Audio Reviews

Overall, this player packs more punch than all the others. No other player can compete in storage capacity (you can buy additional storage to the 32MB included here), and the eGo has more innovative features, such as MP3Mail and Interactivity. Using the i2Go website, you can customize your own news, sports, and weather content for downloading to your eGo. The eGo can also load an IBM microdrive for a whopping 340mb of storage space, or 680mb if you buy two microdrives and the optional Compact Flash Expansion Slot! Also, it's not locked into a certain amount of memory, you can add more as the flash card technology improves. It's also slick-looking and perfect for the car. The eGo is a great product and well worth the money.

I bought the 32MB eGo player about 4 months ago. Since then, the company who makes it, i2Go, has made tons of improvements which I just download from the desktop software, the MP3Agent. I love it. I use it a lot in my car - it can play through the car stereo. The coolest is that I can drag and drop my MP3 files from my own collection OR go to i2Go's website and build a program that is the stuff I want to listen to - like news, sports, weather, entertainment info, and music.

I'm actually going to buy more memory (an additional 64MB) from i2Go because I find it better than listening to the radio - more customized for me. The customization, expandability and upgradeability options are awesome!

I have played with a friends MP3 player (not an eGo) and the eGo has great sound quality too.

I highly recommend this product for someone who spends a lot of time on the go.

The sound quality is the best I've ever heard from any piece of audio equipment. That's saying alot since the unit weighs less than the AA battery that powers it. With half a gig of space, this thing stores about 16 hours of CD quality music or 32 hours of radio quality music, in something roughly the size of a lighter. Being flash memory based, it won't skip like a CD player or Ipod. It needs better earphones though and the armstrap, although of high quality, only fits women (I can't even get it over my forearm, let alone my bicep *flex* One thing not mentioned anywhere is the microphone is extremely good. The unit will record about 33 hours of high quality sound, making it perfect for students who like to record lectures (the unit has a mode specifically designed for this). Again, this is amazing, considering the size and cost of the unit.

I was willing to pay extra for extra features w/ this player and those extras are worthwhile. What the descriptions and iriver site doesn't tell you that this player has a clock and timer.

Joystick does not look like the picture on Amazon or iRiver's US site. It looks like the iRiver North European site: irivernordic.com You can also get a USB Mass Storage (UMS) firmware from that site but I haven't tried it yet.

Alarm function just plays the last played MP3. The timed radio recordings work great but I don't know how to stop it, yet. Look at the manual from iriver's website and see the features for your self as I'm limited to 1,000 words on this review. Sound quality is great and volume even greater. Can go up to 40 but plays loud enough at 20 setting. EQ settings and 3D settings sound really nice, even on the included headphones. The headphones don't have too much bass so I used different ones. Can also adjust battery display setting for alkaline or rechargeable. I hated how previous players displayed inaccurate battery life because they base it on alkaline batteries.

Line-in and radio recordings sound great because I am able to record up to 320bps compared to others like the Samsung that can only go up to 128bps. Recordings are in *.rec format that the included windows utility can convert. The windows utility shouldn't be taken lightly. You can enter,label,& save all your radio station presets from it to save time. The radio reception is alright but what do you expect from such a small device? PLL? I use my home stereo which gets great reception from a Cable TV adapter and use the line-in recording.

The supplied armband is very well made and looks nice. People w/ humangus muscles or just fat arms can't get it around their arms though.

The only cons I see are:
If hold is not in place it is easy to accidently delete radio station presets and other settings. Once you set it don't forget to lock it as there are many options to change.

Can't copy songs from player to computer w/ the included software since there is no official US UMS support. Their version of DRM?

I purchased this receiver to complement my recent purchase of a JVC XV-FA900BK 7-disc DVD player, an older model 200-CD player, a 6-CD player, a VCR and a WEBTV browser. At the time I bought these 2 new JVC items, the reviews for the 7-disc DVD player were 2 stars out of 5, based on only 6 reviews (a bad choice if you believe reviews), and 5 stars out of 5 (based on only 1 review) for the receiver (again, not something on which to base a purchase). I opted, however, to base my choice on my past experience with the JVC brand, rather than on the small number of reviews which made up these ratings. The consistency of quality of JVC products has proven itself to me on at least 5 separate occasions in the past, so I followed my instincts. This proved to be the right decision. The capabilities and versatility of both the 7-disc DVD player and this receiver, especially considering the price tags, is nothing less than astounding! The receiver can be fine tuned, through it's multitude of internal adjustments, to perform and sound fantastic, in any size or shape of room and any furnishings (excluding, of course, a large auditorium). These internal adjustments cover an entire array of up to 5 separate speaker stations-- or as few as 2-- and also are adjustable with respect to speaker size and distance of separation as well as tonality and crossover. WOW! For the price, I'm certain I've not heard a better audio/video receiver-- not one! Enough said. Both units get the top rating from me!!!

Awesome sound, this system is as loud as u need if u get a decent set of speakers and and good 100 watt sub to go with it youll have enough sound to have huge loud parties or play Opera cds with persices and exact sound

There are a couple of key features that really make this unit stand out:

1) It has more inputs than you can shake a stick at, and once you have the thing configured properly, everything works just like you'd expect.

Most notably, it does audio *and* video source switching. All your video devices send their signals to the amplifier, and a single video out cable is run to the monitor. So when you switch inputs on the amp, the appropriate video source is automatually routed to the monitor for you.

It has 1 digital co-ax connection (RCA jack) and 4 fiber-optic digital inputs, and they can be assigned to different sources. In my case, I used a digital cable box as the co-ax source, my JVC cd changer as optical 1, and my JVC DVD player as optical source 2.

