S. pernicano

17 de abril de 2026

Roughly the size of a credit card. Glass front and back. Has radio and video. Has micro SD capacity.

For some time now I've been wanting to get back into listening to my music again but I'm so jaded and beat down by all of the complicated technology.I'm someone that owns multiple game consoles and tons of electronics and I code but I wanted something low tech for music.I didn't want to use my phone because it doesn't have capacity for microSD or songs.This thing is just absolutely amazing. You don't need a subscription, you don't need any fancy stuff where you sign up your email, you don't need any complicated technology, and it's got capacity internally and the capability for a fairly large microSD card (roughly 256). On top of all that when you put the microsd card inside of this thing boy does it keep it tightly in there. You will probably need a SIM injector or a paperclip in order to fully insert the MicroSD.It can play audio out loud through its own speakers which are pretty decent and has an equalizer that you can customize. It also has a function to work as a tape recorder but while the quality is good it sounds like the thing is like 6 ft away from you even if it's directly in front of you. It can also play live radio without needing any kind of subscription but in order to do that you'll need to plug the headphones physically into the headphone jack.The best part is that it also provides support for Bluetooth headphones and it's pretty easy to connect.It has several other smaller settings and takes a bit of use to memorize how to navigate the menus. However the fact that it uses a glowing LED backlit digital button interface is really cool. You can play videos on it if you want but it's a tiny screen and I wouldn't recommend that.Standby time for battery is absolutely 100% insane. You just tap the power button once and it'll go into standby and then if you want to turn it on you tap and hold the power button for a few seconds. It has a shuffle feature for music and a randomizer and it even lets you organize your music between the physical storage and microSD.I know most people probably wouldn't think to buy one of these but if you just want something for music this thing is really neat and nifty. It's also roughly the size of a credit card and is very durable and because it's made of glass with metal buttons it feels absolutely bad@$$.I would 100% recommend if not insist that you look for the leather case that goes with this and use that for protection. If you can get a glass screen protector I would recommend that as well. It does a pretty good job if it gets a little wet but it's not water resistant.It also charges via USB c.Ver más

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montycs

21 de julio de 2026

Don’t hesitate to buy and enjoy this player.

For me, this is a great player, but with a few caveats. It took awhile to create playlists,but once I figured it out it was a breeze. The second issue is, the screen is too dim, impossible to see in daylight. The sound quality is great and the battery life is over 90 hrs of playback time. The mp3 feels very solid with the metal body and glass front and back. Overall I’m very happy with this purchase.After using this player, I can’t say enough about it! I’ve been using it for about three hours a day and the battery I still showing over 75%. And with some earbuds the sound is fantastic. Better than my phone for sure.Customer service is great, I’ve made a few inquiries and I get a response very quickly. I enjoy this more than expected..Ver más

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Thomas

16 de diciembre de 2022

If you care about sound quality..

