Andrew Rieger
500+ Head-Fier
How good is the quality of the X5 III's coax out to an external DAC?
How good is the quality of the X5 III's coax out to an external DAC?
Dear HyperDuel,
The same TF card works well in the SD card slot 1, right? Would you mind formating the card to other format to see whether it helps? Sorry for bringing incovnenience to you.
Best regards
I have not used the ipod touch range, however, I do have two 160GB ipod classics sitting in a storage box, therefore this is a bit of an assumption, but I will assume that their sound signatures are similar. If so, then I can tell you that these players are nothing alike.
I ditched my ipods after hearing the DAC on my Note 3, which led me to buying a Fiio X5II as I wanted a dedicated DAP. On listening to the Fiio X5II I realised that I could never go back to my ipods. This new X5III is even better, compared to the ipod everything is so much clearer and natural sounding, to my ears the ipod sounds like it is playing through a veil being smothered etc.
All I can say is, if you can, trial it. I purchased my first Fiio blind and thankfully it paid off for me, but as I have found here, everyones taste is different.
I have not used the ipod touch range, however, I do have two 160GB ipod classics sitting in a storage box, therefore this is a bit of an assumption, but I will assume that their sound signatures are similar. If so, then I can tell you that these players are nothing alike.
I ditched my ipods after hearing the DAC on my Note 3, which led me to buying a Fiio X5II as I wanted a dedicated DAP. On listening to the Fiio X5II I realised that I could never go back to my ipods. This new X5III is even better, compared to the ipod everything is so much clearer and natural sounding, to my ears the ipod sounds like it is playing through a veil being smothered etc.
All I can say is, if you can, trial it. I purchased my first Fiio blind and thankfully it paid off for me, but as I have found here, everyones taste is different.
I'm getting low speeds (10-15MB/sec) when copying files to the SD cards.
I expected these speeds when connecting the X5 to the computer with USB, since that's USB 2.0
But I'm also getting these speeds when I use the cards in a memory card reader (Kingston FCR-HS4, USB3)
that's supposed to go upto 100MB/sec.
I'm using Sandisk Ultra 200MB SD's. Formatted in the X5, so I guess they are formatted as FAT32.
Any thoughts?
I just made my first backup using the Kingston card reader and getting 70 upto 85MB/sec reading speeds!
Which is totally cool with me. Making backups is the most timeconsuming activity anyway.
Won't be adding much music anyway when I'm done filling the cards. I do make backups a lot though.
I just made my first backup using the Kingston card reader and getting 70 upto 85MB/sec reading speeds!
Which is totally cool with me. Making backups is the most timeconsuming activity anyway.
Won't be adding much music anyway when I'm done filling the cards. I do make backups a lot though.
Memory cards aren't meant for long term storage. I've had problems getting data off cards I've let sit for a year or more.
I just made my first backup using the Kingston card reader and getting 70 upto 85MB/sec reading speeds!
Which is totally cool with me. Making backups is the most timeconsuming activity anyway.
Won't be adding much music anyway when I'm done filling the cards. I do make backups a lot though.
Memory cards aren't meant for long term storage. I've had problems getting data off cards I've let sit for a year or more.
Hello everyone,
I was recently gifted this beautiful player, and I've been doing my best to trying to figure out how to get what I want out of it. Sadly, I feel I'm a little bit over my head. I'm sorry if these are basic questions, but I've looked around and can't quite really find a good place to start.
I'll let you know what I'm ideally looking for, and hopefully there will be some way to make this possible!
Currently, my library exists under itunes, and since itunes doesn't support flac files, I have copies of both flac and alac for a large part of my library. I'd like to move to musicbee or another music program that plays flac files so I can do away with alac files.
1) My first main concern is the syncing process. I hoping for something not too far off from syncing an ipod to itunes in that after I add an album to my manager (let's just use MusicBee for example), whenever I hook up my x5 to my computer, that newly added album to my library will sync onto my fiio as well. Which music managers could make this possible?
2) My second concern is play counts. All posts pertaining to this are usually from 2015 or before, and they often result with a) fiio players don't track play counts and b) someone asking why does anyone care about play counts?
As for the latter, I think it's just something people do or don't care about, and there's no sense trying to convince one of feeling the other way about it. Concerning the former point, a lot of the posts came before the x5iii was anywhere on the radar. I hope with the expanded functionalities the x5 utilizes, this can perhaps be a possibility now.
And with this same hope, I question the possibility of
3) last.fm scrobbling
Whether it's scrobbling straight from the player (like what happens with the last.fm app, and when you listen to music on your phone), or the old fashioned way (where you listen to a song ten times on your player, it syncs those ten plays to your iTunes/musicbee/etc, and from there, the last.fm plugi/desktop app scrobbles it to your account). I tried it with the last.fm app installed on the x5, but it didn't work when listening to music through the Fiio player app. Perhaps I should use a third party player app (at the risk of losing functionality/benefits of the fiio player app >< )?
Any help, direction, links, etc would be wholly appreciated!
Amazon Red Anodized Aluminum cellphone stand turned into a Dock/Holder for my Red X5.
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