FiiO E5 amp (E3 upgraded) - Page 63

Just placed an order for mine off of mp4nation, all thanks to this thread.

ordered on the 17th from dealextreme and they still haven't arrived

i ordered on the 8th, still havent received. but my order is actually in the processed stage so hopefully itll ship with this batch.

Ordered on the 28th, and after waiting 8 days its finally mailed out!! now to wait for e5 to arrive from China to Canada

Of course. That's where I ordered it ... twice!

And, for $21.51 total charges.

Hey, don't blame this thread!

and a little guy waits....

My Fiio E5 should arrive this morning...and it's morning! (over here, 8:25am).

Yay for local supplier.

It's from a guy called 'geob' here on Head-fi and he's an official and sole supplier of Fiio products (they make more than just the E3/E5) in New Zealand
Maybe try contacting him and see whether he can ship international.

His website: Sail West Home (Don't let the so-so website put you off).

He can blame me later for the annoying email from Head-fi'ers :P

It's says "We Ship Worldwide" on the Sailwest website!

The converted price in U.S. Dollars is $29.43 as of this time.

mine on dealextreem as been sat on processing for a few days now, grrrr

Dammit, it was on my front door step lying there >.<

Anyway, testing right now!

Yeah, I can see why the im716's are recommended with an amp now.

The E5 is much much better than the E3.
Less/ no hiss, better balanced (but you can still get the E3 bass boost goodness in the bass mode), includes an instruction manual in well written English (and Chinese on the other side), and it's really small. It's about the same size as the E3 only more square.

It includes a long interconnect and a shorter interconnect cable which is useful for most people as you don't want a long interconnect cable annoying you.

I'll post a couple of pics later!

does the e5 have louder output power than the e3 ?

im716 bass mode + fiio bass boost = really boomy bass (and that's without any Mach3Bass on my D2!)

That said, the Fiio's bass boost is better than the one on the im716.
It retains the quality of the highs while boosting the bass unlike the im716's bass boost, which drowns out the highs.
Testing out with some rap atm (Jay-Z's 'Black Album', which is very well mastered, no Loudness War at all, which is a rarity in rap albums, especially mainstream ones + a great rap album, mainstream or not).

More initial impressions are that it does increase the soundstage, more so than the E3 did.

so does the e5 have more output volume than e3 pls answer thanks

if you read the first post or googled any reviews of the e5, they state that one of its improvements over the e3 is higher output