

For Play Settings you have Play Mode, Resume Mode, Playback Gap, Max Volume, Default Volume, Fixed Volume Setting, Balance, Equalizer, and Play Through Folders. From the home screen you have five screen choices that can be accessed by swiping the Scroll icon Browse Files, Category, Recording, Play Settings, and System Settings. To unlock the device after you turn it on or wake from screen off, you can either hit the Wake button again or swipe up the Scroll icon. On the touchscreen panel you have five backlit functions, Menu, Return, Back, Forward, and Scroll/Enter. On the bottom are the 3.5mm headphone jack, the micro SD card slot and the micro USB port. On the left side of the player are three tactile buttons, Power/Wake, Volume, and Play/Pause. Inside the outer white picture box is a black box containing the Player encased in a silicone skin and two smaller boxes containing the paperwork and a USB cable. But there the similarity ends, the FiiO M3K employs an Ingenic X1000E processor and an AK3476A DAC capable of playing up to 32-bit/384kHz PCM files, as well as DSD, CUE and LRC, and in a truly unique move it can also record via an incorporated microphone the M3K will also operate as an asynchronous USB DAC and supports USB OTG, and of course the M3K has a full GUI, with half of its face dedicated to a 2.0 inch IPS display and the other half capacitive touchscreen controls.Īs one would expect from such a modestly priced product, the M3K comes in a fairly simple package. Things have come a long way since that first player, but some things haven't changed, the M3K is still tiny, a little over three and a half inches long and one and three quarters wide and about half an inch thick, and it still uses a memory card for storage, albeit quite a bit smaller in size and quite a bit larger in storage capacity, up to 2TB should they become available.


It was about the same size, though it lacked any kind of display much less a GUI, and it fitted a 10Mb SD card (rather than a micro SD card) and it was called an mp3 player because it couldn't play anything else mostly because a single wav file would be larger than its available storage. T he FiiO M3K brings to mind my first mp3 player.
