I bought this unit for a quick stand-in replacement for an RCA S1010A, both units run on AAA batteries, for which I own rechargeable batteries for.
First thing I noticed was the sound quality. With a pair of decent ear buds, it's horrible. No bass, and the firmware EQ doesn't help there, though it might if there was better firmware available somewhere. Of this writing I haven't found better firmware yet for this unit.
You won't notice the sound quality if you are using the unit with a high powered stereo, it does have plenty of volume.
It's also very hard to plug it in to a usb port, the connection is horrible, and it's hit or miss to make a solid usb connection, a port would have been better than a slide out plug, which is flimsy plastic.
I have to hand it to RCA on this one, granted, I paid over 50 dollars for a 500 MB unit, but it's sound quality beats this unit hands down.
I would have paid more to have better firmware than this unit currently has. It's not easy to find a song out of a possible 1000 songs.
On the plus side, I liked it enough it keep it, so that does say something positive about it. It's not a horrible unit, but I will probably end up buying another more expensive unit which means this one will be good for a cheap storage device, not a music player.
A word of advice with mp3 players, if you don't check your files for errors before you load them onto the unit, eventually they seem to corrupt the firmware until it no longer works properly which is what happened with the RCA, two years later after warranty they are still trying to help me get it working again which says allot about them. Get more detail about 2GB WMA/MP3 Digital Audio Player.
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