Surfans F20 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth5.2, Lossless DSD High Resolution Digital Audio Music Player, High-Res Portable Audio Player with 64GB Memory Card, Support up to 512GB

If you ask my wife, I've gone through too many MP3 players looking for the best one for my needs. I've had a lot of the unknown brands and some are actually really good..just not exactly what I wanted. The one I've been using since summer goes everywhere with me...but I needed something BETTER. Got it with this. Let me preface this by saying this is not for beginners. If the extent of your music playing comes from apps on your phone, you might be lost in the beginning. If you're looking for a touch screen with big pretty buttons, this isn't it. I read another review saying the user experience is bad. I think that's absurd. If you're serious about music but on a tight budget, this has an experience you will appreciate. The UI is extremely intuitive and there are a lot of options and settings to fiddle with to get this set up exactly the way you want it. DAC - This has a great DAC for the price. It's not the most current generation, but at this price point that is to be expected. It does the job and does it well. My FLAC and MP3 sound fantastic pumped through a solid pair of IEM headphones. Blows away other DACs in the next tier down. TI makes a really great DAC! Sound - Even my lower quality MP3s I've been keeping since the days of Napster sound great. Obviously you can tell the difference in quality when one of the old files pops up on the shuffle, but it doesn't sound grainy or glitchy. My high quality 320kbps files and the few albums I've ripped from CD to FLAC are where this shines. It is absolutely phenomenal to listen to hi res audio on this device. I am really impressed at the sound for the price. Build - Another review says this device is lacking in build quality. This is an aluminum brick. The buttons are plastic but seem completely solid. The scrolling wheel is textured plastic but feels very sturdy. I had no problems navigating the menus with it. The buttons are all perfectly labeled and make navigating the interface that much easier. The screen is of a decent resolution for this type of device as well. EQ - This has a very competent 10 band equalizer with lots of presets. Unlike in low-end hi-res players, the equalizer here makes a difference. I've got it set on Rock and it sounds fantastic. I/O - I've used this device with bluetooth headphones, bluetooth earbuds, a bluetooth stereo, single bluetooth speaker, and my car bluetooth. No connectivity problems at all. I get the best sound out of my wired IEMs, though. Bluetooth is fine, but nothing compares to a decent pair of headphones. You can also connect external devices (I used a generic USB stick connected with a micro-USB OTG cable) and get music from those. I've got a 128GB MicroSD card installed and am listening to this device streaming through an Anker Soundcore about 25 feet away as I type this review. The HiBy Music app works as expected, and streaming from my phone through this is really a simple process IF YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. Haha Interface - Three themes to choose from..Doesn't do much but change the color scheme. What I LOVE about the interface is that you can access important settings from the now playing screen. Turn on and off bluetooth, display lyrics, show album art (looks great), and access the EQ. The back button does what it says, and the menu button does what it says. There is literally no issue with the UI for someone who understands file structure or has ever used a computer. There are two other settings menus accessed from the home screen. You can customize nearly everything. Battery - I fully charged this after receiving. Took about 1.5 hours to fully charge. As of this moment, I've listened to music either through headphones or streaming through bluetooth for about sixteen hours. Mostly streaming to bluetooth. Battery bar shown in the photos is showing about 50%. In real world use, this device might need to be charged once a week, especially if you're mainly listening through wired headphones. Overall impressions: THIS is the MP3 player I've been looking for. It's inexpensive, built like a truck, looks good, and has more settings than I can shake a stick at. I am extremely pleased with my purchase.