When the player first arrived I was impressed. This thing is solid. (Could be used as a defensive weapon if you were attacked while jogging! You wouldn't want to get hit with it.) Definitely of sturdy build. And it was fully charged.But before doing anything I applied the screen protectors to the front and back of the unit. Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, it's quite difficult if not impossible to apply them without a few air bubbles remaining beneath them. Annoying but not the end of the world.The next step was to pair it with some earbuds. And though I have a few pairs and other Bluetooth equipment, no matter which I chose or what I did, only one channel would play--even though I would get the message from both channels that it had successfully/fully connected.So... After much troubleshooting to make sure the error wasn't mine or with my equipment, I rechecked the manual and found the instructions to email the manufacturer. Thankfully, the long story short is they couldn't have been more helpful, responsive, and gracious. I was immediately promised a free replacement as they felt the fault lay with the unit (a relief to hear) and within a few days the new player arrived. Fortunately it worked without issue, and I found the sound to be excellent. I actually ended up connecting it to some fairly high-end stuff and listened for hours as it was quite enjoyable.The manufacturer also recommended and supplied a software update which provided a number of upgrades and a few fixes, including a customizable EQ. (Much appreciated as the presets, as others have noted, to say the least are less than good.)But truth be told I'm not into bells and whistles. I don't want 5,000 features and crappy audio. And so I'm very happy with the player. If you choose good source material this player will deliver Great sound.And with the capacity now of this and many other players, plus how much you can easily add to this one, there's no reason to even use MP3s or other such formats.Because of limited capacity years ago compression was an absolute necessity. But no matter what may be said or claimed about it, it Always results in at least some loss of quality. Listen for yourself.I've had the great privilege of hearing some of the best audio equipment that money can buy, but I am a relativist. As I've said in other reviews it makes no sense to compare a Ferrari with a Pontiac--even though the Pontiac might be quite good for the money (I drive an old Vibe that has nearly 240,000 miles on it, but it's never broken down, doesn't use oil--literally no more than a few ounces between changes--or other fluids, and still gets over 30 miles per gallon highway. It's reliable and economical, but again it's no super car.) And so at its price point I see the performance of the Z6 in a very positive light.I learned from our correspondence via email that Phinistec is in it for the long haul, and they plan to roll out more models, features, and upgrades this coming year and beyond. And that was good to hear.As for the Z6, I can't stress enough how happy I am with it. What is more important than sound quality when it comes to audio equipment of any kind?Yes, it could use a belt clip, some improvements as far as the interface and so forth, but again much of that is in the works.A great unit if you care about audio...(I did not try the video or ebook features and so forth. Only the player section.)Edit: Forgot to comment on the sound quality of the internal speaker. And I'm trying to be kind here because the manufacturer was so gracious and helpful with resolving the issue with the first player I received... But it's just not good... Suffice to say I wouldn't count on using it for much. Hopefully an update for that is in the works as well.

Alice

31 de enero de 2023

Unresponsive Company

I ordered this after reading reviews that the company was responsive and fixed some bugs and annoyances in the software. This is rare for companies to do this and tells me they stand by their product and want to make the consumer happy and make the product the best it can be. I applaud them for that and they got my business. I was also impressed with the packaging and what the unit came with.This player is built like a tank. It is as heavy as my cell phone which is to be expected since it has heavy batteries in it that give you 90 hours of listening pleasure. I use it for trips and working out. It is probably not good for running unless you strap it to your arm.The sound is great for audiophiles. The player comes with built-in 32 GB. It took about an hour to transfer 500 songs in FLAC format. I also bought a 128 gb high-speed card for it. I have not loaded it yet but will do so via my computer. Note that you will need to format the card to FAT32 format. You will not be able to do this with a Windows Computer. I used a program called Rufus to format the card. I will also transfer FLAC files directly to the card. Also, keep in mind