My M11 arrived and after a quick charging I started playing with it. Very nicely built, fast and fluid interface, amazing quality for the money! My first Fiio DAP was the X3 II, not too bad, but the M11 looks like it is coming from another universe in comparison
Dropped two micro SD cards in, a Samsung 256 GB and a SanDisk 200GB, both recognised and scanned without any issues. I have formatted the SanDisk one in the unit, just to see how that work. No issues. The only problem so far is that Tidal would not use the microSD card for storage. I will have to look into that as the internal storage is very small and I'm not keen to fill it with tunes.
Sound wise I am still testing but so far I am impressed. M11 is driving nicely my Sony Z1Rs over the 4.4mm balanced port and the Noble K10 sounds really sweet driven from the 2.5mm balanced port. Will have to see how it compared with my MojoPoly but so far so good. What I can already say is that it has plenty of power and no headphone in my collection will be begging for more.
All in all, I think that the M11 is a steal at this price. I looked into buying an A&K DAP for 3X the asking price but the lack of 4.4mm balanced port made me go for Fiio. The 2.5mm ports are a joke and the sooner they die, the better. Sometimes I wish Apple used because it would have been eradicated by now
PS: just got confirmation my free leather M11 case will be on its way starting 25 June. Thanks Fiio!