Thread: Cowon iAudio 74GB

Cowon's always been preferred by music lovers on the go for one reason-sound quality. Their PMPs have always been regarded as works of art, and the iAudio 7 is true to the heritage. A piano black (smudge magnet!) finish, four beautifully backlit buttons on the front bezel and a host of attractive matte-chromed buttons on the right side add to the looks and retain total functionality. The tiny iAudio 7 feels solid in hand-build quality is exemplary.

A 1.3 inch, 18-bit colour (262 K) screen allows for 7 lines of text and looks crisp, but a video player this is not-in our opinion a video player needs to have a much larger screen. There are numerous little features-direct line-in recording from multiple sources like CD players, TVs etc, a clock with alarm and support for scheduled recordings, FM radio and lyrics display support.





The music quality is-in a word-terrific! With great clarity and deep bass that sounds tight, mids and highs are also very prominent. Most PMPs have a tendency to highlight bass and mute trebles-not here. The iAudio 7 brings out the best of instrumentals and we thoroughly enjoyed out sessions with Vanessa Mae and Kenny G-in fact the iAudio 7 is very suitable to classical stuff-all Bhimsen Joshi aficionados take note. Vocals are well defined too we tried a variety of artists from The Doors to Alan Jackson and Charlotte Church. No complaints, except you'd better get yourself a good set of earbuds-like Creative's EP630 or Bose's Intra Ears¬maybe even a noise cancelling set.

The default earplugs are better than most regular stuff-and easily kill the IPod's bundled earplugs-but the mid-range seems a touch recessed. Of course how much you want to spend on cans depends on how serious you are about your music. This tiny player drives most headphones¬except for audiophile grade headphones which are real high-impedance stuff.To be honest, we'd reckon Cowon's own 02 and Apple's iPod Video and Nano would just squeak ahead on sheer music quality-but the difference isn't much.

dude again i must say ...............ITS A KILLER GADGET MAN ,,,,,,,,,.
Due get this in INDIA And for how much?????????