I've been searching for the last couple years for a portable music player that suited my needs. I've wanted a player like my old Sansa Clip Plus with rockbox; Very fast and responsive User Interface that is also Easy to navigate through music files by file name alphabetically(NOT file tags), and all buttons with no touch controls. Obviously sound quality is something to consider but the interface issues mentioned above take priority for me personally. I ordered the Surfans F20 a week or so after I had ordered the HiFi Walker H2 as I was curious if it was the same player and I wanted a spare music player to experiment with. Much to my surprise he F20 is Identical to the H2 outside the physical styling. The F20 has an aluminum frame with a plastic back while the H2's entire housing is metal(probably aluminum. The F20 has metal dimpled scroll wheel with light buttons that stick out of the housing noticably while the H2 has a rubber coated scroll wheel and much firmer buttons that are closer to flush. The F20 uses a Micro USB port to charge and transfer data with it's Micro SD slot being recessed while the H2 uses a USB C port and a more flush Micro SD slot. The H2 weighs considerably more than the F20 and has a lanyard loop in the lower right corner where the F20 is noticeably lighter with no lanyard loop. For all practical purposes the F20 is an H2 minus some weight, the lanyard loop, and has Micro USB instead of USB C. That being said, everything that I said about the H2 applies to the the F20; It ticks all the right boxes; * The controls are are buttons and the scroll wheel has indentations in it. In most cases you can use the Back or Skip track buttons on the right side of the player instead of the scroll wheel if you so choose. * The user interface is very intuitively laid out. * The user interface is very responsive and fast. * The player firmware works with 1TB micro SD cards * The player supports multi folder deep file structure * The volume control is very precise giving a scale of 1-100 with increments of 1 * The player sound quality is Noticeably better many older cheap players I've used in the past * When browsing music by folder; the files actually appear in alpha-numeric order. * The screen is reasonably bright. It seems a bit dim in daylight but its usable with brightness set to max. * The battery life seems pretty good(15ish hours give or take) * The player plays MP3, OGG, WMA, M4A, FLAC, and WAV I cannot speak for the people looking for some premium HIFI experience, but I can say from a practical stand point; the player is easy and practical to use if you have a large music collection sorted by folder(no tagging) and sounds great even on my janky old headphones and car speakers. It would be disingenuous not to include any criticism of the player so are are a few niggling issues myself and a friend have noticed; * The player seems to have a cut off point somewhere for displaying song files by file tags. I dont use file tags to sort any of my collection but a friend does and he said the H2 only showed about half of his collection (36K songs) from a 500GB micro SD card. When we switch to folder browsing we found everything showed up. If you have a large collection you want to browse through by file TAG then the H2 is probably not for you. * The font/theme/interface is very limited in it's customization. You get like 2 different themes and 3 options for font size. Other than that you cant really customize how the player looks. * The scroll speed doesn't accelerate when browsing by folder when you scroll the wheel or hold down a navigation button(back or forward). This makes going through a large collection a little slower but its not horrible unless you have like a thousand files or folders to go through in a single directory. * The anti-aliasing on font in the player makes it seem slightly blurry at times. There is no way to turn it off.

