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Was. It is no longer in development.
FiiO is no longer in the game to develop a portable media player!!??? Are they postponing it for after the E15...or is it just ...dead?
Was. It is no longer in development.
FiiO is no longer in the game to develop a portable media player!!??? Are they postponing it for after the E15...or is it just ...dead?
Presumably dead for now, possibly another DAP project in a year or two when they feel more ready.
hmmm that may be smart. FiiO is a relatively unknown brand in the world. Their revenue comes off us. the audiophiles. but not all audiophiles will need a DAP. and then there's the competition with HiFi man who has more money to go into R&D and marketing as they have expensive headphones to boot. :/ maybe one day when the FiiO name has spread they could go back and do this again
It is not about the risk at this point. X3 fails because of supplier issue, so FiiO want to bring the production in house. They will need a new team of engineers (which are actually rare in China now) that can do both R&D and manufacturing, especially on firmware development That will take a lot of time and effort so they don't want to rush it.
Can't wait for e17 to come out and try it out with my Pro 900s
My only concern is, hope amazon.com can ship internationally or at least amazon.ca can carry it so I can purchase it. Living in Canada sucks sometimes in terms of getting products.
Thanks bowei006 and ClieOS for your clarifications
Can't wait for e17 to come out and try it out with my Pro 900s
My only concern is, hope amazon.com can ship internationally or at least amazon.ca can carry it so I can purchase it. Living in Canada sucks sometimes in terms of getting products.
Thanks bowei006 and ClieOS for your clarifications
I also live in Canada and am worried about the same thing. I'd keep an eye on Headphone Bar as they're a Canadian company that stocks Fiio's current products (the only one I know of), so we can hope that they will carry the e17 and e15 in the future.
so when is the FiiO e17 due out anyway?
the output on my e5 is acting a bit wierd and i need a replacement
The e17 and e7 are very interesting products. I am thinking of trying a DAC, an Argon DAC1, which sells for a pretty ok price in Norway. Desktop. It has these specs:
- Stereo PCM D/A-konverter
- Maksimal bitrate: 24-bit/96kHz
- Digitale innganger: USB, optisk, coaxial
- Analog audio-ut: L/R (RCA)
- Chipset: 24-bit Wolfson WM-8740 (DAC), TI-DIR9001 (digital receiver), TENOR-TE7022 (USB-dekoder), NS-LM4562 (OPAmp)
Is it possible to tell from this if it is a better choice to go with e17? It has no EQ possibilities, this Argon.
Also, I am mainly using 44.1/16-files, so will I notice any difference between e7 and e17? Because I have a mac, and thus I can run an optic cable to the e17, and am I right to think this will decrease things like jitter? even though I have personally not heard such things yet, as I have never tried a standalone DAC. Is the optic-in a good reason even for 44.1/16-files?
Thank you