Me too. I have F9+X5iii and looking for something to pair with my X7ii. How much better will these pair with x7ii compared with F9 or FH1? Big upgrade?

Will be very interesting to see if FH5 price premium actually stimulates more sales of FH1.

It would be very interesting if Fiio would evaluate your work & if they like it then build your improvements into their products. They should of course pay you something for the ipr if you were willing. That way, all owners could benefit from community experience & Fiio get a better product &...

It seems only a few months ago, Fiio were pushing balanced / infinity sound at every opportunity. Have they abandoned a key marketing strategy already?

If such adaptor is feasible then your idea would suit ALL users & Fiio still only pays for 1 quality cable, even if the adaptor adds a few $/£ to the MRRP - everybody happy!

Has Fiio moved away from Balanced or is there an optional extra cost cable to keep initial cost lower?

I have x5iii & F9 and wonder if the FH5 would pair well with my x7ii?

+1 x7ii (yet x5iii OK)

Yes, on my x7ii but not on my x5iii.

A 1st for me: Just paid 3x more for a couple of Bocelli albums @96/24 from HDTracks compared to buying the CD's on Amazon & ripping them to 44/16 FLAC. Enjoying the music very much but not sure if I'll make a habit of the higher cost option & files 3x bigger. I still remember the tactile loss...

Since 3-4TB of FLAC files implies a HUGE collection, why not consider buying a couple of 200GB micro SD cards, format them as NTFS, and sift through your CD collection for your top 15,000 tunes (1000+ albums) as you rip the lot to an external hard drive. Gives you a chance to think about what...

My own procedure: 1. Put cards in your computer rather than in DAP 2. Format as NTFS 3 Reload music overnight

Anybody got any news on FH5? Is it now a fixed spec. or are Fiio still testing reliability & different tuning scenarios before mass production?

Hi Brooko, what are the pro's/ con's of Neutron 'v' Fiio Music Player? At present, I just rip my CD's to FLAC using Media Monkey but I currently do not use it on or sync with either x5iii or X7ii. Would you say Neutron is the best music app for pc+Fiio? If so, maybe I could ditch MM Gold & buy...

Personally, I'm a happy basic user and agree that @FiiO probably are looking to their next DAP releases, but I'd still like better sorting and ReplayGain on the X5iii & x7ii. I think both of these fixes should be perfectly achievable and any code could be transferable across their current &...

Top priority, for me, is to understand how people see the synergy of F9/Pro v FH1 v FH5 with the X5iii & the x7ii, Waiting [almost] patiently.

Ideally, reference the x5iii versus the x7ii with each iem as that could fix my next purchase if you included fh5 when it is released. Much appreciated.

I have F9 and I have x7ii & x5iii so I am looking for 2nd pair of iem's. Not sure if I should get FH1 or F9 or if I can justify FH5 when released so I am hoping for best price & synergy.

Thought I had. Nice to know you think it good value - I was not so sure twice the price of Pro for an extra BA. But, ...

Is that about 4x FH1 or 3x F9 or 2xF9Pro?

Maybe if Fiio released more mature products then they could attract a retailer like Richer Sounds with quite a few branches. But, their rapid release strategy might prevent this & so only boutique outlets get involved?

Isn't it illegal for a supplier to dictate the retail price in the UK? As in other sectors, it seems that UK retailers accept the suggested US price & switch $ to £ but then some do offer discount codes & promotional offers like "Easter15". But, in a niche market like this, I can see why...

Why go "Pro" when F9 (non-Pro) are less expensive & also sound great?

I am a novice user of MM, so not sure if this helps you & I used MM Gold with my x7ii as x5iii not at hand: Created 1Test playlist in MM (10 songs). Right clicked PL & selected send to (sync) x7 internal memory. MM created a playlist folder on internal memory. Scanned x7 database & added 10...

If that happened to me, I'd probably just go the easy (but not short) route and reformat my SD Cards & reload them from MM or can you get MM to sync with your X5 & let it do the fix automatically?