Dear (head)audio enthusiasts!   As the title might suggest, I wondered whether owning the FiiO X3, makes buying the FiiO E18 (Kunlun) obsolete? Since the X3 holds the components of the well-appreciated E17 amp and offers the possibility to act as a DAC (and OTG).

I have the W3 (gold) 's for a year now in my possession and I am very pleased with it. However, I found the power in the low frequency / bass bad and I found them sometimes thin and shrill ... recently I found out that the DAC / soundcard of my laptop is very very bad. So now I listen from my...