Experience Superior Sound Quality with the F28 HiFi Bluetooth MP3 Player – Your Ultimate High-Res Portable Music Companion! 3.5-Inch Digital Audio Player with 512GB Support for Unmatched Lossless Music Enjoyment

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So, here is my review. It’s a bit long as I thought it might be useful to cover off as many points as possible. When I bought this unit there were only 2 reviews and it was such a new unit it wasn’t even advertised on Surfans website. So could have been a bit suspect.Firstly delivery . Ordered on 8 July. Arrived on 19 July . Great delivery.Unboxing. You get 1 x unit plus a USB cable and a 22page instruction manual. No Micro SD card.First turn on. Battery had 98% life in it. Turned on in just a moment. First impression of screen. Bright. Clear and colourful. Text is crisp and sharp. Just changed the first setting – which was to set it to “English.”While doing this I was loading a new Kingston Go Plus 256GB micro SD card with my music collection. Mainly MP3’s (@320kb) and FLACS (@44.1/16). (I’m not into “hi-Res” as there is no way my ears could discern any difference between that and a FLAC track). 12,500 files and 150 GB of music. I didn’t need to format the card. (amazon boxed the F28 and SD card together – well done!)First issue. I followed menu down the branches. But didn’t seem to be able to get back to the original home screen. Fixed by swiping the screen. Nice! So this isn’t just a tap screen you can swipe left/right and up/down as well.SD card still loading. So fiddled with some settings. Touch screen very responsive. Nice!. System Setting the usual basics: Lock screen, font size, time / date, brightness etc. Play settings has the equaliser (on/Off), Play modes, some DSP settngs, gapless playback, crossfade etc. I’m going to leave these at factory settings – except the equaliser that I’ll set to “Rock” (later on I will do a custom equaliser)Theres a blue tooth setting. (Will try this later. ), an electronic text setting (don’t know yet what this is), a Playlist, my Music folder and update data base settings. I’ll leave these until I load my SD card.Certainly seems to be enough setting to keep you happy!So now I’ve been playing with it for a while. Build quality looks and feels good. I like the large screen. Push buttons (on/off and forward /back/pause) are all nice and firm. The bronze volume spinner wheel rotates freely and easily. Seems solid enough – but click may be a bit on the light side. Fits nicely in the hand. No sharp edges. I don’t know what teh screen is made of – will update later on how scratch proof it is. The shiny brass volume knob and inputs are nice touches. Gives it a bit more “pop”. Ear phone plug connection nice and solid. No negatives on this front.So, now it has taken 45 minutes to load the 150GB of music onto the SD card. Insert it intothe F28, scan data base and this takes 4 minutes to load into the database. Fast!!And now for the big test. Listening to some music. I’ll only give a very brief over view here. So I recently bough Pink Floyd Animals 2018 remix on blu ray. Its very different from the original and I’ve listened to this a few times now so reasonably familiar with it. Listening through a pair of Schure SE535 earbuds. Track one is a good test because Waters vocals are a lot more forward – more like you are listening to him at a small gig. Nice an clear. Tick. Next Pigs (Three Different ones) Maosns rums coming through nice and strong. And Gilmours guitar crips and clean. Tick. And Finally Sheep. I’m not expecting to hear much of the birds in the intro – and this is what I get. Great! Nothing about this first listen disappoints. Listening volume was at 49% which is reasonably loud. No distortion. At 70% still no distortion – and at this volume I wouldn’t expect my hearing to last long. 80% is no longer comfortable for me so no idea how it plays above this.All up first impression. Very good. Hard to fault anything at the moment. Gets a 4.5 star only because it is too early to test things like how easily screen scratches or switches last.

En general el producto esta bastante bien, es muy intuitivo. La verdad es que la calidad de audio es muy buena, dibuja los sonidos muy bonito y al final es lo que uno paga. Por otra parte la conexión a Bluetooth también es bastante eficiente, se puede usar en el coche sin ningún problema.No tiene internet, por lo cual no se puede descargar aplicaciones como Tidal, o Deezer, así que la única manera de reproducir es a través de música descargada. Una vez que se escanean las canciones el reproductor acomoda por artista, album, canciones, lo cual es muy útil, esto no se ve en las especificaciones, pero esta bastante bien.La duración de la pila es buena, creo que si lo utilizas 1 hora al día te podría durar una semana la pila aproximadamente.

