Amoi or Yescool C10

Not very long ago I was with a friend discussing for a mp3 player He seen mine Ruizu and was very much interested n it and immediately given it for some money by keeping the external memory.A noticed  in a previous post my first Ruizu was damaged from continuous connects and disconnects as it was not recognized by the win10 system. Fortunately a nearby Computer Repairman's with his main PC identified the  player and he did a backup for me tranfwring all the contents in an external micro SD card

I found this Amoi via Ali via the only seller at only 24Eu  The original price as noticed i is page was 46Eu (?) for the 8GB model THis so low price made me immediately making the order last year (Sept 2020) It has been reached me in around 2.5 months via Ali's standard  shipping . Quite slower than other shipping facilities as Yanwen or China post 

A few days after buying the piece the price arisen to 33 out of  the presumably original 48....

Mini description 

 

As you can see the forepart consist of some basic buttons with the wheel addition that does as a typical wheel on the Nintaus: movimg to previous or next song scrolling across the song directory, changing audio volume etc

The model is quite heavy weighting at 150gram  (and the heacvier tested so far ) and is metal made ! I m sure that you can use it as a brick to hit someone if you like !As you can see from the photo it is quite thick at 6 mm 

 

This is the main screen while playing showing the ID3 info, the time in both graphical way on the bottom and with big letters . You can see also the VU meter. This is exactly as as the fake spectrum analyzer of all Ruizu models tested so far. I cannot understand why they do that 

 

 

Left  part has a mechanical LOCK button that operates only in operation or playback mode In other words  if you the button is on LOCK  you can still start the mp3 player!!There is a reset button , the SD card in the the new design and the USB 

The earphones plug and a microphone plug for karaoke! I have not tested the microphone plug so far .

this is the volume control plus a AB repeat control . Once you press one of these buttons yu can use the wheel to control the volume 

This is the volume control screen . very similar to the Ruizu models 

 In order to change between he inner memory and the external you have to use this option from the settings menu The seller advised me for is option 

Typical to most players when refreshing the inner contents the player can search all musical files. thi can be  time consuming if you have hundreds or thousands of files.This can happen always if you fill the inner memory with music . Mine as with only 8 GB 

Operation : 

i will try to be as short as possible in my review and tests 

Formats supported : MP3 , WMA, WAV, OGG , M4A , FLAC , MQA FLAC and  APE are  supported Not fully supported are ALAC and AAC (mono channel ) DSD files are not recognized
5.1 FLAC are not supported

File scripts supported : Thai Greek and Chinese characteres are fully supported : files /ID3 tags

Sound    It is similar to the Ruizu (trebly) but treblier than Nintaus 

VU meter is fake . its shows only two waving bars as with Ruizu

3 clicks are required to operate a button !  Nintaus and all remain models work with one click (button press ). 

Ruizu X02 shown fast counting in the blank starts on MP3 and  WMA files . The same happens with Amoi but not in Nintaus 

As in the  photo above, the volume control is very similar to the Ruizu. Too loud  as the Ruizu 

Lock button works only  when in playback . I could prefer if the Lock could totally isolate the player when it is off

Quite big  screen text with  4 lines. Chinese text is read very clear 

As in result:
-I think that this model is made from the same company as Ruizu , unless they use the same  OS Audio quality or fidelity is the same .This can increase my tinnitus faster than usual  (<3/5)
-It requires the triple process or clicks to operate and change files  (2.5/5)
-οperating time: 60.5 hours   this is the longest player, with NIntaus as second at 55  hours Tested with a series of 1 hr recordings in 3 mode formats and left till it stopped from battery drain   (5/5)
-Original price is quite good (4/5)

Rating : 3/5 Nintaus is still my preference  (4/5)

 

 

Testing a friends Nintaus X10s MP3 model

Or YESCOOL X50

The ribbon cover was offered free of charge but separate from the pleyer box inside the parcel!

AS  most times, I do a service to many people by just  direct importing for them and then just making a short review before giving to them. Just look on the remain web page  to see on how many models have been already tested so far . older models were tested long ago the time i was a Multiply.com  member which page has bot been fully transferred so far here .This is a neighbor who has a string interest in high quality or fidelity audio systems as he was involved around 30 years ago 

Model  has been found via Ali with a price of around 45 EU plus only 2 for shipping with a total of 2 months of waiting.  

