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  • Cowon D2+ 16GB

    Sound is Amazing ulike any other w/full EQ customization up the ass!

    Very touch sensitive, very clear and 16million color display.

    Small to carry in ur pocket but don't sit on it, you'll break the screen.

    Up to 52hrs of music play - Amazing!

    74mw output power, very powerful has its own build in amp, great for car sound systems, truly powerful!

    50 degrees volume maxed out.

    Took me a freakin Year to get sound settings perfect as studio quality!

  • So after a year trying to get this powerful mp3 player to sound amazing in my car I discover these settings and boy am Im truly fully enjoying my Cowon D2+ now! Best setting ever.... Here they r: BBE+ = 10 Mach3Bass = 10 3D Surround = 3 or 4 Stereo Enhance = 2 MP Enhance = v <---- checked. User EQ = 8 - 6 or 7 - 4 to 8 - 7 - 11 Hz = 80 - 500 - 1.4k - 3.2k -11.7k Wide Bandwidth = ON on all three. Enjoy guys!
  • Hey I hear real bass there. I want to know how much better is the audio quality (bass and all other) between this and a mobile phone (also really pro phone on audio). And again the bass on this clip is recorded from the sound inside the player or you had some kind of output device. I want to buy one and want to know from someone that tested it if this is worth the money...

  • does anyone know how much memory the SD card may have so that the D2 is still able to read it, by having a cowon D2 8 GB? thnx

  • @Annuliesz 32 GB as far as I know

  • can u make notes on this mp3

    what is that text thing about?

  • Yes, you can. And you can read .txt-files on it!

  • i hear the flac files can really blow your mind on these things any truth to that would it be worth my money

  • <3 the player, <3 savage garden^^

  • The Cowon S9 Is definitely better

    and btw........I know where to get the cowon s9 for less than $75...........message me for more info :) (you'll be glad you did)

  • where?

  • can any one tell me what do i need to do to make the d2 recognise shortcut files?

    i have 8gb card and i have music in it so i took it and put it on the d2 2gb i have and i have put it in the folder as shortcuts but the d2 cant recognise them

  • victory of d2!!!!!

    never running out thats battery

    i love it lol

  • awesome sound quality & battery life. 2 days of continous music! (use with supplied earphone at mid volume) + a convenient calculators (1 is a scientific on 2.59 firmware version)

  • compared to archos 5, which is better in terms of sound and video?

  • i love the cowon d2,

    but i had to send mine back due to a bubble in the screen. other than that, cowon is a powerfull player. Can't wait till i get another one! :D

  • seems great but i don't like the fact that you have to click so many things just do one thing. that'll get on my nerves. guess i'll just need to get used to it. its about the same price as a itouch anyway

  • not really

  • I wish they would make a current version of the RIO KARMA...best mp3 player ever made,just cheap construction killed it...

  • hey guys i know this player has very good sound quality thats also a very important thing for me i am a music producer i also know that this player is very loud beacause of its high output etc... but please look at this piece! design factor zero! i am really sorry for the d2 owners who have to read my comment but this player looks like a casette player from the eighties in terms of design... no it looks like a stone!! naaw really so ugly ... sry guys

  • Pretty uninteresting.

    Btw, Eighties were cool.

  • haha woot sky tower represent man!

  • you should know that COWON D2 released before iPOD Touch 1st generation out to the market.

  • I really like this player but I don't think its interface is as good as my iPod Touches, that is where the iPod's shine and the Cowon's are a bit of a let down.

  • The problem with the ipod is you need to run itumes. Thats what makes the D2 so awesome its drag and drop. I will never buy an ipod product due to the fact that you need to run itunes.

  • you don't need itunes to run an ipod,try winamp or foobar much better software that's compatible with an ipod

  • Yes but is the ipod drag and drop. I can plug the D2 into any PC with a 5v uas cable and it works.

  • I'm not defending the ipod,I'm looking at buying a new mp3 player myself which is why i was watching this vid,besides i can plug my ipod into any comp I like as long as itunes isn't installed,even if no media player is installed I can just use sharepod!

