Cool iCam MP3 - Graphite COOL iCAM ( 15 November, 2000 ) Electronics Our Price : £ 152.99 Prices subject to change. This item is not in stock or has been discontinued.

Dont believe the negative reviews! :-)

I must defend my poor little Archos Jukebox 6000 from all the nasty attacks on it. I love the little thing! The firmware (5.07a) sorts out all the (minor) problems the unit had initially. Not only is it a wonderful MP3 player, but you can use it as a portable HD/backup device. As regards the music quality, its fine. It depends at what level you encode at, of course! Ive never had any problems with the loudness of the unit, and as far as the fuzziness of the bass (as one other reviewer put it), I dont know what theyre talking about... All in all a wonderful little unit, compact and with a large enough hard drive to fit all of your favourite songs on. :-)

Impressive

There is no doubt about it the Archos 6000 is an impressive piece of kit. It is a lot smaller than I expected and very easy to use. The manual is basic in the extreme but it is enough to get you going, and you can find a lot of online reviews which tell you all about the firmware fixes. For instance to change the volume press the "+" or "-" buttons at the same time as pressing the "on" button. The USB transfer of music file is fast and painless but it does eat batteries in this mode so make sure you have the DC adapter in when you initially transfer your music collection. My only point of contention with the device is with the current firmware which does not allow you to play random tracks across sub-directories but this seems to be a common gripe and hopefully a firmware upgrade will fix this. All in all this is the best high storage mp3 player I have seen, the fact that it doubles as a portable hard disk is just icing on the cake!

Happy (mostly!)

Like: Massive storage, quality sound, loud with bud-style headphones, highly portable, no skips (yet!), fast transfer from PC, can store any data Dislike: No remote (pain), hard-disk contents mysteriously vanished on first use (had to reformat it - luckily only had a few tracks, hasnt happened since I fully charged the batteries), Playlists only work if theyre in the same directory as the tracks - cant span multiple directories... Overall: great product, even better if Archos release a remote and keep the firmware updates coming...