LoveKnight
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Oh I have found the picture of new Fiio E10's appearance on their website. Hope the third batch or fourth batch will improve the quality of E10.
Thing is, with that one song, it's really persistent. And it's not there AT ALL with my ipod. I'm going to try to listen to more of my music to see if I can observe this effect with other music.
Their quality control isn't very good, as I've experienced channel imbalance issues with mine, but I got a replacement.
Try to contact the seller and see if they'll send you a new one.
Their quality control isn't very good, as I've experienced channel imbalance issues with mine, but I got a replacement.
Well, either their QC isn't the best or I need to start playing the lottery considering I was one of the lucky 1%.
To FiiO's defense, it is not about quality control, but the scale of operation.
A typical portable amp maker in the forum, say RSA, Headamp and even iBasso, etc. probably make less than hundred per week (and likely per month). A typical amp maker sells around thousand of amps the whole year. For what I know (as told by their authorized dealer), some of them sell only a few hundred a year. Only the most popular of portable amp maker sell over thousand unit. Because they sell so little in number, they can have the time to take care of every thing. Guess how many amps FiiO typically makes a month? Answer: Over 5K easily, and over 15K in a busy month. Even with just 1% of failure rate passes over QC in the slowest month, there are still around 50 bad amps in the market - and that is half the production number of many other small headphone amp maker out there.
Now if you think about it - if FiiO received 50 complaint in Head-fi per months, everyone will think FiiO has bad QC. Yet if another amp maker who makes only 100 amp per month get only one complaint, everyone think he has really good build quality. The fact is, they are both in the same 1% failure rate. Even with the best of QC, you will still see a lot more defected FiiO than any other amp maker simply because they are the largest portable amp maker in the world right now, and probably produce more headphone amp than all the other headphone amps maker combined.