 Car mounts, air pods, blue tail, let's see, MP3 players. MP3 players? Those are still a thing? That's what Riley said when I suggested we do this video because honestly though, why would you ever need or even want a separate device just for playing audio when you already have one in your pocket? Like it doesn't make any sense, except of course in those cases where it does make a lot of sense. Like what if you don't want to strap a giant phablet to your arm when you go for a run? Or what if you want to listen to some tunes while you go swimming or something? Or what if your phone or even your PC has like sucky audio and you want to feel the rumble of the bass in your loins? Like, bleh! Origin PC has got powerful high-end desktops and laptops with a multitude of options, including up to two terabytes of fast storage with Samsung's 870 QVO SSDs. Check them out today at the link in the video description. So here we go. So what we have are an audio file option sort of, a more budget, more wallet-friendly audio file option, a super, super cheap option. AGP tech. You ever heard of them? Sounds classic. Well, it's just AGP, like old graphics cards. Yeah, no, anyway. That's not what it is. And then this thing, which kind of exists in this weird middle ground of like high-end and cheap and versatile. Anyways, we'll get to that. Okay. Where do I start? Let's start with the budget one. The budget one. Oh yeah. AGPT Tech. I don't know what that means, but- Advanced graphics port tech. I found it on Amazon for cheap. Crazily enough, the look is not that different from my first MP3 player, an RCA Lyra. This is the AGPT Tech SO7. Yeah, eight gigs. Eight gigs of storage. Lots of adapters. Lots of adapters because it only has a 3.5 millimeter output which you use to charge and sync and for the headphones. Wait, you charge with the three and a half mil jack? Yeah, it's got a three and a half mil to USB-A connector. Wow. Don't plug that into the wrong thing. Ah, ah, ah, my thumb! Ah, ah, it won't get off! Oh, it got off. Oh, yeah, so see this. It specifically says on this accessory, not for charging! Player will not charge through this headphone extension. They gotta plug charger directly into player. I think I figured out how it works though. There's no microphone input on this. So you would only need a three pole, three and a half mil. So you would have grounding in that. And then they're just using a four pole cable and then they've gone and wired the fourth pole up to the probably the five volt positive terminal. And then that's how they've wired it up internally. So it's just like totally, totally non-standard. This got cool then. Totally breaks the spec. Innovative. And then curiously, they include two, a short one and a long one. And a really short one. These look, they look like a butt plug. They look, they look, they look like they're gonna, yeah, violate your eardrum a little bit. Now I didn't actually put those in my ears. I would hope not. Because I wanted to save all the, your ear wax. What the is this? When you're swimming, you don't, it doesn't go all over the place. There's a bunch of these kind of like $20, $30 MP3 players that you can get on Amazon. But this one was like $40. And water. And I'm like, that's in the same ballpark. Plus it's waterproof. That's also why these, you know, ribbed for your pleasure earbuds are designed in such a way. This isn't the video I wanted to make. Oh, how does that feel? Oh, actually that's quite unpleasant. Yeah, too far. Well, I think that's the idea, right? Cause if you don't have multiple seals, water's definitely gonna get past it. Like when I pull on it, it's like, like it feels like it's like moving my skull around, you know? Are you playing? I think so. You're not plugged in. Oh, there's your problem. How's the sound isolation though? Obviously not that great. Cause you can still hear me. Yeah, I can hear everything just fine. Well play some music, play some music. Okay. These are not good headphones. These I'm very familiar with. Problem was the earphones. These are absolutely terrible. There's nothing about this. They're not, it's not great. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, but it's fine. So this looks like a normal pair of, you know, not non-true wireless earbuds, right? Sort of. They're pretty bulky. Well, they're bulky for a reason because it's a built-in audio player in the headphones. It's a, and it can also be used as Bluetooth headphones, like normally with your phone or whatever, but it's got four gigs of onboard storage. Better noise isolation than the last one. I'll tell you that. Oh yeah, for sure. This comes with a lot of ear tips. Yes. My goodness. So the reason that there's two separate packages is because some of those are regular. Yep. And the other ones are swimming ear buds. Oh, sorry. Swimming. Yeah. Well, no, we already experienced that. There's no more, no more rib for your pleasure. We're safe, Linus. That's not ribs. That's like foothills. That's actually pretty interesting. The swimming ones have like this, Little extra. Like it's a membrane over the ear hole. Yeah. They are very heavy and bulky. Like you're gonna look like Lobot, you know? Hello, I am Lando Calrissians robot butler. I know that this is a great bit for you, but you don't look like Lobot at all. All right. I'm sorry. I gotta get rid of my hair. Oh, there it is. Yeah, hold on. Yeah. Now am I in Lobot? It's a spitting image. Yeah. Am I on cloud city? See, I wanted to test these out myself before I gave them to you, but all the pools are closed. You were allergic to work. That's right. Check, check, check. So you press Bluetooth for ambient mode and you hold it for Bluetooth