[vampire666]

Hi there!
Some years ago I lost my music player companion: the Cowon D2 which I enjoyed very much.
I still haven't replaced it with a new player, but the wait is over since now I have some money to spend.

Do any of you know a player witch would be considered an upgrade from the D2 or at least something similar? I very much liked the sound of the Cowon (after some tweaking with it's effects and EQ).
I was wondering if I should just buy a smart-phone (something like a Xiaomi, Zoppo, Jiayu, Elephone, ecc, ecc) and use that in conjunction with a COZOY Astrapi or Fiio E17k or E18.
I was also looking at the FiiO X3 but there's just something that doesn't convince me, I don't know what, maybe the control wheel (always hated ipod's wheel controls), maybe it's interface...I don't know.
 
Any suggestions?
Thank you

 

[JK1]

The Fiio players have only around 11 hours or so of battery life. The main reason I would ever consider buying a Cowon player is for the very long battery life.some of them have. The Cowon M2 is listed as having up to 90 hours of battery life, and has a card slot. It is $162. If it was under $100 I would have probably bought it. I like using Rockboxed Sandisk Clip+ and Clip Zip as they are tiny, inexpensive, sound very nice, and have a card slot. The downside to them is only around 15 hours of battery life. Aside from the price, I also don't like the semi-proprietary connector Cowon uses(I'm told it is a standard in Korea). Then there is the Cowon Plenue P1 at $900 and up. Imo way too expensive! The Plenue also gets less than 9 hours of battery life!
 
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1084424-REG/cowon_m2_32bl_m2_mp3_player_32gb.html

 

[vampire666]

Thank you very much for the reply!
 
I wasn't aware of the Cowon M2 but that looks just like a new version of the Cowon D2...which is at the same time a bad and good thing.
The bad is that it still have outdated resistive screen, low resolution  screen, somewhat bulky, I immagine it inherits the file limit, the good is the increadible battery life and it's sound quality (love BBE).
 
The plenue is well beyond my budjet.
 
Any other suggestions?

 

[JK1]

Many of the new players are like the fiio X1 or even more expensive versions of it, with from 9 to 11 hours of battery life. There is the Cowon X9 with 110 hour battery life!
it is around $165(white) or $180(black) . I think it might be discontinued, but still seems to be available.Then there are some players with 32GB but no card slot like the Cowon Iaudio 9+ for around $133 which has only around 29 hours of battery life. sony has a player with a card slot and around 50 hour battery life for MP3, however it is around $300 and has 64GB built in.
 
http://www.amazon.com/COWON-X9-MP3-FM-player/dp/B00963DPUY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1434480393&sr=8-4&keywords=Cowon
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Walkman-NWZA17SLV-Hi-Res-Digital/dp/B00OCJRX8C/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1434480838&sr=8-5&keywords=Sony+mp3