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hey everybody my name is Doug lady with high five man and I just want to introduce you all to the HM 901 portable digital music player this unit will be replacing the 801 right now we're looking at approximately in April to May launch time for it it will be retailing for $9.99 and will be available globally throughout high finance distribution network some of the cool things we just want to show show you on this is it's kind of very simple to use Tai Chi UI where you just simply scroll the wheel and you can go through your settings your songs John Rose album but if we just sit here and we're going to click down to our SD card and we'll have a list of the music that we've got on here it it's simple you click where you want to go and then start to play it's that simple it'll accept just about any music file you toss at it it loves lossless of flack a lack Apple Lossless AI F ACC just about anything you throw at it of course you can also put mp3s on there the higher the resolution the better what drives this nice little machine is it has dual 32-bit decks so it'll it'll really clean up something that doesn't sound great but if you've got some really high-end uncompressed music what it's able to produce is just amazing some of the features also on the side here we have our HD and the vintage setting and this is just basically helps us with you know what kind of headphones or earphones were listening to HD is great if you're listening to a nice planar magnetic headphone it just gives it a little bit more information that a dynamic driver may not get HD is also really good if you're using a multi be a custom earphone or even some of the universals it does have a high and a low gain again great for when you're switching between headphones and earphones of what you need you can even lock the device if needed if you're using it on the go which is really nice if you just kind of throw it in your backpack of your bag or whatnot if you're on the go and have your earphones in your pocket or what not it uses a very simple analog volume control so you just kind of just quickly click right through it and if you're running up around 7 or 8 chances are you're really listening to a loud it's got a lot of output on this side as you'll notice we have a memory card slot the HTM 901 comes standard with 8 gigabytes of memory but it'll take an SD card up to 128 gigs so you have a lot of room to put some music on there and you can switch back and forth as you're listening we do recommend you turn the device off if you're going to switch the memory card just so we can refresh its memory database of what you have it also has a balanced and a normal setting for the headphone out so that you can run it obviously normal or balanced depending on what you want to listen to and the cables your youing there's a lot of cables that are coming out now that are a 3.5 millimeter yet you can run balance through them so kind of getting ready for the future blast we want to show you guys is we're going to pop this open here real quick is inside behind the battery pack there's actually a user replaceable amp card so we're going to go ahead and open that up real quick ok so what we did is we pop the cover off our battery here and now underneath the battery we have this little amplifier card and the amplifier card we can pop out and as you can see it's just a series of op amps but one of the really cool things is multiple versions of this card will be coming out in the future you'll be able to run it if you use a again a multi be a setup for custom earphones there will be a card built specifically for those because they're so efficient they'll really pick out a lot of the nuances in the music so we won't have a car that'll aim just at that we'll have ones that are aimed directly more for you know dynamic driver earphones or plainer magnetic earphones and just other earphone technologies are out there so the really nice thing is you'll have ultimate flexibility of how you want to listen to your music I'd be able to change your DAC out or I'm sorry your your amp out from here you know and just kind of play around a testing so that'll be really nice that'll be coming out later this year I believe summer follows what's been mentioned there's no exact timeframe at this point right now so one of the other things I'll show real quick is on the bottom here we have a digital out and through this digital out what we can do is you can out to unbalanced RCA you can go to USB you can go to a 3.5 so there's there's lots of functionality of what you can what you can do since this is a player and a DAC in one with the amplifier you can also do a 3.5 to digital in and this cable is provided so that if you have all your music on an iPod you can actually use this device as your deck and your amplifier and just run it straight out into your headphones or earphones so it's another just one of the things that makes this 9:01 so versatile of what it'll be able to do for you