I have D2 for over a year already and I have yet to find a similar size portable DAP with better sound quality. The user interface is not the best, but it is very fast. Firmware updates are released frequently, but they add useless features and fail to fix some long-existing tags and playlist bugs. My main complain is that multiple Playlists support is non-existent, if like me, you connect your D2 using MSC to avoid dealing with any DRM issues. If you connect the player using MTP you get "some" Playlist support, but you have to deal with DRM. There is a single Dynamic Playlist (DPL) that works while connected via MSC/MTP. The D2 also has an external SD slot that allows one to add additional storage to grow your portable library using SDHC cards. I paired my D2 with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro IEMs and I'm very happy with the sound of this combination. At the time of my purchase I tested several "portable" DAPs and none came close to matching the quality of sound of the D2 or its battery life. I have a total of 20GB in my D2 (4GB internal and 16GB in a SDHC card) It is a compact player that supports a wide variety of audio (lossy & lossless) formats and also supports video. I find that using lossless formats is a bit of "overkill" for compact DAPs that have a limited amount of storage. When I travel I like to have as much music (variety) with me as possible. Using lossless format with the current storage limitation of compact-flash-based DAPs would greatly diminish the amount of tracks that I can carry with me. My main library for use for my home stereo system is lossless (FLAC). I used dBpowerAMP batch converter using the latest LAME encoder to build a secondary (portable) MP3 libray from my FLAC library. The dBpowerAMP batch converter is flexible, easy to use and on Dual Core computer is very fast. Select all the songs you want to convert, click convert and walk away. I set Lame to convert using Quality (VRB) -V2 "standard". I'm very happy with the number of MP3 tracks I can fit in my D2 and with the quality of sound resulting using the LAME encoder settings above.
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