**UPDATE 2025** So I've owned this item for about 3 years now, and I still love it. Once I got used to its quirks with creating playlists and folder navigation, using it has become pretty second nature. Adding songs couldn't be easier- just drag and drop into your music folder- device will sync automatically (or manually if you want). For the sound quality, build quality, and button interface layout, I would give 5 stars. My only complaint is that blutooth connectivity seems inconsistent- most devices work as intended, but some devices (like my car) don't connect well- with lots of drop out or speed changes. I've also found little difference between "high quality" blutooth mode and regular...and having to restart to set those changes is a pain. And the device will still occasionally crash or need to restart after changing some settings...not often, and generally not during regular play, but still worth noting. So for those reasons, I would still give it 4, maybe 4.5 stars. It's hard to find MP3 players with physical buttons (that actually feel good to use), and that alone keeps this one on my high-recommendation list! ***original review from 2022 below*** I was very hesitant to buy this player. For the price, there are a lot of other options out there, and the reviews were either love it or hate it. Now that I have it and have used it for a couple days, I'm more confident that this was a good choice. The good things: the design is great. I love the size and feel of the device. The metal casing is SOLID. The user interface is just complicated enough- but also prioritizes the features you'll use most frequently. I like the fact that if you press and hold the "menu" button you get a list of the alphabet to scroll through- clever design! The scroll wheel can adjust volume too, which is a nice touch. Fast song selection!- Selecting a song loads almost instantly- I never realized other mp3 players had a delay in selecting music until using this one, with no delay! The less good things: The corners! Being a solid metal case, the corners are SHARP! Definitely have to be careful how you hold and place the device. The headphone out jack, so far, seems to give the worst sound-quality. Everything sounds too quiet and unbalanced compared to the other options. The firmware. I could not figure out how to upgrade the firmware- the company's site seemed a little sketchy (my antivirus kept blocking it). I'm running the thing on the default firmware- but it's working okay. Inconsistent line-out function. Sometimes the line-out doesn't work at all- not sure why yet- restarting it or re-plugging the cords seems to fix it. Display text is WAY too small. I mean, it's readable, but it seems weird you can't make it larger than like a 10-point font. Reading the time meter is frustrating- I just look at the progress bar. Navigating favorites and playlists is still a learning curve- doesn't seem to be a way to get "random play" for a single artist- have to select an album or all songs. The microSD slot is hard to get to- I had to use tweezers the first time I used it, then I found the sweet spot and can eject it the normal way. Lastly, the sound quality is something I'm still figuring out, but generally it's winning me over. Line-out and blutooth sound great! Very full, rich sound. My only gripe is the equalization. The default equalization (flat) sounds strange to me...and the equalizer is just "okay." You can change settings which is good, but so far I haven't found the setting that "clicks" for me. So, overall? I'm guessing this device has a lot of fancy technology and features I'm not taking advantage of (the DAC stuff is over my head). That said, I do love using the device- the design and sound quality are there where it counts. For the money, it's still a close call, but I think it's a good player that's worth your consideration if you don't mind the small UI text.

I purchased this specifically for the car, and am unable to get rid of the extra noise, it is a high frequency whine, which sounds like digital noise / aliasing from both outputs using a cable to Aux input (yes checked seated completely same with 2 other cables). The noise is present 1. between tracks 2. in pause and 3. while the audio is in playback which is the most annoying. I am thinking filter issue for the DAC chip? Or is it the radio?...need another car radio with Aux. This noise is not present with headphones direct or Bluetooth. So, some kind of incompatibility for the F20 output and My radios Aux input of the car radio. Not having schematics of the F20 player only the Car Radio in which Aux is isolated via caps and ground is raised via 470 ohm resistor. The Ipods, an old Walkman tape player and a Marantz digital recorder/player have no noise and great audio. I will have to move the scope to the car and see if I can diagnose the issue. So far, help from Surfans has been less than helpful...I must give them more time as they currently have no clue, they need an engineer and not a customer service rep for this issue. Or send me the schematics... So I wait....hoping The radio (older Kenwood w/CD) Aux works fine with my other portables (above) especially the ancient iPod Nano and the regular iPod in which battery life is limited, hence looking for replacement other than an expensive Astell&Kerns to leave in the car. As far as a comparison with the iPod, Apple knocked it out of the park as far as function but not great audio, however it is good enough.... The F20 is a little less user-friendly but easily functional and serviceable. I love the fact it does not have a darned touch screen. AMEN! Bluetooth seems good, as are direct headphones (be sure 32 ohm or less). Bluetooth does not always connect. It may be interference?... I don't know, when it connects it is great. Is the audio super high quality - No, but good enough like my iPods especially if in a car/bus/train/plane. No cell phone, so I cannot compare audio, which I am certain is not great. Being I listen to classical and jazz, mostly FLAC and wav files, my Squeezebox touch handles these exceptionally well The really nice thing is it handles just about every file type, even opus which is not listed. Works with Linux - plug it in, and it acts like a thumb drive to transfer files. Hooray!!! Minor annoyances- Having it in hand, I would suggest rounding the 4 corners as they are just a little too sharp. Display - Larger print option like huge would be also welcome. I do not mind scrolling. Speaking of print, what the heck is that manual, one needs a microscope to read it ! Thank goodness for a PDF! More info on using Linux would have been nice, I figured it out where to put the music files...I do not own/use MAC or Windows...( ok, a Win XP laptop for the antique iPods and test equipment). One must get used to the interface, it is "clunky" for lack of a better word. Again serviceable. Scroll wheel works - ok, be nice if not so stiff, it may get better with use. A little coarser stippling may help too. Now, how do I move fwd or back within a playing piece??? The long press >> seems to jump to next or previous...must be me being clumsy.-YES my issue I may send it back If I cannot solve the extraneous noise issue, I have a couple of weeks. Again, I need to do some testing by moving my tools to the car....car is not coming into the house! I will update this later, only had it just over a week....I may be expecting too much especially from Surfrans customer service/help...I will send another email and we shall see. Renée update- 25 May 2024 I found the problem - NO HELP or very little from their Engineering Dept at all. They seem to think cables are the issue, or it is the audio files - WRONG on both!!! I finally had time and made a quick breakout and bring the scope to the car... I put the scope on the lines--it was obvious looks like oscillations- did not go any further as I recognized the issue from RF devices I design and service....the F20 amps appear to be /are oscillating, (it may also be "bleed through" from the DAC). Appears that amps cannot handle the capacitive load /reactance. 10K is not enough load for this device, or impedance mismatch is causing the issue. I put a resistive load of 75 ohms on each channel to ground ( on my fixture) and the problem vanished, tried 91 ohms still ok. So, somewhere 50 to 100 ohms need to be added across the outputs of maybe both headphone and line outs, this is depending on how it is implemented...I could sure use the schematic. btw, 50, 75 and 91 ohms were what was convenient on the bench and all did the job. 100 ohms are in the ugly breakout box now until I get inside and install them. I sure could use help on getting inside and the schematics, especially to understand why. Let us see if the Customer Service will send that info.---i kind of doubt they will....but one never knows... I will update this if they do hope this helps someone else if the problem arises. Renée