  • if you want good sound - buy cowon. if you want games and other things - buy ipod. besides you need spend a lot of time on iPod(i mean iTouch because other iPods are not worth buying) like jailbrake installing some programs(mobileterminal) to install apps for free. i have an iPhone and a cowon d2. i use cowon for music and iphone for other things

  • can we put games?

  • yes..if its flash games.

  • oohhh only flash games yeah...

    wat bout other application?

    anyother ?

  • buy a psp or a nintendo ds if you want games....

  • hey size pls...

    in inches i wanna know how thick and lenth and all the size i wanna know wats the size will it be ..

    thanx reply fast pls XD..

  • here is a size of D2.

    78 x 55.4 x 16.6 mm

    You can calculate this mm to inch, right?

  • aite thanx

    XD

  • cant we change theme or change background pic or something??

    cuz it would look bit good XD...

    can or not?

  • yes :]

  • aite thanx :D

  • Well my D2 is working just fine for almost 2 years. I had lots of problem with ipod before this one, so I'm happy with my choice!

  • is this guys name peter file?

  • Man, Cowon D2 is a piece of shit IMO. I should have just gotten an iPod or iriver. The thing has broken twice in a 3 months. First the touch screen was doing crazy things so I sent it back, and when they returned it, 3 weeks later the power button broke. And I'm careful with my stuff. It's being repaired now and I hope this is the last of my problems....maybe I just got a bad one though but I wouldn't buy it again.

  • my power switch broke 2, can u tell me how i can reach the cojmpany or where to send it to

  • I am living in South Korea at the moment, so I just sent it back to the store where I bought it and had it back in a week. Cowon's service is actually very good. The address on my box is: COWON TOWER, 689-3, Yeoksam-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, 135-080, South Korea. (Maybe there is a service center where you live though)

  • corn d2? wtf?

  • there is an interesting comparison review on trustedones. i tried posting a link, but i guess that's not allowed. you can go to trustedones and search for "cowon"

  • "Final Preview" LOL. Never seen a stupid title like this. What comes next? Beginning Review of the middle postview?

  • lol

  • @Denkfix

    Haha love ya man

  • oh i have one of those. it's pretty cool! i set stewie as my wallpaper!

  • what is the video conversion like for it?

  • I know this thing has the best sound quality and features. But it has a terrible GUI and the player itself looks quite ugly too.

  • is the i river clix better?

  • The D2 has more features and better soundquality (although that's only noticable with very expensive headphones) but the clix looks better and has less firmware problems. They're both great players...

  • thanks im gonna get the clix its better for me. the cowon doesnt fit in as well

  • do u recommend (for sound quality) the iaudio 7 or d2? I'm stuck between the two, so can you offer some advice? thx

  • Sound quality wise IMO the 7 sound somewhat better, although the difference is very small so it's only noticeable if you have 500 dollar headphones. If you don't have such an expensive headphone, you won't notice any difference.

  • what does GUI stand for and what is it/what does it do

  • General User Interface.

    It's basically just the software you use to control the device. This video shows the GUI.

  • actually it's Graphical User Interface

  • Yes

  • @

    dubludude: Cowon is what where ipod ends and real audio starts.Ipod is for ignorants.

  • Let's compare what iaudio can do what ipod can't, shall we? ;) Also why would you want wifi on a mp3? I'm in for audio and iaudio is the best of the best, not to mention PMPs aswell.

  • Wanna hear something funny? Im actually looking at this for an upgrade FROM an ipod touch. And ipod touch is great..but 300 bucks..for 8gb...suck my dick

  • go watch other videos

  • today it came, only i need to wait 13, than's my birthday.

  • who is the comparison between Iriver Clix and Cowon D2? help¡¡¡

  • Thank you very much !! I want to buy an mp3 player and you've helped a lot with my choice ! Cheers !

