Napa DAV 326

by Andrew Pociu on Oct, 23 2004 - 04:15

Description:

A simple, entry level CD-DA/MP3/WMA player that plays good without being fancy.

Content:

I bought this player a few days ago with $80. First I wanted to buy a small MP3 player, the size of a lighter (you know the ones with 64 or 128MB), but I found out that their only advantage is that they're small. The 128MB one can store about as much as an Audio CD (20 melodies). But not all have LCD's or the function to navigate through folders and select the song you want. Moreover, they're not so powerful when it comes to audio volume.

So I prefered this CD-DA/MP3/WMA player which supports these formats and has folder navigation. Also what's great is that it works with M3U playlists. It gets song information from the ID3 tags.

It supports multisession CDs and CD-RWs/

They say it has an antishock function that holds 960 seconds. I shaked it a bit and the song continued to play normally, so they might be right.

You have 32 steps to set the volume but within the first 6 you can't hear anything.

There's also a simple equalizer with some presets (Normal / Classic / Pop/ Jazz / Rock) and one user defined.

It has a green backlight for the LCD but it's very dim.

It has a Line Out.

They say it uses a Sony mechanism, but I can't say much about it...

You can view more technical details on the player's home page: http://www.amaxhk.com/products/napa/326/dav326.htm.

You can listen to about 200 MP3 files (as much as a CD usually can hold), but if you use WMA instead you can get even more.

In the box you find two wrapped pieces of paper (the quick start guide), a charger, some headphones that I don't recommend using (they lower the sound quality a lot), a CD with the manual in PDF and drivers for other Napa devices, a simple carrying case and two AA rechargeable batteries made by Pana