that the speed of your file transfer depends on the hardware you have and the speed of the card itself. The card I have is about 130MB/s. I did a test and put the card it in the player and uploaded it connected to my computer the player. It took about 3 minutes per 40 minutes album worth of songs.I am not sure what people are talking about adding playlists. Maybe this was an issue with older firmware? I use a free program called MusicBee and create my playlists within it. When I connect the player to my computer, BumbleBee automatically acknowledges the Z6 and the extra card I put in it. I set up BumbleBee so that when the player is connected it automatically uploads the songs and whatever playlists I create into the Z6.I am glad the company added an equalizer component. Every set of phones and buds I have sounded completely different and every set of ears are different. EQ is a necessity. It would also be nice if they added auto volume leveling. I know that is asking for a lot at this price point.I am getting ready to go on a 7-hour flight and I am not at all worried about the battery life of this player. My earbuds will give out long before the player will.Some folks are complaining about the price, but to be honest given the responsiveness of the company and how well this thing is built....it is well worth the price.The built-in speaker is okay for listening to such things as audiobooks and playback for things you record. It is annoying for me to listen to music on it. There really needs to be a persistent switch in the software to cut off the speaker. Every time you disconnect your Bluetooth the speaker will play. This is not cool if you are in places like a library.For those having issues with showing album art. I embed album art in each of my files roughly 200x200 pixels. They will then show up on the player. You will need to do this through whatever jukebox software you may use to catalog your songs. Most modern software does this now.Like anything, once you use the player, the controls will become intuitive to you. It's a pocket player, not a $1000 cell phone.The Bluetooth connects fast. I connected this player to 2 cars. Both vehicles connected easily via Bluetooth. I have an older 2011 Lexus with older Bluetooth and a newer Kia with newer Bluetooth. The radio controls on both cars changed songs. The song titles did not show up on either car. This is not an issue with the cars, but an issue with the player not pushing titles via Bluetooth. It would be nice if the unit did this. I did not physically connect the unit to see if song titles would show on my cars.The Bluetooth also connected well to about 5 different headphones and earbuds I used with the player.One thing that totally annoys me is how small the font is on the song titles and they are in dark red on a black background. It is extremely difficult to read and people with sight issues are not going to be able to easily read it. At least make it white or yellow on the black background so it shows up. There is enough screen real estate to make the song titles a larger font that has better readability.Would I buy this product again or give it as a gift? Absolutely.I asked the question, what are the codecs for the AVI/AMV containers? Of course, some dufus answers it's not a video player. They apparently did not read the description and trolls like that are pretty useless.= and should just stay under their bridge,The instructions regarding how to format the video are nonexistent. After fiddling with it and trying 20 converters that did not work and wasted 6 hours of my time trying to figure out the correct formats and which codec it uses, I finally found software from 2012 from another vendor that worked with this player. It may be the same vender, who knows?Do a search on " Ruizu Video Convert Tool " and this will work.This tells me that the software for this player is very outdated and explains why there is no MP4 container built in. It is using some old proprietary Chinese codec that got around licensing issues. Which one? I do not know. I am dinging this product 1 star just for listing that the player plays video as long as it is converted. No, it will not easily convert and the company provides no link or info on where to get the correct software.ps.. Please provide a website so we can download firmware updates instead of relying on someone to email us a file. It would also be cool if you open-source the code on a site like GitHub so some of us can fork it and make cool interfaces for it. This really is really a nice piece of hardware.Note: I am updating my review. Even though this player still works, the company is totally unresponsive. I've emailed them for updates and just get crickets. They assured people that they would provide updates for their software which was old and wonky. They show they have software and firmware updates on their website, but do not provide links and tell you to email their team. They are MIA.