  • the date of issue

    d2 - november 2006

    Ipod Touch - Oxtober 2007

  • ipod has terrible sound quality, and display color is way higher on D2 than iPod

  • I got mine about a week ago, and i cannot say a single bad word. Very happy didn't get an ipod or anything stupid like that.

  • In love with my new Cowon D2

  • this is world first touch screen mp3. but not as good as itouch. but even way much better that ipod and any other mp3 playes in the world. it has hundreds of functions with flash player which are calander, stopwatch, game, map... also you can watch free tv which is DMB, in korea. Its still beating ipod 3rd one even D2 came out in 2006. isn't that amazing?

  • lol, the world first touch screenmp3, you must be kidding me!!

  • ur ugly.....and fat

  • The Extras is missing on it.

    Best mp3 i have ever had...

  • is there internal speaker on this?

  • NO! =\

  • Most excellent player. I absolutely love my Cowon D2.

  • whats better? This or the creative zen?

  • cowon easily.

    better video file format support. has tv out. better battery life. doesn't have 'white screen of death' issues like creative zen. doesnt have audio/video out of sync issues like creative zen. etc etc.

  • the thing is that although i know the cowon has these, i dont really need tv out and great video support. My only qualm with the cowon is that it is seriously ugly and thick; and the 4gb costs the same as the 16gb creative... i wish they would make a revised one that is thinner; then i would buy it..

  • If you want looks and cheap price, go with Creative, that's not something most Cowon players target. People who buy this player usually want the great battery life (more than double that of the Zen) and basically unmatched feature set, they don't want compromises to keep it cheap and thin. When it comes down to it, the D2 is superior in almost every way, much better sound quality and output, better screen, better build quality, more features, SD Slot integration.

  • okay thanks for the advice... i cant really make a choice.. so i have decided to buy the PSP slim... cheaper than both the creative and the cowon, plus kickass screen (:

  • not comparable though.

  • You must be an idiot when owning a psp.

  • youre essentially dissing the millions of people who own psp... besides, its my choice, not urs, so just stfu

  • thats cool. get whatever suits your needs!

  • hey, you know what? in fact, the korean version of this d2 has dictionary & tv that works perfectly. i don't really see the reason why they got rid of those functions in u.s. version.

  • The TV features uses DMB, which isn't even available in the US, so of course it wasn't included. Dictionary devices seems to be a big thing in some Asian countries, while they're not in the US, so I understand that also, but any US user can just use a 3.xx version firmware and have the dictionary.

  • its all drag-and-drop so it should work on Vista. I hope it does-I have Vista (well on my laptop. I have an old XP desktop but I don't use it)either way, i ordered one. :D

  • is cowon d2 compatibele with Windows Vista?

  • Works perfectly with Vista

  • D2 rocks! Got it since 1/2 year and it still dominates apple^^

  • seems like a lot of menu to get through to get to the sd card :P

  • d2가 젤루 조아

  • d2 is cool.

  • One question, it's simple but it's nice to know...

    can you make playlists on the go?

    : )

    Cheers.

  • Yup it does

  • no you can´t. Just one DPL (special playlist).

  • can i ask what the external recording options are with this player? i need this info because i want to record some music i do with a piano player.can you tell me:

    In which recording bitrates can you record.

    Did you test recording with an external microphone?

    I know i am late discovering this player but i never knew it had a recording function from externals.

  • Yes it does perfectly, thats way i bought it!

    I use it with and without external recorder.

    You can record anything.

    Has handy equalizer also.

  • does it play mp4 videos

  • jesus christ the video response is fast.  there's like no buffer time?

  • the battery life is great 52 hours of audio :o

  • mother fuckin rip off on ebay omg im so picky a cowon for 130 US 2GB why they make memorie so small. all well i quess i Must buy 8GB sd card. But sound quality better be better than Iriver. And another Thing IPOD suck People treat that thing like a religion lol ipod this and that Sound sucks on it. and yeah Meizu not bad but i cancled my order on ebay Meizu Takes tooo long all the way from japan

  • i dont like it becuz its only 2g and 4g?

  • And 8gig.  And they make 32 gigabyte SDHC cards, so up to 40 freaking gigabytes!

