Opinions on Iriver H10 20gb.

KnightStalker · 5 Aug 2009 at 20:51

Hey guys, ive got the chance to grab one of these in imaculate condition in the slate grey colour for £40, im just wondering what the general thought is with these units. I know the h300 series was highly regarded back in the day.
It will be loaded with Rockbox if i get it.

james.miller · 5 Aug 2009 at 21:28

i wouldnt bother . the amount of storage is preferable, and they hold up well in the SQ department when loaded with rockbox, but the batterlife is pathetic and rockbox is slooooow.

Syphon · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:03

james.miller said:
i wouldnt bother . the amount of storage is preferable, and they hold up well in the SQ department when loaded with rockbox, but the batterlife is pathetic and rockbox is slooooow.

Agree battery was poo. I used to have one, was good at the time, but much better alternatives available.

KnightStalker · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:05

Syphon said:
Agree battery was poo. I used to have one, was good at the time, but much better alternatives available.

for £40? thanks for the opinions, i might just stay away from it then, does sound like a good deal for the price though.

Syphon · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:12

KnightStalker said:
for £40? thanks for the opinions, i might just stay away from it then, does sound like a good deal for the price though.

I'd imagine on the second hand market. I switched to my first Creative Zen a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. :cool:

moon man · 8 Aug 2009 at 15:53

seems to be the ihp120 and 140 range that fetch the good money ,quite understandable as the optical out is unheard of these days ,pair one with an ibasso d10 or something and youve got something comparable maybe better than an imod (better i suppose as the imod uses the existing dac)

Kainz · 9 Aug 2009 at 20:49

They're very good players as I still have mine. Audio quality is top notch as is the case with all iRiver stuff. Sadly in this day and age as mentioned above you can get players that are a lot better and have better displays. £40 I feel is a bit steep too lol

james.miller · 9 Aug 2009 at 23:22

I still use mine when im in a bass-head mood. nothing not even my sony's match my h10 when it comes to low bass.

p4radox · 10 Aug 2009 at 17:23

moon man said:
seems to be the ihp120 and 140 range that fetch the good money ,quite understandable as the optical out is unheard of these days ,pair one with an ibasso d10 or something and youve got something comparable maybe better than an imod (better i suppose as the imod uses the existing dac)

How much are the H120s fetching second hand? I might be tempted to sell mine on at some point in the near future.

KnightStalker · 10 Aug 2009 at 18:31

got it for 30 in the end, hard pushed to find another player in this condition, still has the plastic thing on the screen from the factory, anyway im pleased with it, an improvement over of my old 4gb sony.

james.miller · 10 Aug 2009 at 19:02

the battery life will surely get to you. you have been warned

KnightStalker · 10 Aug 2009 at 19:03

got to be better than my ageing sony, 4 hours max playback lol

james.miller · 10 Aug 2009 at 19:04

KnightStalker said:
got to be better than my ageing sony, 4 hours max playback lol

yeah, you'll probably get about 6 out of the h10

Hades · 11 Aug 2009 at 00:02

moon man said:
seems to be the ihp120 and 140 range that fetch the good money ,quite understandable as the optical out is unheard of these days ,pair one with an ibasso d10 or something and youve got something comparable maybe better than an imod (better i suppose as the imod uses the existing dac)

Didn't know that. I have an almost unused ihp140 sitting here.

moon man · 11 Aug 2009 at 09:40

p4radox said:
How much are the H120s fetching second hand? I might be tempted to sell mine on at some point in the near future.

they can fetch silly money sometimes , very rare now on ebay and they get fought over . theres nothing else portable really that gives an optical out ,have a search on headfi theres a lot of members there that use them
btw it dosnt matter if the hard drive is duff as you can put in a 32gb cf card!!
I think the only other way of bypassing both the internal dac and amp is with a Wadia dock on the ipod but its not exactly portable and costs hundreds ,the red wine audio imod uses the existing dac (they will only use 4g5g and 5.5g i think with the superior wolfson dac)

Matteysan · 11 Aug 2009 at 13:56

moon man said:
btw it dosnt matter if the hard drive is duff as you can put in a 32gb cf card!!

Interesting to know my ihp140 is dead because of the hard drive heh.

moon man · 11 Aug 2009 at 14:30

Mattey1 said:
Interesting to know my ihp140 is dead because of the hard drive heh.

think its a very slight mod like bending a pin slightly but theres afew guides out there, oh and i think it needs to run rockbox iirc

p4radox · 11 Aug 2009 at 22:46

moon man said:
btw it dosnt matter if the hard drive is duff as you can put in a 32gb cf card!!

I think I might do that for my own use actually. I know there were mods for fitting 30Gb Toshiba HDDs back in the day, but a flash solution would be really cool.