Outposthawaii808

12 de agosto de 2026

Solid unit, good battery, you want an MP3 player, it's here.

I have had this unit now for 24 hours and I really like it so far. It has a very solid feel to it; it has weight and fits in your hand nicely. My windows computer sees it as an external hard drive making it easy to transfer my MP3 files over to it. It does take a little getting use to finding the files as most likely you will send it to the external SD card and not the internal memory, which is fine, just different for someone who is use to having one memory location on a device (very old school user here). You can customize in the settings a lot of what you need. I really wanted to be able to not use my smartphone so much, people are telling me that I am constantly on it, not know what I am doing... Plus I have lost paid for music from the online companies when they lose a license or it just magically despairs, that really upsets me, I have a nice selection of CD's I invested my hard-earned money over the years, and the combination of this powerful and reliable player coupled with my music means to me. 1- No more losing music I paid for. 2- Reduced Smartphone screen time. 3- Unplugging from being constantly connected and reachable for nonsense things. I guess I have gone back to the late 70's early 80's way of listing to music taking our music with us without a phone and tuning out of the connect world. 4- The battery life was a strong selling point to me, yes, you will have people who report shorter batter life in the reviews, but for me so far, it's been excellent. If you have time really look at this device.Ver más

Evan

Cannot organize large volumes of files/tracks even in V1.6.2

The good is:sound quality meets the price point, I hooked this up to a Onkyo receiver with Klipsch R-50 speakers and it sounded goodAlso for the price point the hardware was fine, could be better but for 40$ It is what i expectedLastly the customer service response email is fast (24 hrs every time) and replaces broken units no questions asked, however they are not English speaking so the communication is a bit lost sometimes.Unfortunately when it comes to Firmware that is where it all falls apart. Its a combination of bugginess and poor user interface design.The company tried hard to work through the problems, but ultimately i had to return it. to give a better understanding of why here is the last email i sent to the company:"Dear Phinistec,I'm sorry, but every solution you offered has not improved the issues on the player. The reason I am seeking a music player capable of holding 256gb of files is because I intend to put 10s of thousands of tracks and albums on it, so if the firmware is incapable of organizing them in any reasonable manner then it is useless. I have been patient with this player hoping for a solution, but clearly there is currently not enough experience or understanding of music organisation to build the right firmware.Firstly, In the folders mode there should be no other organisation than alpha/numeric by file and folder name. organizing by timestamp of when it was added to the card has little to no value and creates an issues. The main issue is when loading files a file cache will load multiple files at a single time and if two file start at the same time the smaller of the file will finish loading first before a larger file, so if you drag and drop an album on the card if there is a 2 min song that comes after a 10 min song the 2 min file will load first and therefore be out of order when I try to play album from the file. Another issue with this is, what about when I get a new artist that starts with A and load it onto the card, It will be at the end of the list? This makes no sense, over time any edits you make to your collection will further dis-organize your collection and the only remedy is to delete and reload the entire card, this is not viable.The music function, which is the keystone of a portable music player, is so far from being what it needs to be. There is no reason that the artist function should break up "Jimi Hendrix" into 50 different folders with one song in each, and the Jimi's are not all in a row so there is clearly an issue with alpha/numeric. Also note that the artist data on those tracks was edited as a group so their tags are identical, there is no reason these should not be grouped into the same folder. Also as mentioned in previous email at no point has the player displayed the song name, always displays the file name NOT song name. i.e. 1-02 Sugaree.mp3, instead of SugareeIn the future software needs to be able to read all of the metadata in each file and organised as suchArtist- Album- Disc Number- Track Number- Song Name (from metadata, not file name)Therefore it knows which comes firsti.e. song: Deal, disc: 01 of 02, track: 10 of 10, album: Live 1982, artist: The Grateful Dead. - would come beforesong: Shakedown Street, disc: 02 of 02, track: 01 of 07, album: Live 1982, artist: The Grateful Dead. -This being the first track of the 2nd discThere is also a metadata form for Artist sorting, This is not necessary but does give more customization for how to organize music and is mostly used to solve the problem of "The" and "A". For example if I wanted "The Grateful Dead" to list with the G's instead of the T's, I would fill the artist sorting form with "Grateful Dead" without a "The" and it would be listed in the G's even though the Artist Form Is still labeled "The Grateful Dead" which would still be displayed as the artist label when the tracks are being played.Other features that are important, Ability to keep the files indexed after the player has shut down, in order to prevent the player from having to search for 3-5mins every time it is turned on. The search should only be necessary after editing the card or internal memory or changing the card, but once it searches it needs to be good until a change is made. It is very inconvenient to wait for this search EVERYTIME you turn on the player, this is the only player I've ever owned that does this.I would also add there should be no cap or an extremely high cap on the number of songs that can be organized with the music section, with 256 and 512gb cards it is very easy to have 50,000 to 100,000 songs on a player, I have over 7000 Phish tracks and 12,000 Grateful dead tracks alone. And live music collectors like myself are a huge part of the market for high capacity portable music players, since this volume of live shows is not available on platforms like Spotify etc.In addition to that there's some debugging to iron out such as why you have to open the card folder just to get the artist folder to show anything, this is clearly a bug and not intentional, as well as other little things like album art sometimes show sometimes not etc.Because my confidence in your ability to fix these issues in a timely manner has depleted, I will need to return this player through amazon while my return window is still open, Thanks for understanding.If at some point in the future you feel the firmware has been overhauled and meets these specifications send me an email and I will consider trying your product again. There are a lot of players out there and they all have quality hardware but the firmware is what is lacking in basically all of them. This Quality firmware seems to be the holy grail of a Quality player. The discontinued Apple Ipod Classic had the best Firmware of any MP3 player that i have ever used, and believe me I have used a lot. The Ipod Classic limitations lay in it's fixed HD capacity, which was high in their day but at 160gb is low for today, and also music licensing and PC compatibility make the Ipod unusable for Linux desktop operators like myself. If you could create firmware as streamline as that your player would surely work its way to one of the top rated players out there.This is a different tangent but have you considered a PC software that integrates with your player, so I could load my songs into your PC player first to give more editing capabilities and to see how the file will organize once on the player?Thanks Evan Gamble"Review note, I did not test Bluetooth, record, video, pictures, or the radio.The built in speaker is similar to an older Iphone, not great, but its useful for troubleshooting audio output, and can be used for white noise to get a baby to sleep.