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AGPtek-players any good ?

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gem:
I had high hopes for the A12.  But nobody seems to be actually answering questions.  And "hunterleo" claimed to be affiliated with AGPtek;  but he has not been back on the forum, has not answered questions, has ignored PMs ... so maybe he is not really with AGPtek at all, but was just "faking" to get information.  Big disappointment about the A12 and AGPtek in general.

spotburst:
well for what it's worth I tried AGPtek A18 (looks so 'new' that it doesn't even appear on the AGPTEK website!)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/A18-Bluetooth-Playback-Lossless-Supports/dp/B01FVZKDYG/ref=sr_1_25?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1477305558&sr=1-25-spons&keywords=agptek&psc=1

I thought that I'd tolerate the bigger size on the basis that it also had BlueTooth.

However, I too was disappointed - as an audiobook & long podcast listener I found that at times it wouldn't even FFWD.
Power down & power up and your position was lost in whatever you were listening to.
Bookmarking (non-existent)
Bluetooth connection was quite unreliable.
I returned this unit to Amazon and decided that I'll replace the battery & jack in my Sansa Clip+ (RockBoxed)

gem:
What a strange looking player with squared-off corners.  I wonder what prompted that bizarre design.

And sorry to hear about your disappointing experience with it.  Almost every review I've read of an AGPtek device, people are complaining about inability to handle audiobooks conveniently.  Well, the reviews speak for themselves, I guess.

Months later, I am still waiting for a meaningful reply from AGPtek about the A12.  Someone named "Chasty" had originally offered to send me a review sample, since he was unable to answer any technical questions about the device (and of course the manual is a joke).  Now he has stopped corresponding and has disappeared.

Hunterleo seems to have disappeared too as a "representative" of the company, so maybe he never really was one, or maybe he has left AGPtek and has moved on to a better career elsewhere.  RIP hunterleo.

Too bad!  I had hoped AGPtek would be a miraculous replacement for the old Sansa Clip products, especially if they were designed with Rockbox in mind.  But it seems they are mostly good for paperweights (and probably too light to work well for that job).

johnb:
I feel you are drawing your conclusions about HunterLeo too fast.

gem:
I certainly hope you're right.  The things he said sounded encouraging.  (But it's easy for anyone to make statements in an online forum, without any factual backing.) 

Given that he has disappeared for so long, and that all other correspondence from AGPtek to me (via other channels) has also ceased, I can't help being rather skeptical and pessimistic at the present time.  If he returns -- especially if he has something concrete to show us -- I will be the first one to applaud.

Do you have some actual reason for your feeling?  Or are you just more optimistic than I am?

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