pairing. Yes. That's kind of unintuitive. Yeah. I would press mode for ambient mode, but. Well, I guess it's quicker. If someone's talking, you need to hear them. You click it once instead of holding it. Linus is okay as a boss, but most of the time he. I'm pretty sure you're talking about me. Yeah. But I wasn't expecting much for $100 with headphones integrated into the. $110. An MP3 player. Yeah. So. I don't know. Okay. All right. What's next? What's next Linus is the Fio M5. Now you've heard of Fio before. Wow. This has some weight to it. Well, you should see it's huge. It's an Apple watch. And this thing, unlike the other devices we looked at, it plays every file type under the MP3, OGG, AC, AIFF, Flax, Waves. You know, there's a whole big list. We'll put it on screen. Yeah. It's not waterproof though. It's not. It's not those kinds of waves. This sounds so much better than the AGP tech. And that's with the same headphones. Right, right, right, right. So the power button acts as a play pause. And then if you hold it, it turns off. So at least you've got that tactile feedback if it's in your pocket. For like a hundred dollar MP3 player, this sounds good. Yeah. In a nutshell then it's iPod Nano meets Apple watch. Basically. Yeah. Cool. Plus Bluetooth, USB DAC amp thing. That's the coolest thing to me. It's not waterproof. I'm out. Ah, get out of here. I'm out. I'm out. All right. So the next step up then in order to satisfy you Linus is the Fio Fio. I don't know. I actually don't know either. This is one of those. M11. This I requested from them because I was like, why is there a $400 MP3 player in the year, I think it was 2019 at the time. And then I never tried it because I didn't get around to it. So you might be wondering in the audience why we just went from a hundred dollar MP3 player to a $400 audio player. And the answer to that is kind of like once you get into the 200, $300 range with audio players you kind of start asking more questions about what you're getting for your money because there's a lot of like these Android powered big screen audio players in the like 200, $300 range. And at that point I'm like, it's just basically a phone. If you're looking to save a buck this looked like a really good place to be the M5. And then if you're gonna spend a bunch of money you might as well get something fully featured like the M11, which looked very interesting to us. So this improves on the M5. So this is Android. Yeah. It runs Android 7, which is kind of scary but at the same time you don't actually have to connect to the internet with this thing. If you just like connected to your PC and like load music on it, I don't know. So the main difference between this and the M5 is obviously it just kind of has some more power and versatility in terms of it does run Android. So you can't do anything you want to do on Android on it. Type C charging, you've got a, what are all these outputs? It's got 3.5 mil output but it also has balanced outputs in 2.5 mil and 4.5 mil. So the versatility is there for the real audio files. It does have 32 gigs of internal storage as opposed to zero on the M5. Is it not expandable? And there's two micro SD card slots. Where? On the side here. Oh, they're hiding. You need the pin to open them. They're hiding. Okay, can I just take this horrible case off of it? Sure. Is this included? It's included, yeah. Ew, it's like, it's gone yellow with age. Linus, somebody designed that. Well, they did a bad job. Oh, I'm sorry, Fiio. People might be asking why we didn't do iPods and Zunes. And that's because, you know, those are the obvious choices. Yeah, well- Anybody can go out and buy an old iPod or old Zune. We wanted to get like somewhat new stuff, okay? You can change your output. You can change your gain. There's a low pass filter mode including a bunch of different fine tuning options for it. Shift your balance. This is cool. I can say if you have an inline remote or not. Let's see if it works now that I've activated it. I think this track just takes a little while to get started. Double click to next tool. Yep. Hold on, let's try triple to go back. Oops, I pressed it four times. I always have a hard time with that triple click. Yeah, look at that. Huh. That's pretty cool. The other really notable thing that I would say with this is that it's got 13 and a half, 13 hours of playback with wired headphones, but it's got 48 hours of playback if you're using Bluetooth headphones. I think for me, the Magic Bullet is really something like this. It costs little enough that I'm kind of like, yeah, that's something that I could justify for MP3 playback. It saves me some battery life on my phone. It's got a touchscreen at least, unlike these other ones where I just have to like memorize what's in my playlist, expandable storage. I think the M5 is really the star of the show. That's my takeaway. If you're not a swimmer. If you're not a swimmer. If you are a swimmer, however. This is probably a better bet. Geez. We wanted to do this at the pool, but they're all closed. He's yelling. Why are you yelling so loud? Because, you know, I'm trying to, I just wanna know if I can still hear the music if I'm yelling under the water. Can you? Actually, yeah. Pretty good. It's a little gurgly. What about during breaststroke? Still works? Still works. Still works. Yeah, still works. Pretty good. Get some butterfly. I can't butterfly so it might look a little awkward. Yeah. Yeah, so that cord is still dangling all over the place. Yeah, so this seems to be pretty waterproof too, I guess. I don't know if I trust it that much. These earphones are still very uncomfortable. 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