Kenwood's been churning out DAPs with high quality audio for awhile now. Some
with disks, some
with flash, but all with superior sound quality to
the usual wares. Now they've taken the whole kit and shrunk it down into this, the world's smallest disk-based DAP. Sporting a 10GB (presumably 1-inch) disk drive, the new Media Keg HD10GB7 brings that same "clear digital amplifier" and sound processing found in
their flagship player. The screen has been reduced to a mere 1.5-inches which if fine by us -- not like the Media Kegs' support video anyway. Fortunately, the battery doesn't suffer from miniaturization as it's capable of pumping MP3s for a full 24-hours; after which a 3-hour recharge from USB will top things off. The Napster to Go supporting HD10GB7 measures in at 78-grams / 62×44×17-millimeters so it'll go just about anywhere, especially Japan where these will hit first come December for about ¥40,000 or about $345.
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posted Nov 29th 2006 8:17AM
Nice, but very expensive though.
Bought the HD20GA7 1 year ago, but it's overkill for me. Used it with a pair Shure E2Cs which was a excellent combination but for me a Nokia N80 with a 2GB miniSD + Shure E2C's is fine too.
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I'd rather have the flash-based 8GB Sansa for half the price. Discs are dead as, well . . . disco.
The thing I hate (or am on the fence abou) with the sansa is the weird mini USB port it has... or am I wrong. Its not standard?
OTherwise, the sansa is the onlt real mp3 player out there that can compete - though I like the 4GB clix, too :-D
No UMS, No sale!
Does it do FLAC?
What the hell is up with the "keg" thing?