Pros & Cons
Pros
Colorfly c4 has a very powerful amplifier giving 2000mv at maximum volume. It can drive the highest resistance headphones without an external amplifier. For those used to the seamless way of itunes and ipods this will come as something of a shock. The... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Ensure you use some very good earphones to compliment the very good output quality of this device.
Fantastic sound quality playing all my flac files - (does play flac) as well as other formats.
What strikes me most is the speed of the attack of the music, the transients are razor sharp - just like vinyl.
2: only use high quality music files with it, like rips of your own cd's or really good hdd stuff downloaded because this thing... Read More
Price
5 stars mostly due to the cost of the device and its deviation from true hi-fi.
I believe that my player is also very good value for money.
I myself auditioned an a&k ak240 recently & tbh it didn't impress considering its 2 grand asking price.
As an expensive high end dedicated music player i expected a scintillating introduction to the subtle world of hi-fi.
Competitiveness
The colorfly c4 pro with its 5 picosec's of jitter compaired to the a&k's 50'ish picosec's of jitter means that there's just no... Read More
Comparing with other good quality lossless music players i have (cowon i2, cowon x7)the colorly is certainly a significant step... Read More
The c4 pro ui had begun to annoy a while ago and is prehistoric compared to the plenue 1 with its colour touchscreen.
I don't care that the c4 pro is a bigger than other inferior products, i enjoy the character and that it's a bit different.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You can say £500s a lot of money but theres an astell kern player that costs £2000 but the only thing youll get by buying the £2000 ak player versus the colorfly c4 pro a much more fancier gui a touchscreen android system
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Oh youll be £1500 worse off to boot
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I myself auditioned an ak ak240 recently tbh it didnt impress considering its 2 grand asking price
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The c4 just sounds way much better
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If your of the ipod mp3 brigade then perhaps this isnt for you if however you like your music to sound its best versus how a players ui looks then there is no better than the c4 its cyber steampunk looks are kind of cool cultish already
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The colorfly c4 is a portable media player from china that for me is somewhat of an enigma