Just recently purchased this product and so far have been very impressed with this player. In fact, I have used many, many different MP3 players for swimming. I swim almost two miles a day and could not get through the boring cadence without the help of music and I have found that this is the best player with all the features that are important to me.
The volume is key, many players just can't be turned up loud enough to compensate for the water and the ability to feel the buttons (who cares about a screen when you have the player on the back of your head) to move forward/backward is fantastic. Yes, the controls and the limited options are simplistic but that is exactly what you need when your doing serious lap swimming and cannot fiddle with controls. The price is excellent on this product as well. Loading the music is simple as well, just pop it on the old PC and voila, it is a flash drive. No hassle with some stupid music file program like other asinine players. I loaded about 1600 songs and still haven't filled memory. I really like the way it clips as well, you clip it to the back of your goggles.
However I haven't used the ear buds at all, so can't vouch for them. But the H20 short cord ear buds really sound well combined with this excellent player. I have found that the biggest weakness for any underwater MP3 players are the ear pieces. If you are kicking against a wall when making that reverse very few ear buds can take that pressure. The H20 Surge Plus (short Cord for lap swimming) ear buds and the H2O X1's are excellent but pricey, you can check out my reviews there. These additional ear buds are an investment but they do a great job underwater.
The key feature on this product is the shuffle feature and the ability to play a set playlist in the proper order. I use that shuffle feature when I get bored with my playlist but the other key feature with this product is that it will play your playlist if you put numbers in front of the name. I use a simple free Windows program called Rename that will automatically add numbers to the name of songs I want to hear, in whatever numerical order I want them to play and this player will play them in that order. It also will pick up from that last song the was played previously the next time you turn on the player. (It's a simple feature, but actually have had players that go back to the first song in the list after the player was turned off.)
Also some helpful tips on using waterproof ear buds:
1. Start with the larger ear bud rubber ends first then work your way down to the smaller sizes if that doesn't fit. If you use the larger sizes, you get a tighter barrier against the water.
2. You should consider wetting the ear buds lightly in the water before you place them in your ear, it seems to keep them more secure in your ear for some reason.
3. When you insert them in your ear pull back the top of your ear with your opposite hand, that will stretch it and allow the ear canal to gently wrap snugly around the ear bud.
It is rare when the water enters the ear canal if you take these three steps you can enjoy the music much better. Once water gets in your ear you are hosed for the rest of the swim and that goes for any ear piece. Hope this helps been buying all sorts of waterproof MP3 for years since they first came out and believe me went through the gamut on these and read many dumb reviews, so I hope this sheds lights on these products and helps. Happy swimming!
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He was happy with the gift
I got this as a gift for one of those people in your life that had everything. They have to use a public indoor pool for swimming that is also used for physical therapy so in order to drown out the sound he wanted one of these. He was happy with the gift.
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