[FIIO BT11] Portable High-Res Bluetooth Transmitter Is Officially Released!

[stickboy85]

So what's the consensus now it's had a few updates. Worth buying or should I be looking at the Creative BTW6?

Android user with Sennheiser TMW4 earbuds.

Thanks.

 

[imagpie]

So what's the consensus now it's had a few updates. Worth buying or should I be looking at the Creative BTW6?

Android user with Sennheiser TMW4 earbuds.

Thanks.

Definitely worth a try. I've been using it extensively for a couple of weeks now with the Denon Perl Pro and I'm very happy. It's a better experience for just music than with my phone's AptX Lossless.

Bear in mind the BT-W6 has its own yellow indicator for Lossless and purple for plain Adaptive, and the BT11 has just pulsing Green for both. But any time I've used multipoint and checked the Denon app, it reports Lossless.

It's not without its quirks, and the app is quite rough, but you shouldn't have to use it much beyond initial selection of codec (I unticked every codec bar Adaptive/Lossless). Creative only has a desktop app for its dongle. The BT-W6 has a more prominent issue with a two-second delay when selecting a new song in my experience, no matter what the codec. I use it casually with my work PC and it's otherwise good and stable.

On the other hand, the BT11, I was on a walk for about five hours yesterday around my city in the sun, listening to several albums right through with no issues, and the only issue would be it takes a second to get warmed up when you first connect. But I definitely prefer it for on-the-go. Also it fits better in my phone's USB-C port. I have a female-to-male connector for the Creative as it kept coming loose.

Both are good, but I'd certainly recommend the Fiio now.

 

[stickboy85]

Definitely worth a try. I've been using it extensively for a couple of weeks now with the Denon Perl Pro and I'm very happy. It's a better experience for just music than with my phone's AptX Lossless.

Bear in mind the BT-W6 has its own yellow indicator for Lossless and purple for plain Adaptive, and the BT11 has just pulsing Green for both. But any time I've used multipoint and checked the Denon app, it reports Lossless.

It's not without its quirks, and the app is quite rough, but you shouldn't have to use it much beyond initial selection of codec (I unticked every codec bar Adaptive/Lossless). Creative only has a desktop app for its dongle. The BT-W6 has a more prominent issue with a two-second delay when selecting a new song in my experience, no matter what the codec. I use it casually with my work PC and it's otherwise good and stable.

On the other hand, the BT11, I was on a walk for about five hours yesterday around my city in the sun, listening to several albums right through with no issues, and the only issue would be it takes a second to get warmed up when you first connect. But I definitely prefer it for on-the-go. Also it fits better in my phone's USB-C port. I have a female-to-male connector for the Creative as it kept coming loose.

Both are good, but I'd certainly recommend the Fiio now.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I've asked around to see who's got one in stock. Seems quite hard to come by at the moment.

 

[zaznetkherson]

@FiiO @FIIO ALAN After upgradento1.0.9 BT11 stop recognizing by PC or Phone by usb. He made one short blue light and stop working

 

[billybobby]

Trying to use this on a iPad Pro 4. Own a Noble FoKus Rex5 and Edifier Stax Spirit S5. I also own a LHDC One, Eppfun ak3040pro ultra, and creative BT-w6.

I use the BT-W6 for almost everything because it’s the only one that really works all that well. The Eppfun has no button and no app, and no acknowledgement on their own infantile website so for us iOS people it’s nearly useless unless you love LDAC 660 only. The LHDC One is pretty good but my s5 doesn’t appear to have LLAC (that’s LHDC’s excellent low latency CODEC) so it’s only good for music. And at that point I might as well use the BT-W6 because it has AptX lossless.

Now the BT11. I’d LOVE to see a video of someone with an iPhone or iPad actually using this mess. It insists on connecting by BT to the source device and doesn’t particularly like to do it. If you DO finally manage to pair it, trying to pair a headphone to the BT11 just crashes it. I find the updates have actually made it go from difficult to now impossible. The more they “fix it” the more complicated the device software is and the less likely I can get anything to work. With 1.0.9 I’m literarily done with this crap. At this point I try it every two weeks or so, waste half an hour again, and put it away - again. Oh the website Fiio control page does not recognize the bt11 is attached, I think, but who knows? Either way there’s nothing I can do with it.

