@FiiO
Hello from Ukraine!
I am generally satisfied with the headphones, but, unfortunately, there is a problem with condensation
Even after
5-6 minutes of listening to music or something else in them, the sound tubes are covered with condensate. Of course, I understand that this is ordinary physics (the human ear is warm, and the metal is cold), but hey, these are headphones primarily focused on portable use, right? That is, I leave the house, where it was warm, to the street = there is a temperature difference, which leads to condensation. Then I get into a taxi, for example, where again it is much warmer than outside. And again temperature difference! I get out of the taxi and again find myself on a cold street. Then I go into the building where I work, and it's already warm there. This I gave the most banal example of using any portable, in-ear headphones. I use my FD5 exclusively at home, but it still leads to condensation
And it’s okay there, if it were just drops of water on the sound tubes, but these drops noticeably worsen the sound! To my ears, this condensation degrades the sound — sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on the amount of this condensation. That is, I buy expensive audiophile headphones that cost over $300, and literally after a few minutes of using them, the sound in them gradually gets worse and worse (more blurry).
In this regard, I have a question for a FiiO representative: why do you continue to make metal in-ear headphones? Isn't that stupid? Because of the metal, they are heavier, colder (especially in winter it is very unpleasant to put them in your ears) and they also cause condensation, which spoils the sound and can eventually lead to failure of the drivers (I read reviews from other users of in-ear headphones with metal shells).
And yes, this is far from my first in-ear headphones with this problem. Condensation on the sound tubes formed on the following in-ear metal headphones:
Letshuoer S12 Pro,
MoonDrop KATO,
TinHiFi T2 DLC and some others. FiiO FD5 will be my last in-ear headphones with metal shells.
My favorite
Beyerdynamic Soul Byrd in-ear headphones do not have this problem because their shells are made of plastic. It's much lighter and they don't have condensation issues. I can use them for
5-6 hours without taking them out of my ears and without worrying about condensation. These in-ear headphones cost about
$90 and came out about
4 years ago! But despite this, Beyerdynamic took into account all these nuances and thought through everything in detail, unlike FiiO. So I'm looking forward to Beyerdynamic bringing the second generation of Soul Byrd's to market. Now I mainly listen to Soul Byrd, despite the fact that I have FD5. I also had the equally expensive
Sennheiser IE 300 (they cost
300 euros), which are also made of plastic and do not have this problem. My brother has a
Sennheiser IE 100 Pro. Their shells are also completely made of plastic and, of course, they do not have any condensation, even after prolonged use. My brother has the same problem with metal in-ear headphones, so he tries to avoid them and prefers plastic or acrylic in-ear headphones. Why do German manufacturers take this into account when developing their in-ear headphones, but Chinese ones do not? Do Chinese manufacturers really not care about this problem and their customers who will suffer from it?