HIFI WALKER H2 MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.2, Hi-Res Digital Audio Player (DAP), Two-Way Bluetooth, 64GB Card, 3.5 mm Line Out, Expandable to 512GB

This little unit is built really solid. The UI is simple and clean, easy to use, best of all, it's physical buttons not touch screen. You won't easily accidentally change anything by touching the screen when you handle it while it's playing. So compact it even fits fine in a shirt pocket. Very good sound from it when listening through decent headphones. Battery life is excellent. Extremely happy with it.

This is the best MP3 player that I have purchased by far. The quality of the sound is astounding, you can clearly hear the different tones in the music! I use wired earbuds as I prefer the uninterrupted sound, so I don’t know anything about the bluetooth. The player is a little on the expensive side, but for the quality it’s worth it. It's very solid build and the buttons have a good feel to them. It has some nice features, especially the scroll wheel function. The functions, as with all things, may take a while to get used to. The equaliser isn’t much good as there’s not much difference in the tonal quality. The custom equaliser is very hard to program, due to the fact that it does not have touchscreen, which makes it a hard slog. You have to individually press the back and forward buttons to move the slider up and down, so it takes a long time to change the settings. I also had to paint the buttons as I couldn’t decipher the symbols on the buttons, it’s much easier for me to navigate now , as the original picture shows. Apart from those small things, it’s a very good player and well worth buying.

All in all, this is an excellent little music player which I've only had 24 hours, but it's been pretty much used constantly. It's not perfect, hence four stars, not five. I won't go into the technical details as there are some far more competent reviews about sound quality, specifications etc. For me, this was a replacement for my wonderful little Sandisk Clip Jam which has just given up the ghost, and is now discontinued. In a sea of what seem to be cheap (and nasty?) players around the £20 - £50 the HiFi Walker is expensive but it's in a different league to all the others. It's very solid, heavy and really well built, the buttons have a good feel to them, and the music quality is pretty awesome. The battery lasts well - on one charge I've been listening to music and talking books for over 14 hours, and the battery level indicator is showing 50% full still. Contrary to some other reviews, mine came with a very concise instruction booklet that is easy to understand and is extremely helpful. Maybe the manufacturer took notice of the previous comments and upped their game. The only negative for me is the user interface, which quite frankly is poor, confusing and not intuitive. That said, everything you could ever want is there, including a sleep timer (frustratingly hidden under 'system settings / display settings / scheduled shutdown'). If you spend some time going through things, the menu starts to make sense, but frankly it should be easier.

I use it in conjunction with a set of Sennheiser HD25 headphones for portable/on-the-go/walking/outside use. The sound quality is truly excellent; suffice to say that it can generally be characterised as neutral, balanced, transparent: i.e. accurate. It fulfils all I would wish for sound quality wise from a portable setup. (My "reference" comparison setup is against a Topping A90 headphone amplifier/D90 DAC + Sennheiser HD800S). It compares very favourably, providing a good chunk of the performance for something in a portable package. In short, the sound is everything you could want for/hope for from a portable and reasonably priced DAP, and could be legitimately described as "audiophile". Because it works as a mass storage device, or you can simply load files directly onto the microSD card, this device works great out of the box with Linux; no fancy drivers required. (I should note I installed Rockbox on the device immediately after getting it (hosted install/dual boot), though the original firmware seems perfectly serviceable/decent. Rockbox enables me to use my 512GB microSD card, whereas the stock firmware is limited to 256GB. Rockbox firmware does seem to have a bug with generating a database, at least with my FLAC collection, however, since I just use the file browser (because all my FLACs are perfectly organised in a <artist>/<album> directory structure), this is of no concern to me)). I haven't tested the Bluetooth or Line Out performance, mainly because I doubt I will ever use this functionality. Listening using only lossless FLAC files (mostly 16bit/44khz), I'm trending toward 10-15 hours battery life. Summary: 1. Audiophile sound quality. 2. High quality output stage with excellent volume adjustability/range. 3. Decent, clear screen. Lock button functionality to stop unwanted button presses. 4. No audio glitches, breaks, or defects (note that I've done nearly all of my listening using Rockbox rather than OF) in use on the move. 5. Fair/reasonable price. 6. Solid build with lovely feel - perfect size and weight for carrying around. 7. Easy loading of music onto memory card/mass storage device, no garbage proprietary software required. 8. Decent, if not exceptional, battery life. Rockbox works very well on it (see caveats above), meaning you could potentially use a gigantic memory card with it if so desired, if you're a geek/power-user. (I'm using a 512GB card.) 9. Included fabric drawstring bag to protect it from scratches is a nice touch. Only costs them a few pennies and means you've got something to protect it right away. Meanwhile there is a metal loop you could affix a lanyard too as well, useful if you're the type of person prone to dropping things!