Back to the BT-W6. The BT11 is a wonderful, amazing product on paper and a useless paperweight in reality. Fiio should be embarrassed. And I’d like my money back and an apology.

 

[FIIO ALAN]

@FiiO @FIIO ALAN After upgradento1.0.9 BT11 stop recognizing by PC or Phone by usb. He made one short blue light and stop working

It maybe have crashed. You need to restore the factory settings before using by FIIO Control app or website(https://fiiocontrol.fiio.com/).

 

[zaznetkherson]

@FIIO ALAN after 10 or 20 tryes he conneсed to phone and i'm install 1.0.7. all working

 

[nik8558]

They still haven't fixed anything on Windows 11, LE Audio and Snapdragon Sound don't work, they haven't done the divisions into different colors for Aptx Adaptive and Aptx Lossless either! I don't want to wait any longer, and I don't want to buy any other products from Fiio with this approach to customers!

 

[noris]

What was once thought to be a groundbreaking product turned out, in reality, to be far from a finished product - more like an alpha version, I think. Of course, supporting such a product was out of the question, and in Japan, BT11 has already been discontinued. Maybe the distributors lost patience?

With unresolved issues and unimplemented features left untouched, FiiO remains silent without presenting any future plans, as if trying to cut and run. Whether this is a strategic decision or simply a situation where technical or resource constraints make it difficult to respond, it has been left unaddressed for a long time without a clear explanation, and now the only remaining doubt is whether it will simply fade away.

 

[scracy]

BT11 is probably the worst product FiiO has ever made tbh.

 

[FiiO Willson]

BT11 is progressing very slowly due to technical limitations on the software side.
But LDAC launch based on Qualcomm chips, we do have long term plans.

We will follow up with products to do launches similar to this and will not give up. BT11 will also be updated all the time, it's just a matter of time!
In fact, BT11 is like a basic kernel around which all future products will be built, so it will be done, it's just a matter of time.

Now there are several Bluetooth transmitter products like BT11 out there, which are also difficult to update in terms of new technology, and still none of them have achieved stable LDAC transmitter so far. Also side note these are technical issues

We are also seeking technical support from Qualcomm, but this is very slow, but I think these will be solved sooner or later, so please give us some more time!

It was our decision to reduce production of the BT11, he's a good product but due to technical constraints can't satisfy everyone and will have to wait until the technology is sorted out before mass production is possible

 

[AcademicBarzo]

BT11 is progressing very slowly due to technical limitations on the software side.
But LDAC launch based on Qualcomm chips, we do have long term plans.

We will follow up with products to do launches similar to this and will not give up. BT11 will also be updated all the time, it's just a matter of time!
In fact, BT11 is like a basic kernel around which all future products will be built, so it will be done, it's just a matter of time.

Now there are several Bluetooth transmitter products like BT11 out there, which are also difficult to update in terms of new technology, and still none of them have achieved stable LDAC transmitter so far. Also side note these are technical issues

We are also seeking technical support from Qualcomm, but this is very slow, but I think these will be solved sooner or later, so please give us some more time!

It was our decision to reduce production of the BT11, he's a good product but due to technical constraints can't satisfy everyone and will have to wait until the technology is sorted out before mass production is possible

The product is a bad joke - as are these increasingly hollow promises of support. It's "a good product", is it? A total waste of money as a purchase is what is has been and this has resulted in the loss of all goodwill to Fiio. I'll never purchase another Fiio product based on this experience.

 

[noris]

Is the LED color still different from the official info due to lack of support from the chip vendor...? What is preventing application localization so that important text related to the latest feature updates appears as meaningless strings like source code labels...? Except the issues that have been stalled due to technical constraints, is there really nothing else remains to be done now?

 

[Dtuck90]

While the BT11 has its problems, LDAC itself is inherently problematic. Sony can’t even get it right between their Walkmans and headphones and it’s their technology

 

[helmutcheese]

That is a moot point as LDAC does not belong on a QUALCOMM chipset, it is being shoehorned in using the Lossless compression it uses to get CD quality 1411k over a 1200k (1.2Mb/s) stream as it normally takes 2 data streams for LDAC and that is why it will only work beyond 600k if the other device connected to it is also Snapdragon Cert'd.