Amazing quality, ridiculous number of features, July 30, 2012

I paid £7.50 for this on eBay brand new.

Good things:
Insanely loud via MicroSD slot
EQ that actually makes music sound better
Fine grained volume control
Well packaged
Excellent quality all metal construction, very weighty, feels rather premium
Hidden feature that wasn’t described anywhere I could find, if it’s plugged in via miniUSB, 1. It charges, 2. It allows you access to the files on the microSD, and 3 (and most amazingly) it acts as a USB sound card, allowing you to play your music through the USB cable.
Sound quality is much better than any inbuilt solution, but is lacking a little in bass. I’d personally put this ahead of the x-mini speaker because the x-mini speakers focus much more and providing insane bass rather than overall sound quality. This thing is a little lacking in bass but the mids and uppers are pretty great. Great for most styles of music that isn’t massively bass heavy.
Hilarious Chinglish instruction manual (these are always great!)

Bad things:
Line in port is great, but is underamplified, if it is plugged into a weak source such as a mobile phone, the speaker is much quieter than it could be.
At very loud volumes, speaker begins to distort a bit.

Conclusion:
Absolutely insane value for money, especially considering the USB sound input usually reserved for much higher end devices (Turtle Beach, anyone?)

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Does the Job, July 5, 2012

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Stoney (Miami, FL) –

  

Although very similar, this is item (KD-MNO1) is not the same item as (BLACK) KD-MN02 Portable Mini Music SD USB Speaker FM for PC Mobile Phone MP3 Player

Both have built-in rechargeable batteries charged via USB, and can be used as speakers for virtually any device which can be connected via a mini-audio plug. Both have built-in micro-SD card readers (no SD card included) which can be loaded (with music, etc.) by connecting to your computer via the USB Cord. Both come with a USB-A to USB-mini-B adapter and a mini-headphone to mini-headphone cord.

The MNO2 has a USB-thumbdrive reader, earphone plug, and FM radio which the MN01 lacks.

————————-MNO1—MNO2
Buttons/Controls
–Mode——————–n——–y
–Repeat——————y——–y
–Play/pause/stop———y——–y
–Back/Vol—————-y——–y
–Forward/Vol+————y——–y
–EQ———————-y——–y
–Power(on/off)———–y——–y
Connections
–USB-mini-B————–y——–y
–Line-in——————y
–Line-in/FM Antenna——n——–y
–Micro SD—————-y——–y
–USB-thumbdrive———n——–y
–Headphone socket——-n——–y
Size
–tall———————2——2 1/2
–diameter————–1 7/8—-2 1/4
Plays/input
–any mini-audio———-y——–y
–Micro SD card———–y——–y
–USB thumbdrive———n——–y
–built-in FM radio———n——–y
Output
–speaker—————–y——–y
–headphones————-n——–y
Quality of
–Instructions———–poor—-worse

Neither unit comes with useful instructions. Getting various options to work requires weird combinations of button pressing. However, if like me, all you want is a terrific sounding, great looking little speaker—both are excellent.

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