runnin17
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Well I have Amazon prime and ordered one with $3.99 overnight shipping. Expected to get my tomorrow. Should be fun
I just ordered one too. I hope the price isnt a mistake. I'll still get yelled at by the wife, but for that price, you cant beat this amp. Its worth the heat : )
Yes, I have.
I'm sure the problem lies close to the headphone outs. I don't know anything about amp internals but since both headphone outs see the imbalance issue, you can narrow the problem to be somewhere right around there. This is also supported by the fact that the problem persists with both USB and line-in. There's just some mechanical issue but I don't know what.
Idk much about internals either, but maybe ask about a refund or repair from Fiio? Also, random question, how does the E7+E9 pair with the HE-4?
FiiO E9 is nice looking, bad sounding... electronics trash - nothing more. It's a little better than FiiO E7 in a matter of amping (decent potentiometer instead of electronic volume control in E7), but both are worthless by messing the sound to the level of a cheap sub Hi-Fi electronics - the sound is really ugly!
If you have or/and like FiiO E7 as a DAC for some reason (I rather prefer very old multibit, cheap TDA1543), I recommend to buy FiiO L7, which is a cheap and simple connector to E7, skipping volume control IC and infamous TI Direct Path headphone amplifier of E7. L7 has a [mini]jack 3.5mm connector, and mini USB as well. The sound from L7 is much, much better than from headphone output of E7 or E9, but need to be amplified (at least by a current buffer).
FiiO E9 is truly worthless (like E5) - skip it, or you will be disappointed (it has a three op-amps and one TI head-amp in the path of the sound - summary: four internally overcomplicated and sonically sh1tty IC's, messing, intermodulating THE SOUND!). Is better to find some very simple A-class current buffer on ebay, or DIY kit of discrete [no op-amps!!!] JFET/MOSFET amp like this excellent, [IMHO] high-end Chinese "Breeze Audio E4" DIY kit: http://www.ebay.pl/itm/200611311603 , which topology is almost identical to more than decent Excelinear Hafler 9270.
EDIT:
I have a FiiO E7, L7 and I had for a few days this... this... this... FiiO E9 [borrowed from a friend].
I was comparing it to the plain and perfect cable - to no amping, because I have a DIY 4 x TDA1543 DAC, which this DAC chips alone (!!!) produce enough power [current] to run directly any one of my 250/600 ohm headphones without any additional op-amps, buffers, ICs, etc, etc. Dumping factor is the only problem, especially in case of bassy headphones like DT990, but the sound is like a living gold (in most cases, because of this duping factor - I have to make a A-class MOSFET current buffer to compare with "Breeze Audio E4").
My friend has fresh experience with his FiiO E9 and "Breeze Audio E4" DIY kit which I've assembled for him. There is a huge distance between them in favour to the "Breeze Audio E4" as a properly, musically sounded amp with full of microdetails, full of air, proper placement of the instruments, in comparison to this... this... this... FiiO E9 which is only technically, electrically amping... something, but not THE SOUND!
FiiO E9 is nice looking, bad sounding... electronics trash - nothing more. It's a little better than FiiO E7 in a matter of amping (decent potentiometer instead of electronic volume control in E7), but both are worthless by messing the sound to the level of a cheap sub Hi-Fi electronics - the sound is really ugly!
If you have or/and like FiiO E7 as a DAC for some reason (I rather prefer very old multibit, cheap TDA1543), I recommend to buy FiiO L7, which is a cheap and simple connector to E7, skipping volume control IC and infamous TI Direct Path headphone amplifier of E7. L7 has a [mini]jack 3.5mm connector, and mini USB as well. The sound from L7 is much, much better than from headphone output of E7 or E9, but need to be amplified (at least by a current buffer).
FiiO E9 is truly worthless (like E5) - skip it, or you will be disappointed (it has a three op-amps and one TI head-amp in the path of the sound - summary: four internally overcomplicated and sonically sh1tty IC's, messing, intermodulating THE SOUND!). Is better to find some very simple A-class current buffer on ebay, or DIY kit of discrete [no op-amps!!!] JFET/MOSFET amp like this excellent, [IMHO] high-end Chinese "Breeze Audio E4" DIY kit: http://www.ebay.pl/itm/200611311603 , which topology is almost identical to more than decent Excelinear Hafler 9270.
EDIT:
I have a FiiO E7, L7 and I had for a few days this... this... this... FiiO E9 [borrowed from a friend].
I was comparing it to the plain and perfect cable - to no amping, because I have a DIY 4 x TDA1543 DAC, which this DAC chips alone (!!!) produce enough power [current] to run directly any one of my 250/600 ohm headphones without any additional op-amps, buffers, ICs, etc, etc. Dumping factor is the only problem, especially in case of bassy headphones like DT990, but the sound is like a living gold (in most cases, because of this duping factor - I have to make a A-class MOSFET current buffer to compare with "Breeze Audio E4").
My friend has fresh experience with his FiiO E9 and "Breeze Audio E4" DIY kit which I've assembled for him. There is a huge distance between them in favour to the "Breeze Audio E4" as a properly, musically sounded amp with full of microdetails, full of air, proper placement of the instruments, in comparison to this... this... this... FiiO E9 which is only technically, electrically amping... something, but not THE SOUND!