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November 07, 2006
Life with The Cowon A2
I ended up purchasing a Cowon A2 after checking out Packgrogs.
http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/a2/
The points that interested me were the added enhancers for music and the wide screen.
Although the hard drive is a mere 30GB (by today's standards) this thing packs a wolup on sound.
After receiving, testing and hearing the enhancements I was sold that this was a solid purchase.
Navigation is via folder based organization with a joystick.
It's fairly simple, yet the joystick can be cumbersome when you finally select a fil to play.
Once you get an mp3 up and running adding in BBE, MP3 EnHance, MachBass and 3D sourround this thing sounds so good you do not want to take your headphones off.
I found myself rapidly loading my favorite tunes and listening over and over.
Life with this unit has been pretty good. It's farily reasonble in size and with the added remote, allows me to leave it in my bag while on the subway.
For video, the cowon A2 excels. With it's wide screen 480x272 display and auto sizing almost anything looks good.
I've found AVI/XVID files made with autogk come out the best.
Yet be prepared to spend 4 hours encoding.
Heck, with that time frame, I may have to upgrade my video laptop!
Overall I give this unit a 4.5 out of 5.
Pros: Size, Battery usage, Screen, mp3 sound (OMG!), remote.
Cons: AV/jack door is a PAIN! USB charging has weird way of usage. USB usage still uses some battery power.
(wish it had a dock). Wish it had a larger hard drive. 30GB is good, but 60 is better LOL!
Posted by Me on November 7, 2006 07:26 PM
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