[JamesFiiO]

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Would like to know this too, will be in guangzhou during the summer and i hope they have a distributer near the computer cities in Guangzhou, near Tianhe lu or Ti yu zhong xing or tai piing yang etc. 

You can have a short trip to our new factory, haha.  in fact, we will sell our products to oversea market first.

 

[latenlazy]

But you can actually sample stuff in Chinese markets XP

 

[ClieOS]

For what I know, not that many stores in China carries FiiO products. The Chinese are more interested in expensive oversea products than they do with local budget. oriented offering. That's why FiiO doesn't target the local market.

 

[latenlazy]

Most of the electronic markets in China sell knockoffs anyways. But I hope the ones that sell legitimate audio equipment will probably stock up on these. I was wondering if fiio has any distributors in 中关村 in Beijing or the 太平洋 mall in Shanghai?

 

[JamesFiiO]

The problem is that there are lots too many factory will make fake products, so we have to supply our oversea market first.
 
We have 9  agents in some big city. but we already decided to close all, because there are too many fake products, so it make us hard to sell our products.
 
and  as I know, there are more than 100 kinds of speaker is using the same outlook as our S3,S5, PS1110 and other model, and there are fake E3, E1, E5 and E7. 
 
 
BTW, it is a common situation in China, that most factory have not ability to design products, for most electronics products, from mp3 to mobile phone, even notebook, the common situation is
 
One design house design a turn key solution, they will design the PCB, software, and make the SMT, and sell the PCBA to assemble factory,
 
Some factory will buy some sample which they think the outlook is good, and clone the case , and sell to assemble factory.
 
The other supplier will provide package, cable, battery, LCD module, speaker drivers...
 
The assemble factory only need to hire worker and assemble all the parts from different supplier.
 
It is a very efficient way to make new products, and everyone save the cost, but the only result is they can not develop any innovative products but can only clone products. 

 

[ProtegeManiac]

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For what I know, not that many stores in China carries FiiO products. The Chinese are more interested in expensive oversea products than they do with local budget. oriented offering. That's why FiiO doesn't target the local market.

I was told the opposite. The local dealer for some Chinese HiFi brands in my area said I shouldn't shop in China because some brands sell cheaper versions at home to compete, and send out better units abroad, ie, one product he said had branded capacitors for the exports, some had better boards, etc. I said they could have been from different production runs, he said "yes," but of course the better batches are sent out for export. Now I'm thinkingm aybe he said that to make sure sales aren't taken away by people goingto Shanghai on business.

 

[ClieOS]

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I was told the opposite. The local dealer for some Chinese HiFi brands in my area said I shouldn't shop in China because some brands sell cheaper versions at home to compete, and send out better units abroad, ie, one product he said had branded capacitors for the exports, some had better boards, etc. I said they could have been from different production runs, he said "yes," but of course the better batches are sent out for export. Now I'm thinkingm aybe he said that to make sure sales aren't taken away by people goingto Shanghai on business.

Just to be clear, I am referring to Chinese audiophile. I have been posting over at erji.net (Head-fi equivalent of China) for quite some years now so I am pretty sure the audiophiles market there is pretty different from everywhere else. If you are referring to big brand electronics, then maybe there is some truth to what you are saying (I know Haier is selling much better stuff on their Japanese market). But for the audiophiles market, they are all relatively niche (even on audiophile market's standard) and doesn't obey to the common practice. In fact, most of the well known Chinese audiophile products here in Head-fi are not quite as big in the local market. For example, I haven't see any discussion of the upcoming E11 or X3 on erji.net, though they have both made quite a buzz here. On the other hand, they all seem to know about JHAudio and RSA.
 
 

 

[Genocide174]

I saw on the fiio site that one of your distributors in Hong Kong are mp4nation, are they legit sellers of your products? In that case I will let my friend buy it from there
 

 

[islubio]

yup they are. They have been carrying fiio product for quite awhile

 

[xStreame]

Does anyone know if the Headphoneshop KINGSOUND HK sell Fiio products? I got my Portapro's from that shop and they pretty much have everything for the headphonelover
 
 

 

[rydog]

First post everyone, glad to be here...
 
I'd like to ask a quick question as to when the E11 is supposed to be released?  48 pages is a fair amount to read though so hopefully someone knows this and can help out a newb.
 
Cheers,
Ryan
 
EDIT: did a quick search and initial results look like May?  Is this accurate?  
 
Also, I live in Calgary Alberta Canada, who sells fiio around me?  Thanks for the help folks.

 

[swbf2cheater]

they said they are hoping for a release before the end of april 

 

[TheDreamthinker]

still no fixed price, if i may ask?

 

[MorbidToaster]

This is a really tough wait. FiiO has some really great stuff coming.

 

 

[Pitch Black]

You bet it's a tough wait.
I've been tying up my fingers just to not hit the "buy now" buttons on other amps.
Hope it lives up to the hype.
 
MoBass is what i need!
 
Thanx!