  • No 32gig SDHC cards in the mainstream yet, just 16gigs. Tho 32 will be available & affordable by the summer of '08 tho... 16gigs for $99 isn't a bad deal for the moment neither :D

  • Yeah, I didn't realize that at time of posting-- I think it was Sony or Toshiba that's making the 32gb SDHC and 8gb mSDHC cards. I read they would be available the 1st of January a few days ago, perhaps I was misinformed. Oh, and the 16gb cards are already to 90 bucks!

  • I just ordered a 4gb on ebay for ~155.

  • does anyone know if you can change the theme of this? the menus are too blue

  • Because Apple iPod got a bad sound, asshole. You only buy an iPod to show the others, that you've got lot of money? Very silly, I think...

  • Accept the ipod touch has 1/3 of the screen resolution of the Cowon D2W and wont play 90% of the video files available on the web. So you have to not only transode all the files to mp4 but downgrade the resolution or it wont play on the ipod touch. Also D2W has a 60-80GB HDD not the retarded 8GB ssd restriction on the ipod touch.

  • oops posted in the wrong window, please ignore.

  • don't argue with asians when it comes to computer technology. Just shut your mouth and be a grateful american like me that we can take advantage it. :)

  • i bought d2 with 2 giga few days ago and some one told me that if i'll but memmory card with 8 giga my d2 will work a bit slower is that right?

  • cool man !!! it has touch-screen ^_^ !!i'm crazy 4 touch-screens :D

  • Very nice review, my dad bought one and is very pleased, although the firmware updates do come out all the time.

    the screen Quality is brilliant for watching movies and episodes, Sadly im still stuck with my Creative Zen Touch.

  • The ARCHOS Generation 5 is going to blow this out of the water. There new line is pretty sweet. Check out there new Gen 5 videos.

  • Yea well the Cowon Q5 series is going to blow the Archos 605 wifi out of the water!

  • Beat me to it... 4 months early =p

    You can even use the Q5W as a TV remote, or virtual TI-89t, those cost about 160 unless you look around. Incredibly cool. What "pmc" can solve 14 simultaneous equations?

  • so dose it play mp4

  • yeah, take that archos groupies

  • Cowon D2!!!!!!!!!!!

  • So which is better Meizu m6 or Cowon D2?

  • For me the issue is whether or not you like touch screens. I find many people to feel quite differently on this subject. I am a big fan of the D*click system, but if I liked touch screens I might get this. I do love playing flash games on the clix. The battery life and SD card are the big draws here. :)

  • Okay. So how many people are going to think this is an iPhone. :P

  • Many people thought the iriver clix 2G was an iPhone clone... even though it's older... Samsung's YP-P2 and Meizu's M3 are 'real' iPhone clones...

  • ...before you say anything about iphone clones...u should see what the iphone is a clone of...of course the LG Prada

    there have been others that have been out all over the world especially south korea that looks similar to the iphone

    i feel as if you're being ignorant of all other companies who work hard and then just because a overrated company such as apple makes it, it gets recognized and then all the others are turned into "clones"

  • you got that right

  • Well, I meant physical clones... but good finds. Anything Apple exposes at their silly keynotes is like, "Hey world! Stop what you are doing! This is the *PRODUCT NAME HERE*! It's revolutionarily new!" Meh.

  • Meizu M3 or M8? M3 is a different thing,M3 is probably the only meizu we can say is not similar/clone to other offers on the dap market.

  • how slow will it be?

  • ouch, PenaltyKillah got owned.

  • (to qwerjlk) Me owned? XD What if someone doesn't need to watch his YouTube-quality videos on TV, has his own battery adapter, constantly refreshes his music/video collection, and can live without leaving fingerprints and blemishes from touching the screen? In fact, iPhone users might suffer, especially when they want to have blind control over it (etc. switching to another song without looking at the device, like when it's in the user's pocket)?

  • yea you owned!

