[monkeybone]

  Honey, I've been thinking, and I love you very much.  How about I give you the X5 so you can truly enjoy your music, and I'll take the X3.  I love the way the X5 sounds, and I want to share that with you, I hope you love it too.

 ha ha ha ha ha. It's a risk, which may result in some "couch time"

 

[Paulus XII]

Ok, 2.19b sounds as good as 2.14b, so best SQ ever + improved stability = way to go. Now I'm happy

 
3.0 sounds too bad to be used by these ears. It's a truly sissapointement its SQ (IMHO, of course). Hope FiiO improves this in a future FW update. I'm patient and am happy, really happy with 2.19b till there (if ever...). If they don't, 2.19b gives me 90% of the SQ of X5, its stable for the way I use it, so I'm perfectly fine with the beta.

 

[johanchandy]

   
The current X3 firmware core is pretty much the same as X5, minus the difference in UI and a few of the features (i.e. EQ).
 
Personally I still find X5 to be a superior player without a doubt.

This is good to know 

 
 

  +1
I really hope they do
 

I hope they further tweak the sound so that the X5 is more comparable to the DX90 than it currently is. Reading impressions it seems the X5 sounds a tad bit harsher than the DX90, I hope Fiio gives this some attention!

 

[monkeybone]

  Ok, 2.19b sounds as good as 2.14b, so best SQ ever + improved stability = way to go. Now I'm happy

 
3.0 sounds too bad to be used by these ears. It's a truly sissapointement its SQ. Hope FiiO Improves this in a future FW update. I'm patient and am happy, really happy with 2.19b till there (if someday...).

Q: Where can I DL a copy of FW2.19b? It seems the beta testers are not allowed to share, but I'd like to try this out, if SQ is different from FW3.0.

 

[Paulus XII]

double post.

 

[doublea71]

Beware of anybody who tells you what you are hearing - it's much like a jedi mind trick ("...these are not the droids we are after...') and can implant expectation bias into those who are susceptible to the power of suggestion. Trust your own ear/brain interface.

 

[schlagsaite]

  Anyone got DSD working with Audirvana?

No one?
 
X3 with FW 3.0 as DAC on a Mac Mini.

 

[aangen]

I skipped the whole 2.14b thang, but I'm listening to my first song with 3.0. I set the bass at 3 and that is way to much so I rolled it back. Then set it back to 3 which is way too much so I set it back to 1. It's at 3 right now. Fun. So far I think FW 3.0 is one louder.

 

[nmatheis]

I skipped the whole 2.14b thang, but I'm listening to my first song with 3.0. I set the bass at 3 and that is way to much so I rolled it back. Then set it back to 3 which is way too much so I set it back to 1. It's at 3 right now. Fun. So far I think FW 3.0 is one louder.

Um, I'm just guessing here, but do you like the bass at 3?

 

[aangen]

I don't know yet. I see 4 is also an option. Must resist 4.
I am listening with B&W P5's at the moment. They are somewhat tubby on their own, but I can't resist the thunder.
(Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - No Quarter - Four Sticks, yow!)

 

[nmatheis]

I was listening with bass on 5 with my Yuin ok3 when going to sleep last night and forgot to roll it back to 0 when I plugged in my HE400 at work - YOWZA!!! Rolled that back to 0 pretty quick .

 

[ClieOS]

  I imagine you're right ClieOS, but cost vs performance, I'd be willing to believe the X3 is currently the better value.  Although, I wish the X3 had the same type of harness for the E12 the X5 does.

 
You can always ask FiiO to investigate the possibility. For what I know, X3 still has a fairly strong sale even after X5 release, and they already sold more X3 than X5, so there is the incentive for them to create accessories for it.

 

[rocker]

Anyone else try to play aiff files? I was listening to them fine on FW2.1 and now they won't play on FW3.0 at all and freeze my X3 - upon restart I have to reset all my settings, it goes back to factory install…weird?
I also see a bunch of goop on my card like .trashes and .temporayitems files...
when I look at the folders with AIFF files on them each song is repeated twice once with a dot prefix.
Sux - as I had a whack of albums on my card in AIFF.

 

[nmatheis]

rocker: did you transfer the files on a Mac (or other Unix-type system)? Sounds like you need to clean up the hidden files and re-scan your library!

 

[rocker]

@rocker: did you transfer the files on a Mac (or other Unix-type system)? Sounds like you need to clean up the hidden files and re-scan your library!

Yup - straight from iTunes to the card…what's up with that?