And while the Yakumo Hypersound is cheap and arguably cheerful it does do its job remarkably well, this model the Hypersound XR has an on board 256mb of storage which can be further expanded by adding a SD memory card. This is great feature which means an extra 512mb can be added for as little as £40, plus you can use this card to fill up the Hypersound from your PC, of course there as also a USB 2.0 connection.

Cheap as the Yakumo might be it certainly does not look cheap, this is in part due to the backlit blue LCD screen which has a 128 x 32 dot matrix display which is used to display track info and device status.

Operation of the 9.3cm device is nice and easy, the side mounted controls allow for volume and track selection and the face mounted play button controls pause and playback, you can access pre built play lists of select tracks / albums to play from the front panel.

Power is taken care of with a single AAA battery from which we obtained 15 hours of playback, the XR supports both MP3 and WMA both sound good despite some poor quality headphones but as with  many devices we test the electronics are sound enough and once paired with a set of Shure EC2's the XR sounds great. Another nice feature is the dual headphones slot allowing you to share music with a close friend!

There is an equalizer on board for those who like that sort of thing and there is also the now obligatory built in microphone for Dictaphone operations.

At £60 the Yakumo Hypersound XR is a steal, fantastic and as a cheap MP3 player present or as a secondary device, sound and build quality are good and the areas that Yakumo are more efficient with do not detract from a great little gadget!

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