  • Yes yes yes... 52 hours of music and 10 hours of video... touchscreen... but these great innovations are over-shadowed by the iriver clix (2G)'s D*Click system, Flash games, and so slim!! And very customizable! And it's much faster loading pics and all that. If some company can combine these products together, it'd be the perfect iPod-killer.

  • On specs and features, the D2 beats it hands down. The D2 has better battery life, better screen, more audio formats, line-i, TV out, and the SD slot, while you're stuck with what you have as far as internal memory on the clix2, the D2 has expandability. The D2 now has Flash Lite supports like the clix2, so there are your games, and the touchscreen actually offers you more flexibility

  • But some games require tactile buttons, and because the iriver clix allows Flash content to be used as themes, unlimited possibilities can be created. And the D2, of course, is the top of its craft. No one's even paying attention to the top-notch battery life, but ever since the majority of MP3-player buyers are the mainstream consumers, the "sexiness" is considered. I myself acknowledge the iriver X20 to be an equivalent to the D2 is some other ways.

  • The screen of clix2 is better.

  • Features of this is better, and the Quality on this player is still amazing due to the size of it (2.5")

  • at last in image quality, not size

  • I can tell you that images take quite a time to load in the Cowon D2. Like digital cameras, they appear pixelated for half a second. And the text is sometimes hard to look. In my opinion, touchscreens isn't really so great as many expect. Let's say you're on the bus or in class. You don't want to show your player, but handle it while it's in your pocket.

  • looks like a nice product

  • this is great! thanks for the review.

  • so old man i got that thing 2 months ago

  • Can you lock all the buttons so that you won't accidently press anything if you were working out w/ it?

  • i made up my mind ima get it

  • Could one of you that has a D2 tell me about the line-in recording features? I'd like to know what the max quality is and what format is used to record. Thanks!

  • Had the same question myself as im considering buying the d2. Just found out it records at up to 256kbps to wma through the lin-in adapter cable sold seperatley

  • Thank you.

  • True it is a nice player, but I am waiting for the Q5! I have been using the A2-player for some time now, and it is the best gadget I have ever bought, so I am really looking forward do Iaudios next release:) Q5 should be released around june in the states, I think. 5" touchscreen with wifi, internet-browsing capabilities and intergrated GPS... Yummie...

  • Thanks for review. It was nice to see menu and how it works.

  • It does not support any but it's own file formats.

    I've not massively tested Jetaudio as a tool but it is at least quick. I've converted no files over 30mins in length, but it can batch convert and, as I said, is very quick (amd4200) even at the highest quality: an amazing player.

  • I have the D2 and it's a really great player. The sound quality is amazing and it has enough juice to use it even with headphones that are not easily driven and still be able to play your music really loud.

  • PLEASE answer this simple question that I can't find a difinitve answer to anywhere: Does the D2 have DIVX/XVID support, or must these file be converted with jetaudio first. If files must be converted, is this a lengthy process? For a standard 700MB movie, does this take 5min, or an hour?

  • should i get d2 or iriver clicks2 that will be out soon?

  • the D2 if you like touch screen, and the D2 screen is

    .3" bigger

  • I recommend D2 strongly! You won't regret the choice. I'm sure~~ I've been using it quite sometime and it's really nice player.

  • Great! thx

  • God I've been looking at this player for so long. When's the release date for this thing?

  • Hi, I have a question: when you are reading very long text file (a book for example), can you mark the position, where you stoped, to continue reading from this mark next time? Without searching and rolling text at this small display? It would be really awful to search 54th site.. Thank you very much for answer.

  • sure no problem. You can bookmark it.

  • very helpful,thanks

  • I'm upgrading my i6 to this D2 when the 4gb becomes available in the US!

  • Oh my... you got the iAudio 6? Methinks it was the last microdrive player alive - yes, micro hard drive! Cowon has mostly moved on to true PMPs - from that 2.5-inch D2 (smaller than a iPod) to the 7-inch N2.

  • holy shit I want this thing. The video resolution is amazing.

  • Is the speaker Korean?

  • thanks alot, look great!