Kenwood's Media Keg HD10GB7: world's smallest disk-based DAP

by Thomas Ricker, posted Nov 29th 2006 at 8:17AM

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.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Portable Audio

Tags: DAP, hd10gb7, kenwood, media keg, MediaKeg, mp3 player, Mp3Player, world's smallest, World'sSmallest

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Jules @ Nov 29th 2006 9:35AM

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.

For interested people: http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=220053732485&rd=1&rd=1

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R @ Nov 29th 2006 10:50AM

I'd rather have the flash-based 8GB Sansa for half the price. Discs are dead as, well . . . disco.

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PEZ @ Nov 29th 2006 11:30AM

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

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Ross @ Nov 29th 2006 11:07AM

No UMS, No sale!

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Nobuyuki Idei @ Nov 29th 2006 12:17PM

Does it do FLAC?

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TIMMAH! @ Nov 30th 2006 4:33PM

What the hell is up with the "keg" thing?

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