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Great review - thanks.
Thanks for your huge, totally irrelevant post. I won't regret not seeing more of them in the future.Hi all,
I am coming back because after having returned my FiiO X3 III, I was waiting for the Shanling M3s... And now it is there !
And sorry FiiO, but I don't regret your product facing this new wonderful piece of technology ^^ R.I.P. X3 ...
Yes,Anyone know if the EQ is disabled when using Bluetooth headphones?
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Because you didn't read my previous posts testing and reporting about the FiiO X3 III, you think I am here to inform you how to read a thread ? Get back in past messages and don't annoy me with your irrelevant and unpleasant post ...Thanks for your huge, totally irrelevant post. I won't regret not seeing more of them in the future.
Scanning and the GUI are still slow. Other than that though - I do enjoy the X3iii. If you want something a little quicker, take a look at the Cayin N3
No - never had the X3iii freeze on me, and no library issues from day one (just very very slow). My music is tagged meticulously though, all aac256, and album art in each folder rather than imbedded in the file.
Well, so far it seems that a new SD card really has resolved the issues I was seeing. The library scan completed with no problem and so far the player hasn't locked up while playing any music. Now that I have something that seems to work as intended, I can see what people mean by the UI being laggy but I really feel like that it is pretty overstated on how severe it is. I don't know if I'd have really noticed without reading the reviews. Coming from the original X1, I do think this is quite an upgrade over what I had both from a hardware perspective and the sound quality. I think this does a better job driving my MEE P1s than my X1 did.
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Hey everyone, random question popping up here, I've had the Fiio M3 for a couple of years but it's getting laggy so I'm thinking about replacing it with the X3iii when it goes completely kaput, what I want to know is more about this balanced feature it has, is it supposed to make rock music sound better for example? I'm not that into audio lingo so excuse my ignorance. Also, what are some good iems for rock music? Been considering Fiio's F9, good pick for my taste in music?
Balanced/BAL basically means that stereo left and right channels are electrically segregated, compared to normal 'single ended'/SE output in which left and right share a common ("ground") - a balanced headphone plug will have four poles instead of 3. It is a design approach rather than something with any intrinsically audible properties, which will vary as with any other audio sources & not necessarily better than similarly good single-end designs, though often devices with both SE and BAL will be designed to favor one (there are practical advantages for professional & stage audio which is its most common application).
Brooko made some comments on x3iii's balanced mode in his review: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/fi...le-high-resolution-music-player.22545/reviews