short if you are and audiophile and need over 64Gb of space what are you waiting for?!
Update: The best media software to use is mediamonkey which is where i create playlists. Their are simple instructions how to do this on various forums. Again it is not as simple as itunes but personally its an inconvenience I can live with.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Having reviewed the 160GB version which I have, I thought it may be a good idea to post the same review for the 120GB version as many buyers would look at this as the preferred buying option.
I had checked out all the available pictures but I still wasn't prepared for the size of this little beast. A chunky unit indeed but it is the price we have to pay for a screen on which videos are watchable. It would have been a perfect screen to have wifi but there is no such thing on this. A music, video and picture player in essence.
At 120GB and another 1.5GB on a flash drive within, this player is for the serious media collector or people who like their music encoded at 320 for Mp3 or Flac. Considering how legendary the sound quality is of the Cowon, it would be a shame to encode MP3s at less than 320 to play on this. Having played around with both S9 and J3, I can say that sound quality on this matches both of those.
Video resolution 480x272 is not great but okay and as I said earlier, watching videos on this is a pleasure because of screen size. Photos appear to take a bit of time to load and shift but again quite adequate. It is a surprise though that Cowon have released one with such low resolution having had the awesome amoled screen on the S9 and J3.
I know Cowon are very good with their firmware upgrades and I fear this needs quite a few. The touchscreen can at times be a bit unresponsive and although it doesn't need much pressure on the screen, at times I have had to press several times before it responded. The Bluetooth is good and has a good range without breaking up as was the case with the Cowon S9. Scanning for Bluetooth speakers and then pairing is straightforward and quick. Volume control is on two buttons on the left and respond well. The X7 has its own speakers and comes out with pretty decent volume.
There are rumours going round that this unit has problems transferring a large amount of files with Macs but has worked very well with a PC. However it did take about 5 hours to transfer 100GB of data. Once done, it shouldn't need to be done again.
A big problem appears on album art. It doesn't seem to resize the picture to fit within the screen. I wonder if this can be fixed by Cowon.
It has the usual FM radio, recorder, calculator, flash, notepad and stopwatch. None of them all that useful but these things seem to come as standard.
The deal breaker is the claimed 103 hours of music it plays on one full charge. Pretty sure this was calculated on Mp3s at 128 but even three quarters of that would be phenomenal. It claims 11 hours of continuous video.
Unusually these days, the X7 comes with its own mains charger and is supposed to be fully charged in 2 to 3 hours which isn't bad at all.
The 160GB version is also available. The spec is the same.
The manual is available on Cowon's website.
I had checked out all the available pictures but I still wasn't prepared for the size of this little beast. A chunky unit indeed but it is the price we have to pay for a screen on which videos are watchable. It would have been a perfect screen to have wifi but there is no such thing on this. A music, video and picture player in essence.
At 120GB and another 1.5GB on a flash drive within, this player is for the serious media collector or people who like their music encoded at 320 for Mp3 or Flac. Considering how legendary the sound quality is of the Cowon, it would be a shame to encode MP3s at less than 320 to play on this. Having played around with both S9 and J3, I can say that sound quality on this matches both of those.
Video resolution 480x272 is not great but okay and as I said earlier, watching videos on this is a pleasure because of screen size. Photos appear to take a bit of time to load and shift but again quite adequate. It is a surprise though that Cowon have released one with such low resolution having had the awesome amoled screen on the S9 and J3.
I know Cowon are very good with their firmware upgrades and I fear this needs quite a few. The touchscreen can at times be a bit unresponsive and although it doesn't need much pressure on the screen, at times I have had to press several times before it responded. The Bluetooth is good and has a good range without breaking up as was the case with the Cowon S9. Scanning for Bluetooth speakers and then pairing is straightforward and quick. Volume control is on two buttons on the left and respond well. The X7 has its own speakers and comes out with pretty decent volume.
There are rumours going round that this unit has problems transferring a large amount of files with Macs but has worked very well with a PC. However it did take about 5 hours to transfer 100GB of data. Once done, it shouldn't need to be done again.
A big problem appears on album art. It doesn't seem to resize the picture to fit within the screen. I wonder if this can be fixed by Cowon.
It has the usual FM radio, recorder, calculator, flash, notepad and stopwatch. None of them all that useful but these things seem to come as standard.
The deal breaker is the claimed 103 hours of music it plays on one full charge. Pretty sure this was calculated on Mp3s at 128 but even three quarters of that would be phenomenal. It claims 11 hours of continuous video.
Unusually these days, the X7 comes with its own mains charger and is supposed to be fully charged in 2 to 3 hours which isn't bad at all.
The 160GB version is also available. The spec is the same.
The manual is available on Cowon's website.
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