[Hachiko270296]

It's still a decent device. Don't see why it shouldn't.

 

[Parker75]

I think that for that there's the X3 or X5, this is a cheap device intended for the gym or when you don't wan't to carry your full portable setup around, like when jogging or walking the dog.

 

[JK1]

  the problem is the amp vs the battery.
 
Cowon use to have a good balance getting 30-40+ hours with a 32mW (16 per channel) output,
 
But if you want a 100+mW output, i suspect that with normal batteries you wont get past 15-20 hours. also considering the size of the device...

I don't want a 100+mw output. I use efficient headphones and earphones.

 

[Fergz]

  I hope Fiio comes out with some players with long battery life(40+ hours) and HD radio. I have been waiting so many years for a player under $100 with HD radio.
 

The only players I have heard of that get 40+ hours are Cowon, and i havent seen any portable HD radios that are anything but HD radio

 

[JamesFiiO]

  The only players I have heard of that get 40+ hours are Cowon, and i havent seen any portable HD radios that are anything but HD radio

 
The next model M5 will carry a bigger battery and bluetooth , I think it is quite easy to get 30+ battery life in M5 cause we can put a bigger battery inside it.

 

[Parker75]

Guys, come on, we have been happy with players that only do mp3 and maybe also flac, but then something new comes from fiio and we are requesting so many things from a $50 player, I see an user wanting 40 hrs, that uses aa batteries but is small, hd radio and rockbox as os, someone else wants coaxial out, also amazing earphones and so on, all for $50, really?

 

[ClieOS]

I have been listened to M3 since yesterday and I am rather surprised how good it is. Now I am not saying it will beat any full sized DAP, but I think it certain is as good, if not the best sounding small form factor DAP I have heard. Giving my iPod nano 7G a (big) run of its money.

 

[Coldheart29]

I have been listened to M3 since yesterday and I am rather surprised how good it is. Now I am not saying it will beat any full sized DAP, but I think it certain is as good, if not the best sounding small form factor DAP I have heard. Giving my iPod nano 7G a (big) run of its money.

Sooo, clip-killer?

 

[Parker75]

If it was the same price it could be a clip killer, but it's msrp is like $15 more, so more like another option? we can have both, most of us have our clips, ipods nanos, classics, touch, fios, phones, no-names, etc, another device and at that price, we can have both, clips and the m3, right?

 

[Coldheart29]

  If it was the same price it could be a clip killer, but it's msrp is like $15 more, so more like another option? we can have both, most of us have our clips, ipods nanos, classics, touch, fios, phones, no-names, etc, another device and at that price, we can have both, clips and the m3, right?

Eh, never had a clip or clip+, and the few new ones still available today are sold for 50 to 80 euros here. That's why i look at this as a clip successor. And hopefully as something that beats it .

 

[ClieOS]

Sooo, clip-killer?

 
 

  If it was the same price it could be a clip killer, but it's msrp is like $15 more, so more like another option? we can have both, most of us have our clips, ipods nanos, classics, touch, fios, phones, no-names, etc, another device and at that price, we can have both, clips and the m3, right?

 
Yep, for $15, Clip+ is hard to beat. But if we ignore the price, I'll say FiiO has successfully create the Clip+ killer.

 

[waynes world]

 
Yep, for $15, Clip+ is hard to beat. But if we ignore the price, I'll say FiiO has successfully create the Clip+ killer.

 
Now if it only had a built on clip! 

 

[Parker75]

Well, let's wait for it... it seems that we call a clip killer every budget player that comes out.

 

[Coldheart29]

  Well, let's wait for it... it seems that we call a clip killer every budget player that comes out.

That's because the clip has been THE budget player, and for quite some time. A shame that the new generations of clips aren't up to snuff

 

[traviscash]

Are the newer Clips that bad? I've only ever owned the first, and was about to drop the dosh for a Clip + until I heard about the M3.