Yes, it’s very odd how some experience very warm to hot, but the other night I was listening for around four hours straight and it never heated up beyond mild warmth. Have no idea why it’s so different for others.

Yep, me too. Driving my HE-6, with volume around the 100-115 mark, set all-to-dsd, in similar ambient temps, my unit has never passed mild warmth. Others have posted different experiences, but for whatever reason in my usage of the 17 there hasn’t been a single instance where I’ve felt the need...

I have quite a few amps and many cans, including the HE-6. i was fortunate to find a brand new EF-6 and it drives the HE-6 wonderfully. I haven’t turned it on in months, even though I use my HE-6 several nights a week. That’s because I bought the M17 and against all the odds I was amazed that it...

I have too many cans for my own good, and the 17 is very good with nearly all of them. My 800s sounds sounds great when on DC power.

Nope, I don’t have any other apps on my 17. I exclusively use the FiiO music app, from music off the sd card. Nothing has changed since before the update. Maybe I’ll do a full discharge and recharge of the battery and see if anything changes.

@FiiO Could you please look into whether battery life has been impacted negatively since your FiiO music app update several days ago? My battery life is much, much worse- last night I charged to 85% (my chosen full charging amount) and today, exactly 12 hours later when going out, the battery...

@Iowtwo - are you using streaming to listen to your music? @Ben86 - same question; from previous posts all I can think as to why my 17 never gets even warm is that I’m exclusively using music from the sd card. DC mode at home sometimes with HE-6, when out all-to-dsd with over ear cans. I would...

Well, I’m sure the Focal is easier to drive than the HE-6, so I don’t think that is involved in your issue. I’m astonished to hear that after an hour the 17 is hot to the point of you not really being comfortable holding it. The main thing of interest here is that I never use streaming services...

@MusicalDoc8 - I take my 17 out with me every day and it has never got even remotely warm. I use similar dsd files to you, and if not dsd I run in all-to-dsd mode, and it has never warmed up even a tiny bit. I exclusively use over ear cans, some of which need a bit of juice with no problem...

I’ve had my M17 for months now and absolutely love it. Simply not using desktop gear now, even for my HE-6. FiiO, if you’re talking upgrades, the onboard memory wouldn’t matter to me as I don’t use it, unless as said min 512. 1 TB would of course be perfect but that isn’t going to happen is it...

Greetings, I‘m in Europe so this might be moot as you are of course saying North America. But just in case … I migt be interested in the X If not, best of luck with the sales. Carl

Yep, driving my HE-6 powerfully, and with the all-to-DSD setting enabled, my M17 gets barely mildly warm as it’s sat on its stand. Really can’t see me having to ever turn on the fan.

Hey I just remembered something. Monoprice. I got a pair of M570 for less than £200 and was really impressed. Enough to order both the 1070 and the 1570. They are both excellent headphones, especially the M1570. They have got their fair share of hate, and all I’ll say is that they are on the...

Hi Of the three you mention, I own the 1990. I have a few too many headphones and have been slowly working my way through them with my M17. I’ve tried ten or twelve so far and only one sounded, shall we say a little unpleasant and that was my T90 Jubilee and almost miraculously, once I had the...

Hi, I basically re-purposed cables I was using in my desktop set-up, being two Titan Audio mains cables - one of their best from the wall out going to one of their 6-way mains blocks, and with another of their mains cables from the ifi elite to that mains block. I didn’t do any listening to...

I’ve been due another post to talk about a few more of my headphones and how I’ve found them with my M17, but tonight I have to post this as today I took delivery of the ifi ipower elite. I think I was holding off as I thought, well, it sounds so good on dc why do I need it. Three hundred pounds...

Just thought I’d leave some more comments using some more of my headphones with my M17. All of them being used on DC model; the jump in sq makes it almost obligators to use DC power, but I also check sometimes with battery. The Fostex TH-610 are driven fine off battery power, but of course are...

Good to hear; HD650 is another of my headphones that I’ve yet to try, but after reading your comment I will get them out next when I’m listening tonight. Glad that you’re so happy with your M17 being paired with the 650, when you also have much more costly cans to choose from.

Hi folks. (I’m okay, update installed!) I’ve had my M17 for five days or so and it’s been, er, fun. Today when out, with it standing vertically on a table while I listened, I caught the cable and pulled the thing over, with it hitting a hard floor. Thank christ it was in its leather sleeve, but...

@ viffer. Many thanks.

Yeah, tell me about it! I really don’t understand where I was going wrong, and I’d be curious to know how folks got that update installed. I did try using the Chrome browser to go to the update page and download it, but for some reason it wouldn’t download. I have no idea why. I’m genuinely...

I dragged the update APK to the device and it gets moved to Downloads in the window. I disconnect from computer. If I go to System Update, choose internal storage and click Downloads, there’s nothing there. I have no idea how to locate the APK on my M17 to then install it. EDIT - After all that...

Thanks for your response, but this does not work. It doesn’t bring up any update. It’s the Fiio music app update they announced a couple of pages ago, 3:0:9. I followed the advice about connecting the M17 to the computer, and transferring the file to the internal storage, and then locating the...

Re Double-two to wake - thanks for the help guys, I don’t have latest update that’s why I couldn’t see it. However, and I’m really starting to feel dumb now, how do I put the M17 into storage mode so that I can transfer the update? I cannot see where in the Fiio music app or the settings where...