Customer Ratings & Reviews

An amazing device. Excellent sound quality and a good player app. The player app doesn't support song ratings, but I think that's a minor issue. You also can't play tracks from multiple storage locations unless you add each storage location to a playlist, but that is easy enough to do. Comes with extra Google software that is unnecessary and frankly, of no use on an audio player. The device itself is large and heavy and the control buttons could use a little bit bigger bump to tell them apart by feel. Does not support headphone controls. I love the dial volume control. Battery life is quite good and can last most of the day with wi-fi and the screen turned off. I have paired with Bowers & Wilkins C5 Series 2 earbuds and AIAIAI TMA 1 Studio headphones and no EQ or DSP and I am finding nuances in my music that I never heard before.

I use this item to mainly stream from deeper. I use an external dac amplifier called the chord mojo. While the unit has a built in dac amp and sounds fine with it I do hear an improvement with the mojo. I probably would enjoy the unit without the mojo but I already had the mojo $600 and I was trying to use my mobile phone (Windows Phone) and they would not work together as Windows uses an old version of usb. Obsurd. I tried connecting my iPod touch 6th gen with the mojo and it worked. I ordered this pioneer and it sounds better than the iPod through the mojo. My favorite feature is dedicated buttons on the device to control playback without fumbling through touch screens. This stuff is just for people who dig music and want a dedicated device just for that purpose. Headphones are important and I use 2 different pairs depending on what I'm listening to. The B & O H6 and the Sony MDR-1A. Both are portable over the ear.

I've gone through various iPods, the $250+ Sony Walkman, Fiio X3 and X5 (v. 1 and 2). I like the Pioneer better. There is some clumsiness in the Pioneer menu (I have about 14,000 songs loaded), but ease of use is generally easier than the Fiio. The Android OS operates smoothly. Soundwise (the reason for spending the big bucks on this player), there are no complaints. Whether it's any better than the less expensive X5 is difficult to say. Bluetooth works fine. I'd buy this player again.

It is a DAP. It meets the basic standard of High Definition. iPods and most cell phones are incapable of meeting the definition. I would not spend over $400. I bought a Chord Mojo to use a windows phone. That's when I learned windows USB is outdated to Apple and Android. So then I used my iPod touch 6th gen with my mojo and things were happy again. Then I figured if an iPod is not a high definition audio source then the mojo perform even better. So my quest reignited. I realized that the mojo compelled me to get an hd dap. This thing does not need a mojo but a mojo does need this thing. Headphones...what to do? I have the B&O h600 first gen over the ear. It works well. As you can tell, I like high end audio junk but don't have Trump money. I heard the sony mdr 1a at the best buy magnolia store the other day being fed by a sony hd entry line player. It has a fun sound compared to the B&O's. Kind of like if Beats and Bang had carnal knowledge together. And now I like Bruno Mars and Radiohead. Yeah, different headphones for different moods. Why the 3 stars? This product should be todays iPod. Daps run all over the place from price and capabilities. on sale and throw in a coupon and now I am at $350. I'm good with that. Some of these go for over 3k. If apple made their lighting port spit out hd, the iPod touch 7th gen would bring the masses to the party. Since that is unlikely the pioneer stands its ground. With the mojo it is a 5 star combination. So $600 for a mojo puts a limit on the dap budget.

This player is awesome. Great sound and lots of storage room with two Micro SD Slots. Have my entire CD collection ripped to FLAC along with a bunch of Hi-Res files and MQA files everywhere I go. Nice battery life (once you stop the Media scanner). Great features and interface. Solid construction.

It's an Android based player that works well. It takes up to 200 gig sd cards in each of the two sd cards. It has manual textile buttons on the outside that work well and are responsive. Shuffling between songs the play lowers and raise the volume back which is a nice touch and the same when pausing and resuming. The sound is great with a great setting of headphones. You will hear better sound even out of the crappiest headphones or earbuds. I my complaint is the screen quality. While wearing polarized sun glasses you can not see the screen at all! So the side button become your best friend in long play list. Other than that I would say this is one of the best audio players for the money with a build in DAC.

The Pioneer -XDP-100RS is best unit for the money. I researched different manufactures and this came on top for features and price. The only thing missing is a good case with a clear window and a hole for your headphones. I'm still looking for one which will fit my needs.

