DMC Xclef HD-500 Reviews & Tests

Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for DMC Xclef HD-500

alaTest has collected and analyzed 2 user reviews of DMC Xclef HD-500 from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 5.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. People are impressed by the sound. The usability is also mentioned favorably.

design, usability, sound

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Expert review by : Patrick Norton (cnet.com)

Performance

DMC Xclef HD-500

Humongous amount of storage; reasonable audio quality; big but busy screen; detailed manual; decent FM radio; includes voice, line-in, and FM audio encoding; average battery life; awesome transfer speeds.

The biggest (and heftiest) MP3 player we've tested in years, thanks to its 2.5 inch notebook hard drive; beefy portable drive inside doesn't come cheap; doesn't play DRM-protected WMA files; weak Web site support.

If it wasn't for the huge 100GB hard drive inside the chunky Xclef HD-500, we'd swear it was the year 2000 and we were reviewing the Hango PJB-100 all over again.

Jan, 2005

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Expert review by : Austin Vaughan (dapreview.net)

DMC Xclef HD-500 (80gb) Review

Introduction Many people here in the US aren't familiar with Xclef yet, but it's the brand name for MP3 players designed by MultiChannel Labs of Korea. Xclef introduced the HD-500 in the middle of 2003, and it was only available in Europe. The HD-500...

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the HD-500. I like 80gb worth of storage, the big screen, and the simple GUI. It sounds excellent, and it's been running at least 12 hours per charge. FM radio and voice recording are useful from time to time. The HD-500...

May, 2005

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