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Entered CNET Catalog: 08/01/2003
SKU: CW300
Manufacturer: COWON America
Manufacturer description
Featuring a unique compact solid-state aluminum design, iAUDIO CW300 ensures skip free music, maximum portability and durability. The world-class JetAudio's MP3 technology produces rich and superb sounds so you can enjoy a variety of effects by adjusting 4 kinds of user Equalizer settings (Bass, Treble, Loudness, and Dynamic bass). With the adjustable "Dynamic Bass" technology exclusively developed by iAUDIO, you will enjoy true bass sounds. In addition to the MP3 playback the professional voice-recording facility provides you with the function of recording important notes, meetings or lectures. You can also save them to your PC for playback later on. The high fidelity recording mode will ensure your recordings are perfectly clear. You can use 2 different record modes of HQ, UHQ. With its superb FM stereo radio receiver, (probably the best on the market) you can listen to the FM radio and record it at the same time. It supports 24 preset channels and a variety of sound settings enabled by the equalizer. The high-resolution backlit graphic LCD supports many languages including Korean, English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese etc. It displays all the information including title, playtime, ID3 v1/v2 tag, etc.Product summary
The good: Svelte, streamlined design; excellent sound; hassle-free operation; voice and FM recording; optional in-line remote; included armband.
The bad: The 128MB of memory is not expandable; FM recording uses a proprietary file format; flimsy battery-compartment door.
The bottom line: This slim and elegant player is easy to use and sounds great--for two hours of music.
User opinions
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8/10
Great Sound, Ok build but bad design
Pros: Sound, Base, AA Battery
Cons: Buttons, Battery Cover, Screen, FM Signal, Format of VR
The buttons are not good to use, battery cover is very easy to break and its just hold together by a nanometer plastic, seen can crack easily and the format of VR force you to use Cowon's software
User Rating: 
9/10
A very impressive mp3 player.
Pros: This thing is light, tiny, and has a battery life of close to 30 hours on a single AA battery. I learned all the controls within 10 minutes and this is my first mp3 player ever. I liked all the things it came with too [e.t. the case, earbuds, necklace,
Cons: The USB slot is hard to use if the player is in its case. I haven't tested it recording quality so I won't comment in this area.
User Rating: 8/10
One of the best By Far
Pros: Great Sound, Easy To Use, Looks Professional, lots of extras come with it
Cons: I emailed the company cause i lost the USB cable, they said they would help me and i keep emailing them but they never write back.
User Rating: 9/10
Perfect All Around
Pros: I first came across the iAudio CW300 while searching for digital voice recorders. Needless to say, the CW300 128 performs perfectly as a voice recorder, picking up most sounds clearly through its two settings: HQ (High Quality) and UHQ (Ultra High Quality
Cons: The only drawback I can see is that the jog controls are a bit tricky to get used to (at least for me). But after a bit of usage they proved to be efficient and quick.
User Rating: 9/10
WoW! This is good!
Pros: Very good design, high quality, rich sound, complete menu, etc,etc. Impossible not to like. I had an iRiver before. That was OK, but iAudio is the one and only!
Cons: None
User Rating: 
1/10
I'm sure it would be a great player if it worked
Pros: Packaged nicely for easy return to where you bought it
Cons: Purchased one from Buy.com on the recommendation of the reviewers here and was real excited to receive it. Got it, loaded a few songs on it and it was all downhill from there. I put the earphones in and not only was the sound in and out in both ears, but
User Rating: 9/10
Best sounding mp3 player around
Pros: Since I got the CW300 a week ago, I still can't believe just how amazing this player is. It's small, slim, very easy to use and sounds incredible. Reviews have stated this is the best sounding mp3 player around - its hard not to agree on this one as it so
Cons: The earphones aren't briliant but when does one ever get given decent earphones with their audio equipment?
User Rating: 9/10
Great sound in a quality package
Pros: GREAT sound, good battery lifetime, load enough output, easy to use, tunable, superb voice recording, all in a high quality package. There is also a bundle of nice accessories. There has also been a few firmware updated to be downloaded.
Cons: Special software is needed, not a big issue but... The needed (included) software is good and easy to use. JetAudio has also recently opened a new forum, but their support is still not quite as good as the iRiver, well as it seems...
User Rating: 8/10
Great mp3
Pros: -Great sound superb and crisp sound for mp3 -Solid build solid build with no visible screws -Great equalizer great diffferent and can define your own even in JAZZ and ROCK -Long hours aleast more than 20 hrs depends on which brand of battery u use -
Cons: -Low SNR FM reception has low snr till it does not state in the spec.. noise in every channel unless u get a very very very long earphone -limited folder can only have four folder cannot create folder cannot exceed the 64 songs in each folder -Cannot up
User Rating: 9/10
SUPERB PLAYER
Pros: THE GOOD: SUPER HIGH QUALITY SOUND user friendly graphical interface compact and lightweight super long playing hours for one AAA battery SUMMARY: I bought my very first MP3 player which is CW300(256mb) for about three months now and i am so satisfied
Cons: Should have an expansion slot for memory upgrade.
User Rating: 8/10
Audiophile's choice of flash players
Pros: 1. MP3 decoding is via hardware, not software. Hence sound quality is on a par with the best HDD-based players (!) like Creative Zen, and much better than any other flash-based player I've heard. 2. Portability and form factor are excellent; although the
Cons: 1. Workaround (undocumented) is required to upload MP3 files from player back to PC. 2. Upgrading the firmware may add/enhance functions, they cannot add support for file formats not native to the hardware decoder (e.g., WMA, Ogg Vorbis, or Audible)
User Rating: 9/10
Great One. Wrong Review
Pros: Review does not mention 256MB / 512MB models. Regarding to JetAudio website, 512MB model will be sold from Sep. They are already selling 256MB model !! CW300 features Incredible sound quality of MP3 playback with FM tuner, Highly-customizable EQ, hi-qua
Cons: No WMA playback. No USB Mass storage support.
User Rating: 9/10
If you don't want gigs, get this player!!
Pros: I'm just gonna rattle: 256MB model - plenty for me, small, lightweight, very sturdy with excellent build quality, nice screen & cool backlight, firmware upgradeable, fully featured with EQ (yes, there's a user programmable setting, plus jazz, rock, et
Cons: I paid extra for the remote which I haven't found a use for. Nice remote though!
User Rating: 9/10
GREAT MP3 Player; Bad Review
Pros: How does the reviewer rationalize giving this player a "7" on features, when the previous model received an 8?. He doesn't even mention the 256MB version available!! You get an incredible sounding MP3 player w/ FM player, 4-option equalizer, Voice Recorde
Cons: a bit expensive, but high quality jutifies it.
User Rating: 
10/10
This mp3 player rocks
Pros: Size is really small and compact. Few buttons make operating very easy. And the price was the real key for me.
Cons: None that I can think of.
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