[apaar123]

Does anyone know what is the expected price?

 

[bodopopa]

How would q5 be in terms of sound quality in respect to fiiox5 sg? Will there be a x5 3rd gen with theese specs in the future?

 

[duyu]

Hi, duyu
Sorry for misunderstanding what you mean before. There may be a cable comes with Q5 which helps collect the Q5 to your iPhone products.  

Hope this is a solution for listening HD music on the iPhone 7. The dac and amp in the convertors couldn't be very good.

 

[Zodler]

Wouldn't it be much better if it had a small screen like ALPEN 2-E17K? Isn't the screen necessary especially for receiving audio from smartphones? With screen you can check if you are receiving the correct native bitrate sample rate.

 

[Yethal]

Wouldn't it be much better if it had a small screen like ALPEN 2-E17K? Isn't the screen necessary especially for receiving audio from smartphones? With screen you can check if you are receiving the correct native bitrate sample rate.

That's a lot of energy wasted just to check the bitrate.

 

[White Lotus]

That's a lot of energy wasted just to check the bitrate.

 
And additional cost 

 

[Zodler]

Both not true. ALPEN 2-E17K with a screen is cheaper than KUNLUN-E18 with no screen.
 
The screen of course turns off automatically and is not always on. It's important because there are a ton of FLAC apps and supposedly high resolution iOS audio players but they don't output correctly the native digital audio. They convert. The screen is a must to see if you get the proper audio.

 

[White Lotus]

Regardless of the two (completely different) products you mentioned, it would cost FiiO more to implement a screen on this device.

Chord Mojo gets away with not having a screen.

 

[Yethal]

Both not true. ALPEN 2-E17K with a screen is cheaper than KUNLUN-E18 with no screen.

The screen of course turns off automatically and is not always on. It's important because there are a ton of FLAC apps and supposedly high resolution iOS audio players but they don't output correctly the native digital audio. They convert. The screen is a must to see if you get the proper audio.

A) use UAPP it always outputs unconverted unless you specifically ask it to.
B) if You're able to hear the difference between resampled and non-resampled tracks then You don't need a screen.

 

[ph0n6]

Wonder if Fiio will provide Micro to Type C cables, the micro to micro is pretty easy to find nowadays but not so with type C.

 

[Ciuvn]

  Both not true. ALPEN 2-E17K with a screen is cheaper than KUNLUN-E18 with no screen.
 
The screen of course turns off automatically and is not always on. It's important because there are a ton of FLAC apps and supposedly high resolution iOS audio players but they don't output correctly the native digital audio. They convert. The screen is a must to see if you get the proper audio.

more over, does SQ of E17k equal to E18? 

 

[Zodler]

Chord Mojo gets away with not having a screen.

 
Great that you mentioned Chord Mojo. Chord Mojo does have a "screen". They recognize that it's important to show us what audio frequency it is receiving. They use colors on the power button to inform us which does the same job as a screen. If Q5 doesn't want to use a screen, it would be great to use colors like mojo.

 

[TheoS53]

Wonder if Fiio will provide Micro to Type C cables, the micro to micro is pretty easy to find nowadays but not so with type C.

I don't think the micro-to-micro cable that came with the E18 is actually an OTG cable. I remember tryinf to use it with the Mojo, but that didn't work.

I also vaguely remember reading something about Fiio using a proprietary 11-pin connection 

 

[RedJohn456]

Having finally tried the X7 amp modules it makes me even more excited for the Q5 and amp modules

 

[VaporImitation]

I guess this will support Apt-x but not apt-x HD, right ?