This system can take accidental drops but be careful because I would not guarantee that. This system does allow portable beautiful music to be shared on speakers or listened to totally privately alone somewhere like on a train or city bus. There may be better systems out there. It may just need mega base boosting headphones if there is such thing. I found that the way I set the EQ causes sound on head phones lacking the full bass that I wrote into my digital remaster song. I get some fair bass with the LFS speakers. It sounds better with LFS bass boost turned off because my EQ settings is how I want it. I doctored songs with audio editors prior to copying them to USB card. Each song is written to sound perfect. I never have to adjust anything on music players or speakers after rendering a track. I once again have bought better speakers than I had when I first bought this device. The sound is even more rich now than any bluetooth speaker I have had before. They are slightly bigger speakers again and not so easy to carry around my neck the way I was doing with little speakers. I can also use a scarf to wrap and tie the speakers up and attach them to any bicycle handle bar on the left and right. No EQ setting is satisfactory for bass on head phones, but I can use my computer head phone port and Windows Media Player, instead of the Surfans music player, to get the sound I expect on head phones with and without a Soundblaster card. What matters is that I get ok sound on bluetooth speakers. The fact is I have never needed F20 for head phones. I will give it 5 stars because it works well. I have remastered every song I listen to to play as loud as it can without distortion, with creative sound level fades so it is not just like a flood of oversaturated volume through, second by second perfection, and bringing out the sound of instruments, excellent pace flow and frequency balance. I would be nice if people would appreciate all the work I did. It is more real to try to go savage and carry speakers without a car or a motorcycle and I want people to like it because of the beauty in it. The music is not just for me. It is also for people outside to get a drift of what I thought was something good. Much of the songs are just sweet love songs people could tolerate. I have had issues with my computer and the micro-sd card getting corrupted at times but it can be fixed and I can export or copy the songs I wanted over any corrupted file from backups or the source. I've never really lost anything. I am familiar with command prompt on Windows and I like using it. I have various sound mastering programs, that are some free progs and some professional software. The main thing is I like the songs and I am not out there being fake pretending that I like it. I may ask the company if I replace the F20, is there any higher quality Surfans player or are they all the same quality. Ideally I would have a receiver/device and speakers that somebody could confirm for me really does all have max bit rate of at least 24bit sound. Such a thing would be worth paying for, and it should be easy to return something that is not genuine luxury. I believe there are bluetooth systems that really could transmit 24bit sound. All they need is someone who cares about it like me.

