Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Just got this today from a big box store in Portland. I've only been using it for 4 hours. I * was * going to buy from Amazon but for some reason the projected delivery time was 3 weeks from now, that was too long for my purposes. I didn't want to go Apple. I wanted at least 16 GB. This is 14.1 GB formatted which is not surprising. PROs: It's teeny tiny. It may be smaller than some Apple Ipod Nanos. Minimal controls but the menus seem to be well thought out. You attach it and "it's just a drive" - no iTunes crapola to deal with. I drag and drop MP3 folders with band /album titles and pre-named/numbered MP3 file and I'm good to go. (I have Microsoft Windows 7 Pro computer operating system). I get good sound with my Sony MDR-300 headphones (cost $22.50 , 24 ohms impedance 1 kHzSensitivity (db) : 102 dB/mW Is capable of putting out more volume that I can stand. CONs: File copy is fairly slow. But once you do inital setup and copy, that's not so bad. While it will drive my larger 63ohm Sony studio "cans" headphones - it does not produce a good sound with them. Bass on the larger headphones is weak / unsatisfying. So I'm not using those headphones with this - was hoping to do so for plane flight travel. The EQ is fairly limited 5 band. Doesn't have a lot of precision or major change effect. Yes it does "something", it's just kind of minimal. The instructions for how to actually , fully shut this MP3 player down (powered off) are a bit cryptic. They say it goes into "standby". It may be that it never shuts off in the normal pull the plug NO Power sense. It's do able, you put it on pause and then hold down Option button for awhile. I guess a better way of saying this is the manual is minimal. ________________________________ Other info: Charges by USB to mini-USB male connector. 2 hours for full charge. Built in, non-user replaceable battery. Overall you get a compact system. I'll report back later on how long a charge lasts and durability. NOTE: You can supposedly play back pictures and movies with this. It does display the MP3 album graphics fairly clearly. I didn't buy it for video/still display, can't speak to that. I have put many albums of MP3s on here and still have 4GB of space remaining. If you can swing it, buy at least a device with at least 16GB pre-formatted storage. That gives you enough to cover a lot of moods/ genres of music without being forced to delete this to make room for that. Currently listening to Moody Blues "In Search of the Lost Chord" - it sounds good / satisfying. I give this a solid 4 stars at this time of initial impression. _____________________________________________________________ UPDATE: 7/22/2016 I eventually moved onto a Fiio X3-II with a Sandisk 128GB SDXC micro-flash card. That's 2.7X the cost of this Sony unit but, for me, it was a "must do" Reason: I had so many song files, I needed a bigger playground. The Fiio is in a totally different league - and should be. I will say the Sony got me through earlier times at a reasonable expense.