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[Impression] FiiO E10
Jan 5, 2012 at 4:03 PM Post #676 of 1,324
Is your playback set to the Fiio E10?
 
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tocksheen said:
 
Hey guys! 
 
I need your opinion here please :)
 
I have the E10 too, the first batch I think since I got it as soon as it came out. Great product for the price, I dont have the jack issue when moving my headphones  but an other one. When I plug in my DAC, I dont hear any noise except for some hiss. Until now that s normal cause I dont play any music. But after 10 seconds, I start earing a crackling noise in the left ear, nothing on the right ear. It gets softer when I turned the E10 volume button down but still noticeable. It sort of bothers me since I m not constantly playing music but like keeping my headphones on... 

I tried to switch players and switch usb, it does the same. It feels like after a few seconds without any signal coming in, something in the DAC shuts off. I can't hear any hiss anymore but this crackling noise instead
 
Does someone have this issue too? What could it be? I m relatively new to the hi-fi equipment field and I dunno every subtilities of DAC/Amps. Please give me some indications
 
by the way sorry for my average english, I m from France.
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Jan 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM Post #677 of 1,324
 
 
 
By playback, you mean my computer settings? yeah the E10 installed itself. I can listen to music through it, there is no problem with this. But if I m not listening to any music and I have my DAC plugged in and my heaphones on, I hear a crackling noise   (which is not a hiss). So I wonder whether my DAC is deffective because this sound doesnt seem normal.. :frowning2:
 
Jan 5, 2012 at 9:40 PM Post #678 of 1,324
Try it on another PC and see if the same thing happens.
 
Jan 5, 2012 at 10:34 PM Post #680 of 1,324


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kingpage said:
Really? You contacted FiiO directly and they said they were willing to fix it for you? Well, if that's true, I might do that if my E10 has a similar jack issue.
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If you happen to be in China and buy from Fiio's storefront, it makes things a bit easier (aside from the language barrier
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Jan 6, 2012 at 10:51 AM Post #682 of 1,324
I've been using the Fiio E10 for a few weeks. It's sounds good and all but there is one problem I just can't seem to figure out.

When I set it to 16 bit everything is fine but as soon as I switch to 24 bit, there is a 1 second delay on my music and even the OS sounds. The sample rate doesn't causeany issues like this.

For example, if I play any song that starts out right away it will skip the first beat.

Any ideas?
 
Jan 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM Post #683 of 1,324


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wepeel6 said:
I've been using the Fiio E10 for a few weeks. It's sounds good and all but there is one problem I just can't seem to figure out.

When I set it to 16 bit everything is fine but as soon as I switch to 24 bit, there is a 1 second delay on my music and even the OS sounds. The sample rate doesn't causeany issues like this.

For example, if I play any song that starts out right away it will skip the first beat.

Any ideas?
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You better switch to 16 bit by default. Because it is common bit depth for most of system sounds and CD quality music. 24 bit is commonly used by lossless music or blu-ray video. You don't need to change 16 bit in system settings. As soon as you start your foobar or whatever music player with say 24/96 music E10 will play it in 24/96.
 
 
Jan 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM Post #684 of 1,324
24/44 is the best for music; 24/48 for movies, unless the delay really bothers you.
 
Jan 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM Post #685 of 1,324


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kingpage said:
24/44 is the best for music; 24/48 for movies, unless the delay really bothers you.
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there is no rules of thumbs about that, each song has their own mastering and there is no guarantee that 24/44 is the best in music
 
Jan 6, 2012 at 6:06 PM Post #686 of 1,324
The rule of thumb is just that. It is independent of mastering.
 
You do know I was refering to CD music with 44kHz sampling rate, right? 24/44 is always better than 16/44, unless the product is flawed. The 24bit mode will give you 16bit full resolution for playback (more for HD music), whereas using 16bit won't. You get less depending on what volume it is on your computer and how good the device is in the 16bit mode. It's typical that you get about 14bit resolution for 16bit playback using a 16bit DAC.
 
The main thing is to match the sampling rate with the recording, but always choose the highest bit (24bit) whenever possible.
 
Jan 8, 2012 at 7:19 AM Post #687 of 1,324
I just bought this thing, absolutely amazing, thought I can't seem to set it to output 24/96 because it crashes my windows and gives me BSD (windows 7)
 
other than that, wow, absolutely zero hiss, nothing...
 
Jan 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM Post #688 of 1,324
I think I'm going to get this to listen to tunes on my computer, my computer speakers and sub are pretty sad too, so I'm sure it'll bump those up too.
 
Jan 9, 2012 at 7:54 PM Post #689 of 1,324


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tiex said:
You better switch to 16 bit by default. Because it is common bit depth for most of system sounds and CD quality music. 24 bit is commonly used by lossless music or blu-ray video. You don't need to change 16 bit in system settings. As soon as you start your foobar or whatever music player with say 24/96 music E10 will play it in 24/96.
 
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Really? I didn't know the E10 settings were dynamic. Is there any proof for that?
 
Jan 9, 2012 at 8:22 PM Post #690 of 1,324
The specs say the maximum it can handle is 24/96, implying it can handle other, lower settings.
 
I don't have the E10 yet, but if i try and force my current soundcard to play 33Khz audio i get an error message. So basically just the fact that it makes sound at all is proof that it can handle it.
 
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