FiiO Willson
Sponsor: FiiO
Yes, the new BTR5 is only a reactive adjustment due to the shortage of chipsPre-order of the new BTR5 has began in China, price is expected to be about the same as the original BTR5. Judging from the ads, the new BTR5 is indeed almost identical to the old BTR5 in circuit design, change from ES9218P to ES9219C probably has less to do with any actual upgrade but the fact that ESS is phasing out ES9218P and replacing it with ES9219C in an effort to push MQA to a wider audience. FiiO probably understands this and thus doesn't even bother to change the model name, as this is in essence more of a mid product lifecycle reversion rather than an true model upgrade.. In any case, I'll sit this one out as I see no valid reason to "upgrade" otherwise.
Compared to the old BTR5, the following changes were made.
1, change the DAC to ES9219C and add MQA support
2, added a convenient "Phone DAC" mode, can be more convenient for cell phone decoding (already launched is the Android version, soon the Apple version will also be launched)
3, standard with the C-C OTG cable, in addition to the function has also done some optimization
Although there are changes, but compared with the old version of the difference is not significant; so do not recommend the old version of the user update;
can wait for BTR7, the new BTR7 is expected to be on sale in January 2022
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