I was excited for the Surfans to arrive and it did - overnight and fully intact. The F20 is a solid little unit and feels very robust. My first job was to load my (puny)12 gigs of music on the Micro SD card. I have a card writer, so I removed the card from the F20 and inserted it into my writer. I noticed a .ini file on the card and copied it to my PC (for backup) and proceeded to copy my entire collection (each album has a folder) to the card, completely bypassing the native app. Once complete, I slid the card back into the F20, powered it up and everything was there. The next step was pairing the device to my Anker Soundcore Q30 headphones, and this is where I ran into trouble. The headphones work fine with all my devices, but for the life of me I could not get them to pair with the F20. The headphones simply would not show up as an available device. I then unpaired the headphones from everything, checked and updated the firmware on the headphones and gave it another try. Finally, magically, the headphones showed up as available and they paired. The native app is very intuitive, and it categorized all my music by artist, album, song title making it a very simple task to dig up what I want to hear. And I have to say, the music sounds excellent. I've made a few adjustments and created my own custom equalizer configuration. Overall, I'm really pleased with the F20. The GUI is very intuitive and the unit is solid. I'm looking forward to my music not being interrupted by a phone call or an email notification. Separating my music from my phone/camera/ was my main goal and I'm glad I did. A pair of JBL Charge 6 speakers are on their way, and I'm looking forward to pairing the G20 to them in stereo. Fingers crossed there will be no glitches. If all goes as planned, I'll have a great little portable stereo system to take camping.

I bought an mp3 player as a result of all of the ads littering youtube and spotify. Back when i bought this in 2023, it worked as intended. It was shorted out in a storm and i contacted the company as requested. Their customer service is impeccable. I got a reply hours later, and after sending an invoice had it replaced. I highly recommend this company for their stellar customer support and the functionality of their products. Review of product — Pros: This player is one of the best I have ever had. Most mp3 players for me were too loud, too uncomfortable and too short in battery life. I cant say much about the mp4 aspect, but i can tell you the screen is great for displaying general information. It has a small square space that you can add an image too. It’s very simple to set up. I personally do not use playlists and instead folders, so i’m sorry that i cant speak for playlist support. One thing i wasn’t actually expecting is that it supports lyrics. The battery life is outrageous. It lasts me all day, and even when i return home it still has some. Its about the size of your palm, its a little heavy but its not a nightmare that weighs down. I actually forgot i had it in my pocket when i went out shopping for 4+ hours. Its about as heavy as a thin phone, maybe less. If you’re wondering if theres any lag— Its nearly unnoticeable. I have about four hundred songs and theres no lag yet. It plays songs almost immediately, and ive had no issues in that regard. The sound is crisp— amazing for a portable little thing. It’s made me notice small parts of music i haven’t appreciated before. Sometimes i just lay down a listen. I’m never turning back personally. Now that I’ve had a taste of good audio i can tell when audio is muffled. A blessing and a curse, haha! Mostly a blessing. Cons: its not waterproof. At all. Not even water resistant. My thoughts are that this is likely to avoid pressure and too much of a humid environment. Then again, I dont think you should be using a DAP in a pool. If you do want that, this isnt for you. The edges are kind of sharp, so be incredibly careful not to drop this on your foot or anywhere near your soft squishy parts or you might regret that. Dont grip it like a maniac either, thats probably gonna hurt ya. I’ve also heard playlist support is a problem, so i suggest looking into that before purchasing. If you drop it, it might damage the battery. Though, mine was completely fine, so i’m not sure. Not much cons. All and all, if there was a rating higher than five stars, i would give them all the stars i can. Amazing!

