[FIIO DM13] HiFi Balanced Output Portable Stereo CD Player DM13 Is Officially Released!

[hxm1]

@FiiO Willson , surely it can be rectified. The Redbook cd standard has been out for more than 40 years, and countless cd players have no problems playing cd perfectly. I have an old Panasonic disc man that plays all cds perfectly.
Please fix this. I bought the dm13 because I believed in the fiio brand. Thanks.

 

[ziplock]

@FiiO Willson - Greetings! I'm checking in to make sure I have the latest firmware available for my DM13 (non-bluetooth version). Is there an official download location I should be checking? Thank you!

 

[vancanhalen]

Been having a weird issue with the DM13-Bluetooth version, firmware V22-2, After charging for more than 12 hrs on a 5.0V 2.0Amp charger cannot get battery level past Bat-4 will not fully charge to Bat-5? Has anyone else seen this? I have tried other chargers and cables on my end.

 

[hxm1]

Been having a weird issue with the DM13-Bluetooth version, firmware V22-2, After charging for more than 12 hrs on a 5.0V 2.0Amp charger cannot get battery level past Bat-4 will not fully charge to Bat-5? Has anyone else seen this? I have tried other chargers and cables on my end.

I tried charging with the desktop mode switched on, and it eventually charged to Bat-5.

 

[FiiO Willson]

@FiiO Willson , surely it can be rectified. The Redbook cd standard has been out for more than 40 years, and countless cd players have no problems playing cd perfectly. I have an old Panasonic disc man that plays all cds perfectly.
Please fix this. I bought the dm13 because I believed in the fiio brand. Thanks.

@FiiO Willson - Greetings! I'm checking in to make sure I have the latest firmware available for my DM13 (non-bluetooth version). Is there an official download location I should be checking? Thank you!

We're trying to work out some kinks. You may not feel it.

We try to release the new version within 2 weeks.

But since the Chinese New Year is coming up, if you count the holidays, then it'll take a little longer

 

[castalla]

Any news on when it will be able to use the device as a standard usb cd player for Windows media player - maybe an upgraded product? I'm not really interested in ripping, just using as a standard usb cd-player. Thanks.

 

[FiiO Willson]

Any news on when it will be able to use the device as a standard usb cd player for Windows media player - maybe an upgraded product? I'm not really interested in ripping, just using as a standard usb cd-player. Thanks.

It is not a cd player, maybe you need a CD reader

 

[Cassandle]

Any news on UK availability @FiiO Willson? All stores I can find that are listing the product are still showing as pre-order, with no anticipated date for availability.

 

[greenflash]

Just bought the "transparent bluetooth" version in Amazon, came up as available, free shipping.. couldn't resist. Now to wait until late january/early february to arrive. Bought so many FiiO devices that well, I had to, as I'm quite intent on going back to CD (i'll still buy vinyl and do streaming but I have a zillion great CDs). My only doubt was about the quality/material/scratchability of the transparent lid, but I guess I'll find out A protector case would be a great accesory perhaps. This may sound silly but I will also miss it not having the FiiO logo in the cover but well you can't have it all. Really looks so, so cool.

 

[greenflash]

My use case is desktop mode in some place around my computer/living room. After reading the whole thing here this is my take:
- Don't care about ripping I have a computer/External CD Drive for that
- FLAC (not MP3) reading is quite .. important to me. Hope that works well.
- I care about the BT output even if it's not top notch
- As per reports the ESP doesn't seem to be necessary, especially in my use case.
Some reports here about skips are worrying, I hope they're fixed with fw updates (and please make FW updates available on the site if they're not! )

 

[scarista]

This is a nice, compact CD player. I'm very happy with its features and the way it sounds but the gapless issue is a nuisance. Very strange how its such a random issue. Looking forward to getting access to the firmware update that resolves this. I've experienced one skip during playback of a long CD, so hopefully that issue will be fixed by a firmware update too.

 

[greenflash]

This is a nice, compact CD player. I'm very happy with its features and the way it sounds but the gapless issue is a nuisance. Very strange how its such a random issue. Looking forward to getting access to the firmware update that resolves this. I've experienced one skip during playback of a long CD, so hopefully that issue will be fixed by a firmware update too.

Yeah I have a tabletop player so this will be for the fun of rediscovering music in different ways. I like it's compact but don't care about carrying it, so it's perfect.
The random gapless issue is strange (out of the top of my head I can only think of Dark Side Of The Moon or Marillion's Misplaced Childhood or Abbey Road in my collection? but sure there's a ton more ) I also read about the skips in *long CDs* specifically. From what I've read here the FiiO engineering/testing team didn't have that much of a CD collection to try more different cases?

I certainly hope the new firmwares correct these. The unit I ordered had just been made available so I guess it'll come with the latest (22.2 I think?).

Did you try a FLAC files burned disk? Sounds intriguing and quite useful.

 

[Safeinthemountains]

Did you try a FLAC files burned disk? Sounds intriguing and quite useful.

Why are you interested in FLAC files on a CD ? To me you can barely fit 2 or max. 3 albums on a single CD, so what is the advantage ??? I'm just curious...

 

[greenflash]

Why are you interested in FLAC files on a CD ? To me you can barely fit 2 or max. 3 albums on a single CD, so what is the advantage ??? I'm just curious...

It's not groundbreaking of course but 2, 3 or 4 albums in a CD can be convenient in some cases. I mean, I plan to make some compilations myself (a major advantage on vinyl records and even cassettes, as it's easy, fast and best-sounding!)

 

[Safeinthemountains]

It's not groundbreaking of course but 2, 3 or 4 albums in a CD can be convenient in some cases. I mean, I plan to make some compilations myself (a major advantage on vinyl records and even cassettes, as it's easy, fast and best-sounding!)

OK, for a compilation of ~30-40 titles, I see the point now !
It is true that I calculate using a 50% compression ratio but sometimes it can be better I guess, depending on the music itself.