After reading (thanks to you) @Ichos , @isayfu I tried to fix the problem with my Redmi Pad SE tablet and it's still the same, crash after a few tenths of a second of reading. You gave me the idea to use my POCO M5 with Xiaomi HyperOS, too, and everything works perfectly with the KA17. Long...

And I'm not the only one: https://forum.fiio.com/note/showNoteContent.do?id=202405191556104077466&tid=4

Good for you! For me, crash after a few seconds of reading!

It would have been useful if FiiO had said that the KA17 is not usable with Xiaomi HyperOS, which would have prevented some people from updating from MIUI14.

@vagnagor007 This is very well answered! This FiiO KA17, and even better with a good power supply (better than that of the Android, Windows or Linux player), a powerbank or other sophisticated power supply is truly musical!

...And why not a feature to trigger the coffee machine, while you're at it! ...I'm going back to my KA17 and its music which are already perfect like that!

ES9281AC supports MQA of course.

A comment from a troll. The UA4, like the FiiO KA17, has flawless musicality, but obviously preconceived ideas are very hard to forget, especially on Head Fi!

Good luck, but I think you'll have to wake up very early and search desperately! :beyersmile: With the FD7, a FiiO KA17 ES9069*2, XMOS XU316, and THX AAA 78, desktop mode with good powerbank is an excellent music source.

I much prefer this to the overly peremptory previous messages! :relaxed:

I do not agree at all. Between a Fiio FH9 which is truly extraordinary and a FiiO FD7 which is also excellent: the FD7 is also excellent (but different) in treble, harmonics among other qualities!

My FiiO system, my music; like a dream...

Difficult to quantify! In music... The KA17 is 50% more expensive, so 50% more music? Certainly not, but if the restitution of the UA4 is superb, KA17 is at higher level, naturally evident, airy, lively and beautiful. I keep both: the UA4 has such a low electricity consumption and it is a great...

I have both: and both Shanling UA4 and FiiO KA17 are musically excellent for the price! I'm not interested in power, only musicality and obviously the FiiO is superior: - More refinement - More clarity. - More subtleties - More legato - Finer, more subtle details - More distinct instruments and...

A few words will suffice: These Fiio FD7, this obvious! This music! So simple! So natural! Why not possess them sooner?

A very beautiful mechanism on this Shanling CD-T35, the Philips, a transport with the knowledge acquired with LP turntables, like many high end CD players in the 90s (and also expensive!) but sublimated with the magnificent current DACs. A beautiful object which when you have thousands of CDs...

Read old posts and you will have the answer. At least mine. In forums it is not those who accumulate the comments which represent the truth.

Oh it's very simple: for me all these buttons are just gadgets, I absolutely don't use them! (ditto for the screen, while it is essential for the intelligent Shanling H2). The UAPP, Neutron, etc. player of the smartphone, tablet, Windows PC, Chrome or Linux, has all the settings much better...

... an iPhone, and certainly some exotic reading software :beyersmile:

Really very little! To give an idea, connected to a powerbank with a splitter, the powerbank goes into standby position after a few seconds...(i.e. TempoTec Sonata BHDpro) For example an iBasso dc04pro or E1DA #9038 SG3 does not do it.

This is absolutely not the case. For me the UA4 works very well (very well and with excellent musicality, thank you!) with a Redmi 9 with android 12 & tablet Samsung Tab S7 FE with android 13, but not recognized with my Xiaomi Note 10 (android 11) or my Lenovo tablet Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus (mk...

Unfortunately on my Android 11 devices it does not work even with UAC1. But very well with 12 and windows 11, Linux, old windows phone.

I actually have both. Two excellent dongles, it is very difficult for me to give an opinion because I have only had the Shanling for a few days and what's more I have just changed the cable for my iem... This UA4 is a very beautiful object, well finished, well manufactured, the sound is very...

Shanling UA4 received yesterday. A beautiful object, well made, beautiful screen, excellent sound, very clear, very dynamic, very musical and which changes from others, very many recent dongles with Cirrus Logic or AKM. Does not work with older versions of Android.