The iAUDIO MP player range is produced by COWON America, a division of COWON Systems, a leading Korean multimedia specialist. The company is considered to be a true innovator in the digital media sector specializing in the provision of both software and hardware solutions.
From a software perspective the company is undoubtedly best known for the JetAudio multimedia software suite. Their hardware appliances include their award-winning iAUDIO MP3 players. COWON’s aim is to remain at the forefront of the digital media market and you can see their commitment to the sector’s technology with every MP3 release they make.
The iAUDIO MP3 player product set contains various models to suit all pockets, music listening preferences and storage capacity needs. You can buy standard MP3 players here as well as high-capacity and multi-functional multimedia jukeboxes that allow you to listen to music, look at photos, watch movies, read text files and make voice recordings.
This company scores consistently highly in reviews for the sound technology that they build into every player, whether a flash based model, a hard drive type or a multimedia model. They compare as well as, if not better, than many better known models in the sector. Their players also win plaudits for design, use of color and the number of features attached to each specification.
The company currently offers the following products:
- The iAUDIO Range - products here include the x5, the 5, the G3, the U2, the M3, the 4, the CW300 and the CW200. Storage capacity for these players ranges from 64MB to 40GB.
- The JetAudio Range - This range contains the JetAudio digital multimedia jukebox.
Recent developments with COWON have seen the company improve the sound quality of their players even more. Recent releases have come with a built-in capacity for BBE technology. This process is widely held to significantly improve the quality of MP3 playback so that an MP3 track automatically attains CD quality and a CD track attains Super Audio CD/DVD audio quality.