What we love most about the Cowon iAudio G2 is its crisp, clean audio quality with well-defined highs and lows; the included earbuds are better than what typically comes with MP3 players. Even better, the iAudio G2 has a wealth of audio adjustments, including six EQ presets and a five-band user-defined mode, as well as BBE, Mach3Bass, MP Enhance, 3D Surround, and Pan effects. Plus, it supports line-in and voice recording, and it captures to the MP3 format. Recorded sound quality is, again, excellent.
We can forgive Cowon for excluding the FM tuner, but downgrading to a USB 1.1 connection was an odd choice for a 1GB player. As a result, file-transfer speeds averaged only 0.7MB per second, a very slow rate in the day and age of USB 2.0. The company claims as much as 40 hours of continuous playback from a single AA battery for the iAudio G2--an impressive figure, though less than the G3's rated life of 50 hours (37 hours according to CNET Labs). CNET Labs was able to muster only 17 hours per battery, way below the company's rating, so beware.
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