[BlackbeardBen]

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So are we going to have some type of cage match or brawl to see who gets the first demo E11s to test and review?  
 
*picks up battle axe and helmet

Or we could have a regular ordinary Swedish cook-off.

 

[lee730]

Man I really wanna know when this amp will be released. Please let me know if we can pre-order. Can we get a discount if we do so? Thanks.

 

[roker]

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Man I really wanna know when this amp will be released. Please let me know if we can pre-order. Can we get a discount if we do so? Thanks.

 
yeah that'd be cool and it'd result in some word-of-mouth advertising
 
 

 

[Anaxilus]

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I hope skylab and clieOS get the demo, they really provide some great reviews.
 

 
skylab has retired from reviewing portable amps.
 
 

 

[ClieOS]

Hopefully I will get a beta unit for testing. I won't expect it to beat 3MOVE or Stepdance for the asking price, but if it can measure up to or surpass T3D, it would have been a major step forward for FiiO current line-up.

 

[audionewbi]

I am more curious on how it can compete with amps of similar size, for example the arrow.
As size limitation is where the issue is for portable amps (Not transportable amp)




 

 

[audionewbi]

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skylab has retired from reviewing portable amps.
 
 

did not know, it is a shame. But thanks you for letting me know and thanks to him for all his past wonderful services to the hifi community.
 

 

[justie]

I hope it has a combo offer as well..juz like how if u buy a fiio e7 and 9 together, u get them at a cheaper price. Of course the main reason for this is because I haven got myself a fiio e9. I bought the e7 3 weeks before they released e9 T.T
 

 

[JamesFiiO]

Very Sorry, the new PCB layout design had been proved it can not prevent the GSM interference as we expect, so we will try to use 4 layer PCB, so the schedule need is delay now.
 
I know there are lots of friend are waiting for it, I am very sorry for that and will try out best to puch the schedule.
 
BTW, L7, L9 aleady under manufacture, and we already purchased all the IC that E11 need, so the schedule will not be delayed by the supply problem like E7 and E9.

 

[audionewbi]

I am sure the demo release to the reviews does not need to be GSM proof, it would be nice if you can make some demo and allow some reviews to be release
 
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Very Sorry, the new PCB layout design had been proved it can not prevent the GSM interference as we expect, so we will try to use 4 layer PCB, so the schedule need is delay now.
 
I know there are lots of friend are waiting for it, I am very sorry for that and will try out best to puch the schedule.
 
BTW, L7, L9 aleady under manufacture, and we already purchased all the IC that E11 need, so the schedule will not be delayed by the supply problem like E7 and E9.

 

 

[JamesFiiO]

About the pre order,  due to we are not sell our products directly to our end user, so it is a little hard to arrange pre order, but maybe you can ask your local sales agents/distributor to do that,.
 
About the retail price, we will suggest our sales agend sell it in a reasonable price, and assign a mininum retail price for it, but the final price should be decided by our sales agents/distributor.
 
I hope you buy our products from our official seller who listed in our website, otherwise, you can not get local service and not need to send back the defective unit to us because you need to pay expensive  freight.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

As much as I'm willing to splurge on the E11, I know I'd have zero use for it. I just don't need portable amps. I don't ever move my E7 from the E9's dock. If my phone (HTC G2) had line out capabilities, THEN I'd most definitely use the E11. Until then, I'll be waiting on the E17. I want a DAC upgrade even though I'm perfectly happy with the E7 as is. If I get the Schiit Lyr as I'm planning to later on in the future, the E9 will be my transportable amp, while the Lyr is permanently placed at my desktop in preparation for the HE-6 or whatever comes out that needs massive power.

 

[JamesFiiO]

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I am sure the demo release to the reviews does not need to be GSM proof, it would be nice if you can make some demo and allow some reviews to be release
 


 

 
 
Yes, sometime we do that, but I hope we can provide better sample. in the past, we only send one sample to ClieOS, but this time we need to send out about 7 samples to more people, and please don't ask us to send review sample, because
 
there are some people already have the qualification to get free sample in this thread  

Result of FiiO’s volunteer selected  http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/510572/result-of-fiio-s-volunteer-selected  ,  of  course, we will also send to ClieOS and Headfonia and some people.

 
 
 
 

 

[audionewbi]

Glade to hear ClieOS is getting the demo, I really want to hear a review soon. 

 

[JamesFiiO]

About E17, we plan to use the similar outlook as E7, of course we will upgrade the DAC, amp section and will support 96k/24bit USB, and optical/coaxial digital audio input.
 
And we will also release a cheap optical/coaxial digital audio to RCA audio convertor which designed to home use, maybe head-fi'er will not interested in it, but we do have lots of project this year and the business will expant to other market.
 
Next month we will move to new factory which the area is two times as now, and we still busy in making enough E1,E3,E5,E7,E9,A1,L3, it is crazy because our warehouse is empty now so we have nothing to sell now, and I had never expect
 
we can still sell so many E3 now. Also we will make some L30 ( 1M length L3), and L50(1M length L5) , because our partner Oayaide already sold it for quite long time and it is quite popular in Japan market.