MECHEN M30 HiFi MP3 Player 64GB DAC Decoding DSD Gray | WM8965 DAC+TI Amp, MP3/WMA/WAV/APE/FLAC/AAC, 1500mAh 25H, 2" Screen, Expand to 512GB, Zinc Alloy Shell

I have given this player 5 stars because it suits me perfectly. The down side for some people may be its weight (it’s not dreadful but heavy for such a small object), but it hasn’t bothered me. The sound quality is excellent but the very best feature for me is that it has real, physical buttons to press for playback controls. Why is that important? With a little practice you can change tracks, vol up, vol down, start, pause etc with the player in your pocket. You don’t need to look at a screen to use these controls. It’s great for walking and podcasts! So if you are looking for a solidly built, easy to use player that you don’t need to put on your glasses every time you want to replay or change volume etc this could be for you. As I have said, as a walking companion it’s perfect for me.

Does everything I wanted. I've gotten big into lossless audio and this did the job well as a portable player. The SD card it came with wasn't reading at first, pop it out, put it back in, easy works fine aftwards. The sound is good, the controls are intuitive, and while the menus are a little clumsy and slow to get around, it does the job perfectly fine considering it's really just for music. Easy to go by album or by folder and play what I wanted, even if not as fast as other methods on other devices. A little frustrating the device won't appear on my computer when plugged in with USB, so in order to load up the SD card with music I had to transfer them from a device that could read the SD card directly, maybe something to keep in mind if you intend to pick one up. Good device, feels well built, good tactile controls. Not perfect, but does everything it should as well as you could want it to.

This is a great little player with surprisingly impressive audio quality for the price. It handles lossless files very well and delivers a clean, balanced and detailed sound that I genuinely didn’t expect at this budget. One of the real strengths here is the customer support. It’s genuinely first-rate. I’ve contacted them a couple of times — not due to any fault, but for guidance on getting the best performance and understanding how the player handles files and folders. They replied quickly, clearly, and actually knew what they were talking about. This is my second M30 (my first one from March 2023 was recently damaged by water), and the support has been consistently excellent. The player itself is very well made: solid, nicely weighted and with buttons that feel positive and precise. The scroll wheel is especially useful for fast navigation through large libraries. A useful note for anyone with big music collections: using folder browsing and genre browsing allows far more tracks to be accessed than the “All Songs” mode does. And it works on a branded 512GB microSD card well. The Amazon description should be updated to say it supports 512GB. Overall: great sound, compact size, very strong value for money, and rare to find support this responsive these days. Highly recommended.

I'm convinced this player has a lineage, if only a lineage among budget HD audio players. The wheel, dual DACs and software similarities (replete with the same quirk) make it feel reminiscent of the now unavailable Bassplay P3000, to the extent that I believe the same architecture or employees have to be involved somewhere. I purchased the P3000 in 2018 and it served me well for years. I've now repurchased this item, the Mechen, to replace the identical item I lost 6 months ago, so I guess that's enough of a sign that it gets my endorsement. I'm a metal fan and I like to listen to music in a great amount of detail at borderline unsafe volumes. This device drives my 32 ohm headphones with power to spare, especially after I set the line level to 0db. Sound quality is excellent and I don't believe I'm missing out on much that people experience from players at 10x the price. These players simply undercut the entire market and get right to the heart of what an old school fan of portable music devices from the 2000s wants: good quality sound, no nonsense operation, file transfer that you can do at a mouseclick (it shows up as a Windows drive so you can drag and drop). If you're interested in other things like how it interfaces with third party software, bluetooth, gapless playback, visuals, etc. then I have no clue. Perhaps there are better choices in that case, no doubt more expensive. I mentioned a quirk in the software: as mentioned in some other reviews and also present in the old P3000, folders will show up in the browsing interface in the order they're copied over, rather than alphabetically. I saw a suggestion on this page that this might be remedied with a tool or some update? I can't confirm that because I don't really have to deal with it. I rarely add new music to my device. When I do add music, I'm in the habit of putting all the album/artist folders in a parent folder and dragging that folder onto the player - when you do this, Windows copies it all over in alphabetical order anyway. Everything neat and tidy, if you need it. The wheel also feels superior to the one on the old P3000, which loosened and became imprecise after a year or so. This one feels tighter, but in any case you don't need it. Everything is navigable and operable by the face buttons alone, if you share my preference for that.