Not only does this provide an all-digital input path for these digital sources, but it greatly cleans up the wiring at the back of the unit.

And it still has inputs for 2 VCRs, a tape player, a turntable, a video camera (front inputs) a CDR/minidisc player, and a USB audio connection!

2) If you have other JVC components, the Compu-Link interconnection is a godsend, especially the Text-Compu-Link output from the CD changer. This allows the CD changer to export its displays (normally confined to the little LED readout on the changer) to the TV, via the amp. Search for disks/tacks/artists on the TV screen! This revolutionized the use of the CD changer.

All the amplifier features can be accessed this way as well.

3) Performance is very good. This is a very clean and crisp amplifier - perhaps not audiophile-quality, but there is no noise or distortion that I could detect at reasonable volume levels. The surround processor automatically recognises Pro-Logic, Dolby Digital, and DTS input streams and does the appropriate thing with them. I moved up from a basic Pro-Logic (RF, Cen, LF, Rear) amplifier, and the difference in sound dynamics was amazing.

The only beefs I have are minor:

1) The remote is poorly designed. Prior JVC remotes have been ergonomically designed, with common fucntions (volume, channel, DVD cursor) larger and located in such a way as they could be operated by feel. This remote is a plain rectangular grid with all the buttons the same size. Luckily, JVC seems to have kept the same IR codes for the last 10 years, so older remotes with better ergonomics can still be used with this unit.

2) Setting the unit up can take some patience. the manual isn't bad, but it takes dilligence to get all the inputs assigned and working correctly, especially the digital inputs. Some behavior was not initially obvious - but it IS all documented, if you take the time to _carefully_ read the manual.

Highly recommended!

DG

This is one of the best receivers I have ever owned. This model has all the features you are looking for at a reasonable price.

I was thinking it won't work in my Pentax Optio 330GS digital camera, but it work, I ordered all the way to colombia trough my suite in Miami, works perfect

I bought this adapter to accompany my new Olympus digital camera because it was much less expensive than the Olympus brand adapter.

This adapter is versatile; it comes with 4 different plug-ins to fit an assortment of devices.

I have had no problems using the adapter and highly recommend it!

finaly a woofer I can afford!!! The sound is great. My neighbors are ganna file a complaint if I turn it up again in our garage. when I have it in our garage you can feel it 30 feet away on the sidewalk. I love this woofer. I got an enclosure for it and im afrade my house is ganna fall apart. I use it more for home audio cuz I cant touch our jeep. when I first looked at it I saw the magnet and was like WuttheF its small! but it dont make any difference. this thing hits hard and lasts.

Wow, with the money you save buying these, you can buy yourself an amp to go with. I bought two, they are awesome. THe only thing you are getting when you buy a big brand equivilant to these is the name, they are that good. I would highly recommend these if you want a quality budget subwoofer.

My old subwoofer cable was the thickness of a twisty-tie,
this cable has the thickness. Typically thicker cables perform better because of a thicker jacket protecting the cable
from interference, and signal loss. This cable provides more responsive crisp sounding bass. It Sounds like I turned up the volume, and bought a new sub with better sound quality.

This cable made by monster Cable improved my subwofer a lot. It gave me clear deep bass at great frequency. I had been using the cable that came with my system I had never really thought about it but when I stumbled across this one i picked it up. It is also great for running across longer paths because you do not lose much of the signal.

My amplifier decodes Dolby pro logic from these no problem and they're just all around awesome, I can't say enough.

Great product for recording or just simply playing in surround sound format.

The sad truth is, if you're using the cables that came with your machine, you probably aren't getting the most out of your DVD player. No matter how much you spent on the player, the cables it came supplied with are probably not good enough. Its the same story as with hi-fi equipment, as regards cables and speakers. They skimp on them to give you a lower price. So, for a perfectly reasonable price, you can upgrade. You just plug 'em in, and hey presto, better quality. It really is that simple. So simple, in fact, it'd be a shame not to do it. You could be enjoying better pictures, greater sharpness, more vivid colours.

And you paid enough for the player, after all. You might as well get it perfect!

I set up a home theatre system it loved it. I eventually went the extra mile and purchased the Monster Interlink Connections, S-Video (for my DVD and Satellite), and Speaker cables. What a difference. My wife walked into the house just as I had finished connecting and couldn't believe it was the same system with only different cables. It made the system sound MUCH better. One thing I read once and now believe...reserve about 10% of your home theatre budget for cables (If you are spending or plan on spending $5000.00 on TV, surround sound, speakers, etc, then plan on spending about $500.00 for cables. It makes a world of difference!

the cables are great they are very strong but bendable at the same time also look cool and most importantly the give a great piture actualy i havent compared it to anything bet i had a component for my ps2 now i have it for my xbox and the the dvds look a lot better with monster cables for my xbox than normal sony component hook up for my ps2 the cables are overall great and the colors really look more real and alive and if u notice with normal av cables u see color mixing and the backgrounds look fuzzy (kinda) and component get rid of 99% (rarely u see a very little color fade or something in a couple of movies in the wrold) and it uses 3 anlog cables for video instead of the 1 anlog that is standerd so u colud say it makes the picture 3x better

Why hasen't any else reviewed this great product? Anyways I got my component cable a few days again and can certainly say I notice a great improvment in video quality over my previous S-Video connection. You can certainly tell the difference in the action packed DVD's like Xmen,Spiderman,Terminator and such. But in movies like Bruce Almighty you may not notice the difference.
These are definitely worth the cost.