[gus6464]

Got my E10 today from Adorama as well. So good with my AD700's and COPs.

 

[Hal Rockwell]

The volume pot of my Fiio E10 started making crackling noises so I contacted Fiio and they offered to send me a replacement pot for me to install on my own.
The only problem is no matter what I tried I couldn't take the PCB out of the chassis. I only managed to open the back cover.
Does anyone have any idea how to extract the Fiio E10 PCB so I can replace the pot?
 
I have the latest E10 revision. It doesn't have the screw on the bottom to hold the PCB in place.

 

[TulianJan]

I'm about to purchase one of these.. and I too would be interested in the ease of disassembling the e10 if I ever had to replace anything?

 

[Cardiel]

Is the fiio e10 a dark sound signature? I wouldnt like it if it would add treble to my Sennheiser HD 598.

 

[Seekky]

have clicking noise only on my desktop, but not laptop, dunno why.

 

[asko]

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have clicking noise only on my desktop, but not laptop, dunno why.

I have crackling noises on my laptop too but there is no crackling on my gf's laptop. When I choose 32000 kHz, crackling is gone, when I choose greater frequency on bit depth... crackling increases and sounds make slower. Looks like my laptop is too slow to decode musical signals (actually I have 2 core AMD with 2.1 MHz).
 
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Is the fiio e10 a dark sound signature? I wouldnt like it if it would add treble to my Sennheiser HD 598.

Yes.

 

[Seekky]

I dunno how, but my issue is gone. Maybe I disabled my x-fi soundcard

 

[asko]

Could you reproduce this bug to understand the cause of it?

 

[Seekky]

you can try to disable your soundcard as i did. and see what happen

 

[Bboy500]

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Hi, I am going to buy Audio Technica ATH-AD700 headphones that will be used mainly for gaming / movies on my desktop. Therefore I would like to upgrade my on-boar sound card (realtek HD). Do you think that it is better to buy Fiio E10 or some Internal sound card (like ASUS Xonar DX/XD Retail or something similar) for +- same money ? Or, I am thinking about Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional as well, is it worth the money?
 
Thanks for help.

I know I'm probably late since this post was 3 weeks ago, but do NOT buy the FiiO E10 if your planning on gaming.
 
I have to constantly switch to my Xonar DG before I start gaming if I want to hear the difference between Left/Right or any positional sounds in general.
 
CS:GO + E10 = No idea where enemies are coming from
CS:GO + Xonar DG = Amazing positioning, almost pin-point.
 
The E10 is not made with gaming in mind. Music is awesome on it though.

 

[asko]

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you can try to disable your soundcard as i did. and see what happen

 
It just doesn't fix the problem.

 

[POKeefe]

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I know I'm probably late since this post was 3 weeks ago, but do NOT buy the FiiO E10 if your planning on gaming.
 
I have to constantly switch to my Xonar DG before I start gaming if I want to hear the difference between Left/Right or any positional sounds in general.
 
CS:GO + E10 = No idea where enemies are coming from
CS:GO + Xonar DG = Amazing positioning, almost pin-point.
 
The E10 is not made with gaming in mind. Music is awesome on it though.

Do you have any recommendations for a USB card/DAC to pair with AD700's then? I have an ITX system, so I cannot get a Xonar DG.

 

[Terran]

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I know I'm probably late since this post was 3 weeks ago, but do NOT buy the FiiO E10 if your planning on gaming.
 
I have to constantly switch to my Xonar DG before I start gaming if I want to hear the difference between Left/Right or any positional sounds in general.
 
CS:GO + E10 = No idea where enemies are coming from
CS:GO + Xonar DG = Amazing positioning, almost pin-point.
 
The E10 is not made with gaming in mind. Music is awesome on it though.

Are you using the soundcard without any of the virtual surround things enabled?
And is the HT Omega Claro+ a good enough soundcard for gaming?

 

[Arkyle]

I just got mine a few hours ago. Pretty good. I really needed a DAC; my sound cards are really mediocre. It makes a world of difference, specially with IEMs when it comes to sound quality. The bass boost isn't as bloated as I feared and I have been using it constantly. Pretty good investment. I'm currently building a hybrid desktop amplifier based on the basic framework of the starving student amp; I hope they end up being a good pair. It doesn't sound so good with the other pure solid state amplifiers I've built. I have no clipping problems...yet. Lets see how it goes. 
 
Oh...wow, and it actually makes the klipsch S4 more tolerable. 

 

[Seekky]

Nvm,The clicking issue is back to me..
But i notice that the problem only exist on my desktop.
With my Alienware M11x R2 laptop, it has no clicking at all.
 
WEIRD