HIFI WALKER H2 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.2, Lossless DSD FLAC Player, Digital Audio Player Hi Res Portable Music DAP Player with 64GB Micro SD Card, Support Up to 512GB

So far, I am enjoying the Hi-Fi Walker H2. I bought it prior to Christmas 2022 to replace my previous player which only held a battery charge for about 2 hours. I have not really had a full duration test with the Walker H2 yet to see just how long the battery lasts, but I can say that it lasted at least 8 hours on a recent long-distance drive playing continuous music! The Walker H2's build is solid. The metal shell makes me confident it will not break if accidentally dropped. One drawback of this player is that the case is sealed, meaning the battery is unable to be changed out. Hopefully the battery will provide many years of service. I appreciate the fact that it accepts up to a 256GB Micro SD card. I have a 128GB in it now (the H2 came packaged with a 32GB Micro SD) from my previous player. I have tons of music on it and have so far come nowhere near filling it up. If you are inserting a new Micro SD card 128GB or above, you may need to first re-format it to the FAT32 file system if not already formatted as FAT32. The Walker uses the FAT32 file system to read/write from/to the Micro SD. Be aware that when reformatting, any existing data on the card will be erased. The controls are easy to learn and use, and the color display is legible. and can be set to one of three styles. One hiccup I encountered early on was navigating the custom EQ settings. The labels for the frequency bands are quite small and I initially had trouble noticing which one was highlighted for adjustment. You basically have to scroll through the bands to the one you want to adjust, select it, adjust it, then click out of it to continue scrolling through the bands. Easy after you do it once. After you set the custom EQ so suit you, you shouldn't have to set it again. There are also 9 other pre-set EQ settings you can try including 'No EQ'. One thing about the play mode of this player that I would change if I could is that you can't just play one album and have it stop after the last track of the album (or the last track in the album's folder). On "Order" (continuous) mode, it moves on to play the next song/album on the list until you stop it or select another track or album. In a way this was good at Christmas, as it just plowed through all the albums in my Christmas folder from A to Z without my intervention. I have not yet loaded any playlists (*.m3U) yet. I'll have to load an album as a playlist and see if it stops playing at the end of the list. The other playback options are single track repeat, repeat all (entire library/memory card), and random. The random playback appears to be a true random which excites me as I am now able to load up my 70's & 80's favorites folders (500+ tracks each) and enjoy a different random playback each time. My previous player's ramdom mode played the same "random" sequence of tracks every time. Loading the tracks to the player's SD card was very easy, but I highly recommend using MP3/ID3 tag info so you can easily navigate through your music (right click on an MP3 file, select 'Properties', then click the 'Details' tab). It can take a little administrative maintenance up front if your music tracks do not come with the tag info filled out, or if you like your artist's names to appear with last name first, or the "The" in a band's name removed or switched to the end of the name (i.e., "Rolling Stones, The") like I like them so you don't have to scroll through a list of bands labeled "The xxx". Anyway, you can just connect your player up to your computer via the included USB cable, turn the player on, and dump all your music files to the SD card once it is detected by your computer. I have not yet tried the bluetooth connectivity feature. Some other features users may appreciate is that the player accepts and displays lyrics files (*.lrc), and displays album art (if contained in the music file). The display can also be set to several different European & Asian languages. Two physical items lacking with this player are a wrist strap, though there is a loop built in to hook one on to. Also, there are no ear buds included, though they would probably be very basic (aka cheap) and you, as I, would use our own devices anyway. All in all, a solid device with just a few small but manageable cons thus far.

With a few tweaks, this could be the perfect price/performance ratio in a lossless portable audio player. The Good: For a device this inexpensive, it has a much better than average sounding DAC handling the decoding. It is good enough that the quality of the cables you use will actually be a factor in the sound quality. Use high-quality cables if you plan to connect this unit to an amplifier. Also, use a clean amplifier with low distortion levels and a decent reserve of power for transients. This player can push the full dynamic range of your recordings to the amp. If you're looking for a good, yet relatively inexpensive micro-amp, this pairs really well with an SMSL AD18 for driving a good set of speakers. It also successfully connects to that amp using Bluetooth, but I recommend high-quality direct cabling if possible. Even with the advances in Bluetooth recently, I still find the quality of the output superior when directly cabled. It is also nice to have decent navigation controls and a built-in display on such an inexpensive, yet high-quality music player. The built-in lithium-ion battery with a standard USB charger makes it easy to keep this player charged. The standard USB cable means it can be charged by all those high-capacity rechargeable portable battery packs that are commonly used by campers, hikers, or anyone else who hates being tethered to a computer or AC outlet. The Bad: The display is tiny. It is difficult to read the text for anyone with less than perfect vision. They allow you to choose to display album art, but they only display it as a microscopic icon in the upper right corner of the already too tiny playback screen. Despite the album artwork being so small, the rest of the display during playback is mostly wasted by displaying "wallpaper" rather than useful information large enough to actually read. I would have been much happier to have a larger version of the album art or a song list displayed in that huge space. Then again, you won't want the display powered on most of the time anyway, because it drops the battery life significantly. Then there is the Bluetooth. It is extremely flaky to pair with various devices. For example, I own two Denon receivers which were made and purchased within a couple months of one another. One of them will pair with this player. The other will not. I tried everything I could think of to increase the likelihood that it would pair, going so far as to pull out my entertainment furniture and climbing behind it to hold the device 12 inches from the antenna. I also discovered that it would only pair with one of my four micro-amps which have Bluetooth interfaces. That amp was the SMSL AD18 I mentioned earlier. Overall, I really like the high-quality output of this budget-friendly lossless audio player. I also like the compact size and the music library navigation features. If they could improve the display and fix the Bluetooth to work with more devices, this would be the perfect first player to purchase for lossless music playback. As it exists now, it is still a good value with a couple of annoyances which may or may not matter to you. Those annoyances cost this device a star in my review, but many would likely overlook the shortcomings because of the price/performance ratio. The player does sound great, after all. That may well be enough for most people. One Tip: When you add a really high capacity microSD card to this device, it may have trouble using it. I used a 256GB card and what I discovered was that I needed to connect the music player to my PC in "USB mode" not "PC DAC mode." Once connected, I could access the memory card inside the device just like any other thumb drive. I used this configuration to format the memory card while it was inside the device. This was insanely slow, so I suggest running it overnight while you sleep. Once completed, I have had zero problems reading any files copied to the device. I actually used the same method to copy the files, which again, was crazy slow. But since you only do it once, I figured having the same device write the files which was going to be reading the files would be the best way to ensure trouble-free usage. So far, I've been right. UPDATE: I've been using this player a lot since purchasing it. At this point, I have even used it with headphones. (I only sent the output through amps before that) I'm still blown away by the sound quality coming out of this unit. Using the amazing TI PCM5102 Burr-Brown DAC, the sound quality compares favorably to many of the $600+ units those big-name companies are selling, but at a fraction of the cost. Even when listening to music using my admittedly mediocre earbuds, the sound quality remained amazingly good. Also, since my original review, I have found a few more devices which pair with the player, but most still don't. Plus, I discovered the large empty space on the display will display song lyrics if you have copied lyric files into the folders where each individual album is stored. The few annoyances I noted originally remain, so so there is no change in my 4 star rating. If fractional stars were allowed, I might give it a 4.5 just for the amazing sound quality at this price point.