I researched a long time before deciding on this XDP 100R. I have never been exposed to anything beyond a IPOD and was prepared to send it back if it wasn't what I hoped. It totaly blows anyt smart phone or my Ipod topuch and even the Classic away. Great sound, great build quality. Since the firmware updates mid year the volume problem is gone and it is loud as I could ever want. I know there is a lot of chatter about the battery life but mine unit with the latest firmware updates is excellant. I can get Pioneers claimed life for sure. Wondefull unit.

The Pioneer XDP-100 is an Android mp3 player that is basically a smart phone without the phone. It is fairly large and thick, has a nice sized screen, and a small built in speaker sufficient for listening in the car or sharing a video with a friend. It had a bumper on the top when it came, but I removed it because it prevented me from plugging in a large aux cable. It is Wi-Fi compatible and Bluetooth compatible. It was released in December 2015, so when I first booted it up it needed quite a few software updates. The appeal to the Pioneer is it is able to hold a significant amount of memory, and it plays extremely high-resolution tracks. It is excellent for someone who has so much music they have to choose wisely what they want to sync. The Pioneer has 2 Micro-SD slots, and you can organize your music by SD card, and then put in whatever cards you want depending on what you want to listen to. It can hold up to 2 200gb micro sds, meaning a total of 425 gigs is possible at any given time. Now, the Amazon and Best Buy pages both say the internal storage is 32, but when I'm looking at the device on My Computer, it only shows 25. That's why I say 25 in this review. I have about 300 gigs of piano concertos and 400 gigs of audio-books. So I'm still going to have to shuffle SD cards around, but that's still a lot of memory. The controls of the Pioneer are very much the same as any Android device, with a few exceptions within the actual music software itself. It took a little practice to get control of it. The touch screen is highly sensitive and takes some getting used to, and careful manipulation otherwise you could end up deleting your favorite album instead of adding it to your playlist. The playlist controls are not perfect, but they are acceptable. You can edit, add, and re-arrange songs within your playlist directly on the device (see more about that below). The equalizer is phenomenal. You can chose between presets, but also make your own custom mixes. It is not a typical bar click and drag equalizer; it's an X and Y axis design. Really took me by surprise and I had to screw around with it to find what I liked, but if you know what you want and being able to customize your sound is highly important to you, you will love the options it provides. There are a few issues I've found: -The bluetooth connectivity isn't great. It's fine as long as you're near the speaker/device you're connected to, or there is nothing in your way (i.e. fine in the dance studio... it's a big open room) but if I walk around a corner, forget it, it's toast. If my Pioneer is in my pocket and I'm using my bluetooth earbuds, it's choppy and struggles to play well. If it's in my purse, I might as well turn it off. -When playing a track or listening to a song within a playlist, I wish I could "Go to artist" or "go to album." From what I can tell, I have to go back to my folders or album/artist menu and search it manually. When adding a track to a playlist, it does not notify me if the song is already on my playlist. -I wish I could rate the songs in some way... thumbs up, heart, star rating, etc. the device itself won't let me do that. It does seem to recognize the songs I play most often, and pick them first when on shuffle. -Every once in a while, I get an error that says "Unfortunately, Music has stopped." my playlist will stop, and resume the last time I hit play (for instance, if I hit play on song 2, and then go back to my list and hit play for song 4, then let 5 more songs auto-play, then music "stops," it'll go back to song 4). -You can sync the music with a software, or you can click-and-drag from a file folder. Just know that if you drag it to the wrong place, you can't move it. You can delete it and then put it on again in the right place, but you can't drag it from one folder to another. -The battery life isn't amazing. Now it isn't horrible either... it plays for a good 16-20 hours if you leave the screen off. But I use the thing for 8 hours at the office, and then go to the dance studio and teach for 3-4 hours and use it there too, so I have to charge it nightly. I wish the computer software that was designed for the device was more all encompassing. It allows for putting music on and off (and you can organize the music by choosing where you want it stored: either SD card, or the internal storage, which is nice). It does not allow for making/editing playlists. The device is also compatible with Media Monkey, and Windows Media Player. I do not have a preference between these two softwares, they seem to be about the same. WMP allows for me to make playlists on the software and then sync them to the device. Once added to the device, I can either play the playlist, or add all songs on that playlist to another playlist. I cannot add songs to the WMP playlist once the playlist is on the device. Neither software allows me to edit the song information once it's on the device. All in all I'm satisfied with the product, and I use it all the time. I'd recommend the Pioneer to people who play high-quality music and love Android. Also great if you use Google Play music, Amazon music, Spotify, Audible, etc. because it will run all those apps as well. This review was also posted on my personal blog, and on Amazon.