This will a short review by showing  the most interesting of the model 

 

The model is a rather complex in terms of operation   and screen  regarding to any others i have tested so far: Prev /naxt menu back /pause and volume buttons and roller that tis quite weird . Wheel is also used of the menu , volume and back buttons  instead of the prev/next buttons for faster access

As noticed in the main page the model is upgraded.

Fist lets see a bit on the model and its layout in the other sides 

On off button is used also for locking the player. Audio out is 0db and is programmable from the menu for 0 ,and db levels. Using car mode that supposedly normalizes the audio levels have seen no real difference

Here is the bottom that shown the USB connection and the USB socket isolated. For unknown reason the socket was not only isolated by the mini plastic lid but also by a sticker above A 16GB  original Japanese SD card is used as main memory as the player lacks inbuilt memory!

And here is the real inside. I m not very sure why they double isolated the slot Once  i reinserted the memory the player started alone and did a memory refresh. Another time i tested removing and re-inserting the card but nothing happened. Surely the first time the player was on... 

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 This is the main screen for the file playback :

Screen has good analysis . As you see on the left includes the album photo if available  and basic ID3 tags plus the file mode . Text Scrolls leftwards in case text is long.

In menu mode all operations are shown either by the wheel or by the prev/next buttons

This is the volume control as shown in  the screen . The 60 is the standard but depending on the recorded volume. in most cases (-2db recordings) it is a fair volume that does not annoy the ears
 

This is the only way to play a  file you selected the time another song is played. OPerated either by wheel or by prev next buttons !

There are many other interesting operations and typical to all players that I will not go further (off time , sleep , refresh ,  favorites etc ) I wll only show  the results of my usual tests on operation and audio quality

Part 2 operation 

This model is audio file rich as is offered with 15  files of these various modes with pop Chinese music full clips plus one to test your left and right channels!

WMA , MP3, AIFF ,WAV, FLAC ,OGG , APE. ALAC 

I replaced the offered mini earbuds with mine AKG518 foor the best experience . They are very good for their size  with manual voice slider Good  for Tescun radios which have a stepped volume control with rather low toleracnes

The songs offered in the inbuilt SD memory sound exceptional and flat with nearly natural sound. Much better then my personal song collection from original cassetes or downloaded Malay songs

Her are the results of checking various file formats

-MP3 and various bit rates all played
-WMA  the same.
-OGG various  bit rates the same
-MP2 played smoothly in mono . most other players speedup with funny tuning as like siren!
-MP4 played  in low quality and mono
-AAC the same with MP4
-AIFF supported but not by the remain players as Ruizu or older
-APE   FLAC and MQA-FLAC also supported 
-DSD  64kb 2.8MB and 256 11.2 MB supported The 256 mode is heard at 1/2 of the main speed
-Stereo MQA FLAC supported
-5.1 surround versions not supported  For these versions We have downloaded test audios from a site . Very huge files with a total of 600 MB of size

-Create playlist refreshes all audio tracks similar to iPod and SanDisk operation Classification does what other players do with Indo derived from ID tracks There is also a favorite mode with 3 on the go listings

-The player has not internal memory.
-There are two player setting for audio volume: line level with audio synch/-3/-6 db and memory/ custom. On audio synch the line level is lower than the volume level so that the setting at 60  is equal to the headphone level at 14!!
-Car mode :as far as it is not used via the line input the player is shut off abruptly!
 

The main switch locksσ the player except:
-Wheel:  asjusts the volume
-prev next buttons play previous/next files

mini update: 

The final user advised me that the wheel sometimes lacks its scrolling.
-The on off switch started losing its contacts  a bit after the first  70th hours  of operation .He also noticed that 2-3 seconds are necessary to use again the power switch for locking the player or doing the next process!
-around 65 hours are enough to drain the in-built  battery .It is recharged in less than 2 hours 

I Did my best to show the highlights of this very interesting and quite 'expensive' model.If you liked my article just comment below and share this page to your friends!This is the least you can do for me