Hello all, this is my first post in a while. I would like to learn the vocabulary and the skills on how to listen and discern what good sounds like. If there is any introductory course to music listening, maybe with different registrations of the same music on different environment and the...

Thanks a lot. I am already on FW2.7. Do you have other ideas?

Hi Thanks a lot for trying to help and sorry for late answer. So I can confirm that even with a different laptop (win10) and different USB cable the fiio x5 is not recognised. I have setup mass storage. It is on very latest firmware for Gen 1. I know I could just remove cards and use...

Hi, so the USB cable is definitely working as i use same cable with other devices.  I have latest version of Mac OS 10.12.1.  Any ideas?

Hi FiiO, thanks a lot.  I did upgrade to FW2.7.  However no change, i.e. it still does not recognise the drive.  Any other ideas?

Fw2.6 and Yes tried different USB cables and ports

Cinder I used Audiophile FLAC test CD from HDTracks. It has around 80 tracks for testing your equipment and is only FLAC I could find. Enjoy

Fw2.6 Yes tried different USB cables and ports

heman, that is great for you, but it does not solve the problem for us guys on X5 1st gen.  There are no firmware updates since quite some time and it is just stupid that i cannot touch the files when connecting device directly to mac.  Fiio pls help.

guys,   hope you FiiO service desk / product managers pick this up.  The FiiO does NOT connect with latest version on Mac OS anymore.  Connecting it to the Mac does not open any of the two drives.  Any chance you can look into this?   thanks a lot c

All,   i hope the guys from FiiO pick this one up: I have been using the A5 for a couple of days with FiiO X5 and Sennheiser HD600.  Something was just off, then i decided to run some audiophile tests just to discover that the left and right channels were overlapping.  And the fault was in the...

All,   thanks for update to 2.2, i will now check and provide feedback.  however what is not solved is that on Win7, when connecting via USB, the PC always recognizes just ONE of the TWO MicroSD cards.  This means that i need to eject card 1 and swap with card 2 if i want to make any changes. ...

thanks a lot, indeed a standard converter was included with the X5 so all i need is a simple digital coax cable.  thanks a lot!

Hi, what cables/connectors would you recommend to connect x5 via digital coax out to receiver. I have pioneer sc lx 85 which only has RCA digital coax in, while x5 has 3,5mm headphone style coax out. Any ideas?

All,   Pls help.  I love the new X5 w 2.0 FW.  It plays back wonderfully all FLACs from HDTracks.com, however many of the FLACs from Society of Sound (http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Society_of_Sound/Society_of_Sound/Music) (in 24 and 16 bit) fail to playback.  This seems to be mainly a problem...

hi all,   as part of buying the x5 there was a gift voucher included with 15% off on first purchase.  the code does not work.  anyone knows how to contact fiio for the right code?   thanks c

i don't know the bravura, but have a look at the asus essence st/stx - it also has replaceable omp's and the press was very happy with this card.

Ray,   from what you will find on the internet / forums the D2X is probably the best choice if you need 5.1 output and good game support.  A lot of people (usually from the US) also recommend the Auzentech bravura highligh mainly due to its compatibility with the SB XFi / EAX.  In my humble...

Hybrys - you are right the latest version of VLC has issues with AC3 over SPDIF!!!!  This was the last issue I would have ever thought of.  Guess, I just have to wait for 1.0.6 to come along :-)   thansk a lot

thanks a lot - will pm you

Hybrys,   thanks for your interest in helping me - truly appreciated!   here some answers: - VLC 1.0.5 (latest) and PowerDVD10 with latest patch - playback MKVs, AVCHDs - tons of them- mainly use 300 and Black Hawk Down as they have really good quality sound effects - All the...

All,   I am on Win7 using Creative SoundBlaster XFi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional series.  The card works well however I would like your advise if it makes sense to upgrade to another card to obtain better sound quality: I have noticed that if I output via SPDIF to the Logitech Z5500...

All, I have done some testing and the echo on the spdif is actually introduced by VLC or at least PowerDVD does not suffer from the same issues. Not sure if VLC uses a faulty codec and PowerDVD has a different set of Codecs. Anyway I also found a clear audible difference in using the...

Hi Lavcat,   thanks a lot for your kind reply.  The AuzenTech HomeTheater sure looks good and if you have that kind of video setup with HDMI unique in its kind.  However I connect the monitors directly from the video cards via dual-link DVI and the audio goes from the Xfi to the Z5500s, so I...

Hybrys, thanks a lot - I have indeed re-activated the onboard SPDIF-out after having installed the updated Realtek drivers. The Z5500 now correctly displays (always) the right digital format information during playback. Although this is a great step in the right direction, I still get the...