I bought this as my old iPod Classic has become increasingly temperamental and I read some generally positive reviews. I’ll also make the point that I’m old school in listening to music, usually preferring to play an album all the way through. Firstly, the basics of the HiFi Walker are quite good. Its build seems solid – more so than an iPod – sound quality with decent spec, connected in-ear listeners is up to scratch, the navigation fairly intuitive and it works fine when connected to another device with speakers. Also, its big advantage over an iPod is that you can just connect it to a computer then drag and drop music folders onto the SD card; much better than messing about with iTunes. Also, the ability to take up to 256GB is a big plus if you have a lot of music. But there is a significant fault. The machine has a function to search for music by category, which is meant to react to the metadata on the files – ie genre, artist, album artist, composer – but it doesn’t work. I’ve been in touch with the manufacturer’s customer service team about the problem but they have been unable to resolve it. Even though I’ve ensured the files have the metadata attached – using MP3 Tag software – it fails to read them and shows a line of zeros. The only category that does work is the ‘favourites’, which is created on the device itself. It is possible to get around this if, like me, you tend to take one approach to searching for music, as you can build it into the file structure on the SD card. So I tend to drop albums into a folder for that artist which then goes into another for the relevant genre. But if you want to take different approaches to the search at different times you can’t do so. Also, there’s a quirk that I find irritating, in that once an album is played it quickly moves onto the next track in the file structure, which means another album. Maybe not a big issue, but I like to have a pause once an album is finished (probably because I listen to a lot of classical and jazz). On top of this, it’s not completely clear what some of the settings are meant to do, and the manual doesn’t make it clear for every function. Overall it’s a decent device and I expect it would be OK for a lot of users, but there are clearly manufacturing faults and I wouldn’t go as far as recommending it. An update on this - After a few months use I discovered this runs on an older version of Bluetooth that doesn't connect with all receiving devices. If I could I would remove one of the three stars.

Thought of writing this after reading other reviews before I bought it. Main purpose was to get better sound quality than my phone paired with Bluetooth and to stop using the phone too much. Think I achieved both now. Sound quality is great with a budget IEM and usual MP3 tracks. It feels solid without feeling bulky. Out of the box I could transfer tracks from laptop straight away. There were comments about albums artista not showing up correctly but for me they all worked. May be because I use mp3tag editor first to edit covers etc. so I'm 100% satisfied with it.

First off, the player itself is a nice, small, sleek looking device. Nice build, doesn't feel cheap, strong. Fits in your pocket very nicely. The sound quality can be really quite good, but I have noticed some tracks can "crackle", but I'm not sure if that is possibly something that happened during transferring the music, or the player itself. There are features like searching by genre, artist etc..., but don't expect these to work. You will be transferring your files to a drive, to the micro sd. For some reason, the player wont find any music, you have to manually go through the menus, selecting files, sd card, then scroll for your music. Scrolling can be quite a pain, as sometimes the device thinks you scroll left or right when you are going up or down, which brings up another screen. My biggest complaint about this device, and if you on hard wiring your headphones this wont affect you. It is the blutooth. This is very dodgy. I use my bose quiet comfort ear buds (sound great), but I will lose my connection every now and again. To restore it, I have to turn the device off and on again. Another thing, when you want to connect your blutooth when the player is on. You might not hear anything, though it will show on the screen that blutooth is on. Turn the touch off, then on again. Not sure why, but it wont connect properly if you try connecting your blutooth phones/buds while the touch is on. Overall, it is a nice bit of kit. Just be warned that the blutooth is very much a gamble now and again. Hardwired, this is a great wee player. Edit - sitting in the airport trying to listen to my music. The Bluetooth is just awful. Absolutely awful

Bluetooth is hopeless. It recognised very few devices, including my Sony headphones. The few devices it did recognise, it refused to connect to. Not fit for purpose. The machine itself felt solid, but the round scroll wheel was hit or miss in its navigation and felt like it wouldn't last a week. Since I couldn't connect any devices to it, I can't comment on sound quality. Maybe this was just a dodgy one, but mine was returned. I'll look elsewhere.

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!

Nell'insieme è un buon acquisto, la qualità audio è indubbiamente buona. Tuttavia mi lascia un pò perplesso la gestione del funzionamento del lettore. Una volta iniziata la riproduzione di un brano, se si vuole tornare indietro ed accedere ad un altro album dello stesso artista, si è costretti a ritornare alla lista complessiva delle cartelle di tutti gli artisti, scorrere tutto l'elenco ed arrivare all'artista in questione, e quindi all'elenco dei suoi album. Ritengo la cosa molto molto scomoda, provengo da lettori che sono molto più pratici in questo senso, consentendo semplicemente di rifare all'indietro il percorso fatto per arrivare a quell'artista e a quel brano. Spero di essere stato chiaro. Poi ho verificato che c'è un bug nel software quando si attiva lo screensaver ( che infatti ho disattivato ), per cui se durante la riproduzione si accende lo schermo col pulsante di accensione, a volte il lettore stoppa la riproduzione, si spegne e riaccende. Ad ogni modo, non posso dire di essere deluso da questo lettore, ma il software di gestione andrebbe migliorato.

Fantastische speler met zeer goed geluid Er wordt vermeld tot 256 gb kaartje maar mijn 512 gb werkt prima zodat ik alles in flac er op het gezet een echte aanrader. Het menu komt een beetje eenvoudig over maar als je het een tijdje gebruikt blijkt het toch wel handig te zijn.