With 58 year old ears and tinnitus caused by too many loud concerts and playing in bands, I don't think I qualify as an audiophile, but I like decent sound quality. And this device delivers that. It's also solid and well built although the screen is easy to scratch. However the interface is awful, even archaic, and it doesn't support gapless playback so if you listen to classical pieces that move from one track to the next seamlessly, or live albums, it's very frustrating. It's supposed to recognise cue files but it doesn't. There's a prolonged gap between the end of one track and the start of the next, I guess because it has the processing power of a saucepan and reads from an SD card. It has headphones out and line out for an amp, but not a 4.4mm balanced out.. if it was half the price it would be one to take out and if it got lost ..oh well, but I don't think it's worth the asking price here. So I returned it

worked ok for an mp3 player with nice construction but let down by noisy crackly minin jack outputs. Why can't they make ones with a proper 6.3mm, less problematic.

Looks and feels really nice, sound quality is fantastic. The user interface let's it down for me, it seems a bit clunky and not well thought through. Just a little adjustment to the size and placement of the select button would be a great improvement. The instructions are difficult to read without a good magnifying glass as are most modern instruction books. Overall I like it but would I buy another? Probably not. The SD card provided that I had spent a lot of time adding music files too just stopped functioning after two weeks. Fine I bought another SD card, and it works perfectly so far.

Only had a days use so far...but....this player is absolutely awesome! Was VERY surprised at how solid it feels, it has a weighty feel to it and all the buttons click nicely, it's easy to use and mine is quite fast around the menus etc. Overall build quality seems great especially for the price...the sound quality, oh boy....get a decent set of headphones and put a decent flac file on it and it is amazing! The music is detailed, but smooth, there is nice separation between instruments and the vocals are great, I have my bose quietcomfort connected to it wired( if you have same bose headphone make sure you power it on even though your wired) and have set the equaliser to soft as it boosts the mids and treble slightly and this player beats my old and more expensive Sony hi res player for sound, metal like megadeth sound particularly good on this player but I'm also enjoying hiphop on it. The volume gets LOUD, I only need it on 40 out of 100 max and that is loud enough for me on this player with these bose headphones, ( again if you have bose wireless headphones, make sure you turn volume up on the headphones and then on the player to get best volume) I'm VERY surprised and happy all round with this player, it will please audiophiles with its sound, especially on metal but like I say, hiphop is also great, time will tell if it lasts but I hope it does, it feels like it will . 5/5 from me

This mp3 player exceeded my expectations! The in-built DAC delivers high quality audio, even through my Sennheisers. The ability to group tracks into playlists on the device is very handy. Thoroughly enjoyable device experience. A+++

Great mp3 player. No wifi or bluetooth brain fog included. Just a very good music player. Loud and good sound. Recommended.

Companheiro de Viagem

exactly as described and exactly what I wanted, no frills or unnecessary features, no input or output signals (bluetooth, wifi, ect). Just plays music and does it well, simple to set up, organize and press play without needing to interact further. Even has a sleep timer as an added bonus. has multiple equalizer presets along with a custom set. Great size and surprisingly weighty , all the buttons feel great and responsive, easily memorized so that you can press what you need without having to look at the device. easy to navigate menu's. the sound quality is great playing FLAC and WAV files. Im yet to see the battery deplete beyond half way through regular use sometimes hours on end. Really no complaints.

I purchased this player specifically because it does NOT have more modern features like touch screen and wifi and bluetooth. Every time I use my phone for stuff like this it seems like you touch it the wrong way and it just annoys me being so touch sensitive ugghhh... I just wanted a simple player with a good interface that is intuitive to load all my folders of albums. I have probably close to the max of 256gb of music on my computer, recorded vinyl records and ripped CD's and I wanted to get better sound than a phone. There are phones that have good sound but not for this price. I hook this up to an Aomais bluetooth speaker with a stereo cable in, and also bring it into the car the same way, through the AUX port. There is nothing wrong with a solid player, and it feels solidly made, that is like a walkman I use to have. The interface is intuitive and pretty simple, and I have nothing bad to say about it. Are there other players that cost more and have better sound? Sure, but the difference isn't much. The thing is, standards are up these days and what you can get at this price point is great. You want the highest quality, which is only marginally better? You'll pay way more for that. And besides that, most sound can be EQ'd so for clear reproduction of whatever it is you ripped into digital, this will be perfectly fine. Small enough for your pocket, even though it has some weight, and it won't just go do whatever it wants if you touch it the wrong way. No stupid android to deal with or bluetooth connectivity problems etc etc...Just fun listening. It comes with a 64gb card, and that holds a ton even with all my files being flac. If I lost this tomorrow I'd get another one right away, I'm not going to pay 500 for something that has features I don't need or want. Simple is good, and it also has a line level out for when I get my stereo receiver set up to input this into. The ONLY negative here for this, is that they haven't upgraded the micro USB to a USB C which is a newer standard so hopefully they'll upgrade that at some point and maybe a higher capacity transfer/charge cable but you can always pull the card out and use a faster reader and reinstall the card. Thanx Mechen!