When my wife's SanDisc Clip MP3 player started falling apart, she asked me to find her a new player for her birthday. I bought a fairly cheap player that had a clip on the back and seemed like an upgrade to the SanDisc player. Since it was her birthday I also splurged for this more expensive player as a backup. Glad I did, because it turns out the cheaper player was kind of a piece of junk, but this Surfans F20 is almost exactly what she was looking for. The lack of a clip to attach it to your clothes is largely made up for by the Bluetooth - she says when she stands the player upright in our living room, she can hear it via Bluetooth headphones from nearly anywhere in the house. Hardware-wise, it's a nice little player. I like the spin wheel (although it was so stiff at first that I didn't think it actually spun). I like that it has volume buttons on the side, and you can really fine-tune exactly how loud you want it to be. The screen is decent sized and actually shows the album art that I have in the album folders or embedded in the MP3 files (the cheaper player didn't). I'm not much of an audiophile, but the sound quality is really good as far as I can tell. So what are the minor gripes? First, it doesn't support playlists very well. Technically you can create playlists right on the player, but for some reason you have to use one of a list of pre-named playlists, and none of the names are very descriptive (they're things like "Theme" and "Genre") and you can't re-name them. After reading the instructions, I found you can download software from the Surfans web site to a computer and use that to build playlists in M3U format, then copy those M3U files to the Surfans player. But the player doesn't show those playlists under the Playlist category - you have to find them via the file view screen to open them. On the plus side, my wife's old player also used the M3U format so I was able to just copy her existing playlists to this Surfans player, tweak them a bit with a text editor and they were good to go. A bigger gripe is that even with the "gapless" setting turned on, there's still a tiny gap/hiccup between tracks. Very annoying when listening to live albums or albums where the tracks are supposed to flow into each other (say, Dark Side of the Moon for example). Another very minor gripe is that the player doesn't have built-in speakers and didn't come with headphones. But my wife specifically asked for Bluetooth headphones to go with the new player, so that wasn't a problem. All in all, this is a pretty nice MP3 player that's maybe a little overpriced but not nearly as expensive as other high-end MP3 players. For most previous MP3 players that I've owned, I would always replace the built-in operating system with the open source RockBox, which to this day I still consider the gold standard of music playing software. Unfortunately, there hasn't really been much support for RockBox for almost a decade now, so it doesn't work with most modern players. The good news is, the built-in software on this Surfans player is almost as good. Oh, and I should mention that the folder view (you can either look for your MP3s via folder structure or by category such as artist/album/etc) actually works really well. Which is a big difference from most MP3 players that I've seen that have a folder view. It actually shows the folders in alphabetic order, and the tracks in each folder in numeric order. Nice. For some reason a lot of players just show the folder view in random order unless you download 3rd party software to sort the File Allocation Table. You don't have to do that with this one.

Lo primero hay 2 versiones, una con el micro USB antiguo como sale en la fotos y otra con USB-C, se puede leer esto en foros, a mi me ha llegado desde Amazon la nueva del USB-C. Me gusta el buen sonido pero no quiero gastarme mucho dinero en ello. Este es el ideal para esta situación. Lo estoy probando con unos cascos Sennheiser HD 599, que no son muy caros pero son decentes, y espectacular. Pistas Ogg de 320kbps. No suena enlatado, y mucho mejor que cualquier iPod Classic, tengo el 5a gen y este Surfans le gana en calidad de sonido. El sistema operativo trae muchas opciones y me gusta, está diseñado bien para audiófilos. La calidad de construcción es normalilla, y la rueda no es del todo buena la experiencia aunque se puede usar bien. Yo no usaría este aparato para hacer deporte, lo voy a usar en casa.

This is a simple MP3 player that sounds good and is easy to use.

This is an awesome DAP. No need for apps, logins. Does exactly what it needs to do in an exceptional way for such a reasonable price. If there is one drawback and it’s irrelevant really, it’s that you cannot control sound unless screen is active. A small issue that is easily overcome. It’s hardy, it’s battery life is brilliant and I’d fully endorse this as a great entry and beyond app. Buy it. Then see if you need an upgrade. I’d guarantee you won’t. Well done Surfans.

Built quality, Sound and Battery everything is good, value for money.

Transferred all my songs from my old iPod and it works great