I’m Apple convert having many different iPods and also iPhone 14 pro user but I was looking for something different, more memory and play different Hi-Res file formats. Just wanted an off-line player. No wifi was OK for me.Not in any specific order:Portable music player for my entire collection of about 8000 songs, mostly ALAC and some FLAC format (use 256Gb memory card)Easy transfer of files for my Mac to F28Hi-res audio player, ALAC and Flac minimumSmall enough to take for gym and walksSound quality better than my iPhoneCouple to my Audiolab 7000 stereo amp via PCUSB or AptX BTThe surfans F28 ticks all the boxes for me.The user interface could be better(not in the same class as classic iPod) and to create playlists takes some effort. But you get use to this.Its small and slippery but looks good.I could really do with a case for it.The DAC sound quality is superb.This is great value and overall quality is a real gem for the price.Highly recommended.Further addition:I a couple of weeks ago accidentally dropped my F28 and for some reason it stopped playing even though there was no visible damage or scratch to the F28.I have to say I had great support from Mark of Surfans and the unit was replaced under warranty. I found Surfans to be very responsive and helpful. Their product support was outstanding.Vinod

Acquistato per sostituire un Sony NW-A55 la cui batteria comincia a dare segni di vecchiaia. In dettaglio ecco la mia opinione su questo Surfans F28:è realizzato completamente in metallo, ad eccezione dei tastini di comando. Le rifiniture sono ottime, alla vista sembra un apparecchio più costoso di quanto lo sia in realtà. Riproduce praticamente tutte le tipologie di file musicali, compreso il formato DSD 256. Al contrario di numerosi concorrenti, che per la decodifica dispongono di un solo DAC, ne ha invece due, uno per canale. Il suo sistema bluetooth funziona sia in ricezione che in trasmissione e tra i suoi codec c’è anche l’LDAC, in grado di garantire una qualità di riproduzione sostanzialmente pari al CD. L’utilizzo bluetooth nel mio caso avviene mediante auricolari Soundcore Anker Space A40 e devo dire che la connessione è sempre stabile. Stessa cosa avviene se lo collego in bluetooth ad un Fiio BTA30 PRO. E’ possibile usarlo anche come USB-DAC, collegato ad uno smartphone o a un Pc. E’ dotato anche di un equalizzatore con otto settaggi già predisposti e utilizzabili anche durante la trasmissione bluetooh, cosa che il Sony non mi permette di fare. Non è dotato di una sua memoria interna, ma viene fornito di una microSd da 32 GB. E’ comunque capace di gestirne una fino a 512 GB. Per quanto riguarda la qualità audio, la reputo estremamente soddisfacente, non molto dissimile da quella del Sony, con solo un pizzico di calore in più nella timbrica, cosa che trovo molto gradevole. Di solito lo utilizzo collegato ad una cuffia Sennheiser 560 HD, che garantisce una riproduzione lineare e analitica, estremamente godibile. E’ possibile anche l’utilizzo di cuffie aventi il connettore di tipo bilanciato. Può praticamente pilotare qualsiasi cuffia, a prescindere dalla sensibilità della stessa, in quanto le uscite si possono settare su L(low) e H (hight). Per quanto riguarda la batteria, non ho avuto il tempo per fare una verifica della durata della singola carica, ma ho l’impressione che l’autonomia sia molto prossima a quella prevista, intorno alle 12 ore.Pochi e per me trascurabili, i difetti. Il software di gestione potrebbe essere più evoluto e la traduzione in italiano, più precisa. Il pannello touchscreen IPS da 3,5 pollici potrebbe essere più reattivo. Le regolazioni dell’equalizzatore non le trovo molto efficaci, anche se per mia abitudine, non lo utilizzo mai. In definitiva lo consiglio senza riserve, soprattutto considerandone il costo.