[Andrew_WOT]

How about this design ?

Very nice, agree on moving clip closer to the top suggestion.
Sounds like we can also just glue money clip to existing case.

 

[FiiO]

THX Portable Bluetooth DAC/Amp BTR7 Design Story
Chapter 3 Bezel-less IPS Display
If we liken the display screen of the BTR5 to "the finishing touch", then the BTR7's would be like "a marvellous piece of work".
Although this color display is only 1.3 inches, it presents a "full screen" mood with the petite figure of the BTR7. The 240*240 resolution and 260PPI are still very delicate.
Displaying parameters is one aspect, it also depends on the design and application. Technology should put people first. FiiO's interaction designers focused on this point, requiring that the UI should enhance the vitality of the BTR7, and make a more vivid combination with ID. (See the video)
In addition to the improved intuitive experience, the functional interaction experience is more efficient. Users can perform most of the function settings and operations in the local menu instead of relying on the APP interconnection

Thanks to the dual DSP and dual-core CPU processing capabilities of the Qualcomm QCC5124, the language of the BTR7 can be switched between Chinese and English. So users don't have to worry about the language limits or picking the wrong menu, making it extremely easy to use

 

[Vijay74]

There seems something really wrong with EQ settings. It seems there is no absolute "EQ off" setting but only a relative "EQ off" setting taken from earlier preset EQ value. E.g. if set from Jazz to EQ off, its takes lesser Jazz kind of signature and if set from Pop to EQ off, it takes lesser Pop kind of signature! Both EQ off differ from each other! Hope FiiO does proper EQ page testing and fixes things. BTR7 seems to take different signatures at different times when fiddled with EQ settings!

 

[Andrew_WOT]

When you leave it at Off and reboot dongle, does it get back to true Off?

 

[Vijay74]

When you leave it at Off and reboot dongle, does it get back to true Off?

Yes it does seem to.
BTW, forgot to mention this issue was faced when connected to mobile in Bluetooth mode (LDAC) and tried to set EQ using FiiO control app on Android. The app seems quite buggy.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Yes it does seem to.
BTW, forgot to mention this issue was faced when connected to mobile in Bluetooth mode (LDAC) and tried to set EQ using FiiO control app on Android. The app seems quite buggy.

So dongle UI works fine, only control app has issues? The more detailed the report is, the higher chance for engineers to reproduce and fix it. Ask how I know.

 

[Vijay74]

So dongle UI works fine, only control app has issues? The more detailed the report is, the higher chance for engineers to reproduce and fix it. Ask how I know.

Yes dongle UI is good but app seems to have issues.
That us why in my reply above I tried to give more details. Just too lazy to.. better stay as consumer than a tester giving detailed env details, version used, steps to reproduce kind of technical and boring details

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Ran another BTR7 vs L&P W2 test over USB with newly acquired ThieAudio Monarch MKII.
Same conclusion as before, with BTR7 everything sounds bigger (is there some DSP trickery going on?), but things get mashed together on busy passages while on W2 it's more detailed with individual instruments standing out more clear with air in between.
As BT dongle BTR7 is outstanding, especially in forced LDAC 990K mode, but for low impedance IEMs in USB L&P W2 still has clear edge over it. Hope one day we'll see BT enabled W2.

 

[Quattro74]

What I love about the BTR7 is how many use cases it can solve for me, do I expect it to be THE best sounding dongle? No. I would like to see though how it does as a dongle for my laptop, running mac os, Audirvana, upsampling everything into DSD? And how that might sound from my i4s... Might be great.

 

[Johnfg465vd]

Anyone compared BTR7 against LGs Quad DAC?

 

[rlw6534]

I wonder how it compares (in sound) to the similarly priced Hiby R3 Pro. Now there's a device that meets a bunch of use cases and has wifi (Airplay, DLNA and streaming) and local storage and playback, etc.

 

[aravaioli]

THX Portable Bluetooth DAC/Amp BTR7 Design Story


PS: The single-ended output of the BTR7 is 160mW and the balanced output is 320mW,

Not really, as shown in real life tests…

 

[newworld666]

Not really, as shown in real life tests…

I think it's more concerned with the type of measurements you choose .. with 0.1% distortion or 1% distortion. The BTR7 seems to be 320mw with 1% distortion.

 

[Quattro74]

Anyone compared BTR7 against LGs Quad DAC?

I'm gonna do it. I have a G8X. I should get my BTR7 tommorow or Tuesday. I think the LGs do one chip in 4x parrallel, to get stereo. Thus Quad DAC. So maybe the BTR7 should be considered OCT DAC? With these Sabre32 chips they need the proper implementation to sound best. I think we could see more outta this BTR7 in future firmwares also...

 

[Johnfg465vd]

I'm gonna do it. I have a G8X. I should get my BTR7 tommorow or Tuesday. I think the LGs do one chip in 4x parrallel, to get stereo. Thus Quad DAC. So maybe the BTR7 should be considered OCT DAC? With these Sabre32 chips they need the proper implementation to sound best. I think we could see more outta this BTR7 in future firmwares also...

Awesome, I've got G8x too, along with G7. Waiting for your impressions.