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| FINIS SwiMP3v2, Waterproof MP3 Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: FINIS
Category: Sports
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $134.95
You Save: $15.04 (10%)
New (31) from $129.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 200
Color: Blue
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 256MB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 12 x 12 x 4
MPN: 1.30.001
Model: 1.30.013
UPC: 074927018301
EAN: 0074927018301
ASIN: B001GQ2BI6
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Transmits high-fidelity sound utilizing Bone Conduction Technology | | • | Sleek design has MP3 control panel built into side paddle | | • | Includes, Volume, Shuffle, and Resume controls | | • | Plays both MP3 and WMA files with 256MB of memory, Holds approximately 60 songs | | • | 8 hour rechargeable battery |
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Product Description
Listen to music while you swim with this waterproof MP3 player.- Fully waterproof MP3 player with 128 MB memory
- Can be used with all competitive swim strokes
- Innovative design attaches to swim goggles (not included)
- Offers exceptional underwater sound quality
- Uses direct transfer of sound vibrations from the cheek bone to the inner ear to provide amazing sound clarity
- Works with Windows 98SE, 2000, ME, XP and Mac OS 9 & 10
A perfect way for swimmers to enjoy their workout and stay motivated with music. Safety warning: This product contains small parts that may present a choking hazard for young children.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Best Christmas Present EVER January 8, 2009
My wonderful husband gave this to me for Christmas and I used it for the first time today. I LOVE IT!! I wouldn't have even known I was wearing it if it weren't for the music being piped into my head. It's very lightweight, comfortable, and stays put. It does work better if one is wearing earplugs (which is its only downside for me as I hate wearing earplugs) because otherwise the noise of swimming is...well...noisy. My mile FLEW by and if I hadn't had to get back to the office to meet a deadline, I'd've gone another mile!! A great product.
swimming to the beat January 6, 2009
Thanks to my Finis SwiMP3v2 player I'm swimming faster and enjoying it more. The product is very easy to use(especially when you have a husband to download your music). I found it is really important to have good ear plugs to eliminate pool noises. The sound quality is pretty amazing. I certainly never expected to have Bob Marley in the pool with me!
Now I know what to get for my son and daughter-in-law for their birthdays.
Pretty impressive December 29, 2008
Having used older in-ear water headphones which were only so-so when you could get them to stay in, this is nothing short of fantastic. Realize that the fidelity is not going to be home theater level, or even ipod level, simply because the environment in the pool is so noisy. The sound is clear and is easy to listen to over the (very busy) acoustic noise of the pool. Note that I'm not a competitive swimmer, so I typically alternate between sets of freestyle (an ear always in the water) and breast stroke (my resting stroke, but with ears going in and out of immersion). While the sound will vary as your ears traverse the plane of the water I didn't find it objectionable, and could listen easily.
Two technical items. First, this player appears to require CBR (constant bitrate) MP3s. They recommend (and you can download) a version of MediaMonkey; since I already own MediaMonkey I don't know if the SwimP3 version automatically will transcode your collection. If not, spend the extra [...] and get the gold version from Media Monkey - your music collection will thank you (I've got the lifetime version...it's worth it). Don't go overboard on recoding - 128kb/s is just fine; I promise you'll never hear the artifacts. If you do, you're not swimming fast enough.
One odd personal item. Choose your tempo carefully. I put on Boston for the first workout and came up gasping for breath after 200 yards. If you're not used to swimming with music it's easy to let it increase your pace beyond what you're used to.
 SwimP3v2 Pretty Good December 16, 2008
I'll start by saying I love being able to listen to MP3s while swimming so this device has been a major improvement in my swim workout. However it's not perfect. It's very expensive for only 256k - I think they ned to make it 1 GB at least. Also there is no way to fast forward or rewind within a song or podcast. Lastly it turns out that swimming is really noisy! The sound of bubbles rushing past my ears when I breathe out blocks the sound of the MP3 even at top volume. They need to increase the maximum volume.
 Why did I listen to all those good reviews? December 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was about to purchase the more traditional Aquabeat mp3 player, when I decided to pour over all the reviews for the SwiMP3. I was convinced it would be the better player for me to use while doing my lap swimming. I suppose it is possible it is better than the Speedo Aquabeat, but only if the Speedo is really awful.
Seriously people, are their really that many people working at FINIS who were asked/told to write super positive reviews to generate sales? Is that what is going on? The only other explanation I can think of is that buyers are so shocked that the SwiMP3 player works at all, that they post a positive review with no regard to how well it works.
This is what I have to say about the actual performance. It is a cross between a $5 transistor radio, circa 1972, and a pair of those tin cans kids use to connect with a string to talk back and forth.
When I was younger and shopping for high-end audio equipment, the salesmen would always brag about such things as frequency response, saying the speakers or phono cartridge would reproduce frequencies as low as 20 hertz, and as high as 20,000 hertz. You could hear the artists fingers sliding up and down the guitar strings and the crisp high note of a drum stick hitting a symbol, as well as the low organ note or kick drum. The SwiMP3 player sounds like it has a range of maybe 5000 hertz to 5075 hertz. It has no range at all. It has absolutely no bass and no high frequency during playback. It has a very narrow band that it can reproduce, somewhere in the middle range. It also sounds muffled. Maybe as muffled as the Speedo Aquabeat sounds when the users ear canal fills with water while listening to music.
Be careful, you would-be buyers. Shop around. Remember that these reviews could be from Finnis employees. Well, not mine, but that should be obvious.
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