FiiO M7 Music player bluetooth BLACK

My iPod Classic was slowly dying, I tried a Sony MP3 player but it kept crashing and had to return it to squeeze the last drops of life out of my Classic before it died. I researched players and then opted for this relativly reasonably priced unit and was not disappointed. The sound quality, build, look are all immense together with an intuitive interface. Admittedly loading the micro SD is time consuming and some artwork does not copy across but it is worth it. I've run the M7 through a Bose and Sony bluetooth speaker, Bose and Sony headphones and RHA T20i the sound quality blows Apple away, with no lag, stuttering, pops or long silences between songs. Bluetooth connection is a breeze with no drop out of signal. If all you want is to get away from your mobile, with the distraction of apps and the internet to enjoy your music collection then this is worth every penny.

I already had the Sony NW-A55L so I just copied all the music from the Walkman's card to a 128 MicroSD Card and popped it into this player. The card has slightly more than 1, 600 songs. All songs play without any problems and even display and scroll lyrics where I have uploaded song lyrics (LRC) are available.The sound quality is fantastic. I like bass so I tweaked the Equaliser to increase the bass frequencies. You can balance the sound or tune it however you want by editing the Equalisers. If you do not want complication, it still sounds awesome with the default setting, one of the presets Pop or Rock. I used to debate buying one of these thinking I already have a very capable Smartphone that plays Hires files 24bit/ 192KHz. I am very happy I got this DAC. It blows my Smartphone out of the water. It is not just louder so I do listen mostly below half the volume but also have a richer bigger sound stage.The lightweight Android Operating System is light. You can't install apps and that is fine with me. The stock plater works great, the search function is fast, as you type the artist or song name, it suggests matching files and it keeps that search history. It is really easy to use. When a song is playing, I just flick to the right and it displays and scrolls song lyrics left scroll back to cover art. Tap on the song and it shows song format, file size, bitrate, and a heart (tap the heart to add to favorites).I love the volume control wheel, better than buttons. In Settings, it allows one to enable/ disable controls for when the screen is off to avoid accidentally pressing buttons. So I disabled the press and next/ back buttons. That locks the Player when the screen is off.I have given it 4 instead of 5 even though I really like it because it froze after booting and I could not get it to work until I forced a reboot. I got the tip to force a reboot from the Fiio forums so some other people had the same problem. I have had the Sony a55 for over a year and it has never frozen so this made me worried. It has since worked flawlessly after that scare so I hope it will not glitch in that way again.

I love my music to the point where I refuse to just use anything to hear quality, I do not use a mobile phone either for music as there is no comparison to a quality stand alone player. The M7 is just superb, I was doubtful when I first looked at them, but the feel, the build and the user components' are exemplary.I have so far played just about every genre of music on this baby and I really am hearing parts of the music I have just not heard on cheaper players, they play with the same sound quality I expect from my Bose systems. I updated the player to the 1.3 firmware and have not come across any issues at all. I would highly recommend this player to any real lover of music who spends quality time gathering the best from their tunes.File loading is a sinch, put the sd card into your pc, open it up then just drop in your music files to the sd card,, if you use ITunes, then just find your main iTunes music folder, grab the files you want, drop them onto the sd card, put the sd card into the M7 and there you go. When you first start the M7 it will find your music and create the library. Volume is superb, quiet as you like, or blow your ears away as loud as you like. Its ease of use is wonderful.. Faultless perfection indeed.

I’ve had one of these for some time and it just doesn’t work well with Bluetooth headphones. In fact it will not pair with my Sony Bluetooth headphones at all. It seems to find devices in my neighbours homes, but not the headphones which are right next to it. If you’re going to buy this, don’t expect it to work well with your Bluetooth devices as you may be as disappointed as I am. I’m now looking for something that is compatible with my headphones, and this will be going to one of the CEX shops.