Estaba buscando un reproductor de música ya que no quería traer musica en mi cel porque me gusta escuchar musica en formato WAV y FLAC el cual llenaba la memoria de éste. Otra característica que necesitaba era que el reproductor no tuviera pantalla touch. Quería lo mas analógo posible y haciendo una investigación vi bastante recomendado este HiFi Walker H2. En mi experiencia en estos meses de uso, el HiFi Walker ha funcionado como lo esperado. Obviamente si quieres escuchar audio con calidad, el aparato por si solo no lo hará. Necesitas audio en formato lossless y un par de audifonos o bocinas de alta definición. En mi caso tengo musica en formato WAV y FLAC, escucho a través de unos IEMs y se escucha bastante bien. El HiFi Walker incluia una tarjeta de 64GB pero yo le puse una nueva de 256GB. Los botones se sienten analogos, justo lo que quería y la pantalla es minimalista y no te distrae. El HiFi Walker solo reproduce musica lo cual es lo que yo buscaba. Nada de apps, ni internet, ni fotos, ni videos. Un reproductor de música que solo haga eso. Tiene bluetooth y funciona bien. No soy fan de escuchar audio con audifonos bluetooth (al menos no cuando realmente quiero escuchar en alta definición), pero la función ahi está.

Tenía muchas ganas de un reproductor de música flac que tuviera un mínimo de calidad, así que un amigo me recomendó éste y desde luego no le puedo estar mas agradecido. La presentación es muy buena, viniendo perfectamente protegido el dispositivo en una plancha de espuma, junto con unos auriculares, un cable de carga y varios juegos de almohadillas para adaptar los auriculares a nuestros oídos. La primera impresión es tremenda, el reproductor tiene un tamaño pequeño, pero tiene un peso considerable lo que siempre me da buena sensación, la carcasa es metálica, con la parte trasera en plástico brillante al estilo cristal.En al parte superior está el botón de encendido, en el lateral derecho los botones del volumen y la ranura para la tarjeta Micro SD, que incluye una de 16GB, en la parte inferior está el conector de auriculares, el de carga o conexión a PC, la salida de línea y una ranura para adaptar una correa. Por último en el frontal tenemos la pantalla lcd, que puede parecer pequeña, pero se ve estupendamente y todos los botones de control, llamando la atención el circulo de control que recuerda a los reproductores de una época pasada. Como recomendación y para disfrutar todo lo posible del reproductor, lo mejor es grabarla en calidad FLAC, de esa manera os aseguro que se disfruta muchísimo más la música y eso lo he descubierto con éste reproductor. Los auriculares que vienen son de muy buena calidad, teniendo la caja metálica y el cable trenzado, consiguiendo muy buena línea de sonido, me han sorprendido muchísimo la verdad, nada que ver con los auriculares que he tenido hasta ahora. La batería no puedo confirmar la duración, pero teniendo desactivado el bluetooth, todavía no he sido capaz de agotarla, si bien cada vez que lo conecto al pc para traspasar música también carga el dispositivo. Es interesante el hecho de que también se puedan conectar cascos por bluetooth y el funcionamiento es muy fácil ya que basta con activar el BT y nos aparece la opción de buscar dispositivos cercanos para vincularlos, si bien yo por calidad, recomiendo el uso con auriculares por cable, la diferencia es enorme. El uso es muy sencillo e intuitivo, y en caso de tener alguna duda el manual es de fácil compresión y te resuelve cualquier duda que te pueda surgir. La verdad es que creo que es la compra con la que estoy disfrutando mas en mucho tiempo.

Very easy to get started with, just add songs to the root of the sd card. Bluetooth works good, the only thing I can complain about is that changing song directly on my bluetooth headphones doesn't seem to work unless the screen is on. Sometimes I can change the song one time but that's it. Other than that it's great, highly recommended!

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

Very good