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Continuing with our reviews of Digital,
Portable MP3 players, today we are looking at Best Data's Cabo MP3
player. The reason for such a hefty price is because of its built
in, high-speed 64MB of flash me mory.
It is around the same price as other 64MB MP3 players on the market,
such as Creative Labs Nomad.
Why are companies producing MP3
players? Simply because MP3 compression has become so popular
and its use has become widespread globally.
Here is a brief description of MP3 compression if you haven't heard
much about it: MP3 (MPEG Layer 3) compression is one of the
best compression algorithms around which allows us to reduce the
size of digital audio files to a small enough size to store many of
them conveniently and listen to them
with very little loss of quality. Most people, will not even
be able to tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 file, but the
difference in file size is huge. A typical full length song in
.wav format can take from 40 to 60 MB where as the same MP3 file
will be under 5MB. MP3's have very little drawbacks;
they are small, sound great and are relatively easy to find on the
net. In fact the only drawback is the lack of
portability. You don't always want to be listening to your favorite
music in front of your computer, do you? With the advent of
these portable players, you won't have to.
Here are the specs for the Best Data Cabo MP3
Player.
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- Frequency:
20Hz ~ 20KHz
- S/N
Ratio: 90dB
- 24Kbps
- 256 Kbps Bit Rate support
- Output:
Earphone 5mW x 2
- File Transmission : up
to 1.3Mbps
- LCD Display:
Indicated Song Title, artist and playing time of
each MP3 track as well as battery life, mode and
function key status.
- Telephone Directory:
Stores up to 250 telephone numbers
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Lets face it, these specs are pretty
amazing. Obviously, this is one of the better players on the
market. With a maximum of 96MB of storage space, you can fit
quite a bit of audio on this player. The 1.3 Mbps file transfer
rate is what I like best about this player. If you read our
review of the Pine D'music, you will have noticed how slow it was in
downloading MP3's to the player. Indeed this players wipes the
floor with speed, as you'll see on the next page. Here is a
picture of the front and back of the player with all the controls
labeled:
As you can gather from the picture, the
player has a lock/hold switch which allows you to lock all the buttons
when a song is playing so that you don't accidentally press stop or fast
forward. When the player is off and you put it on lock, the player
will not turn on so you will not accidentally waste battery power.
Best Data also provided a sliding door which protects the data port from
dust and/or damage. Excellent extra features, lets move on and
examine the software, file transmission times and sound quality...
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