I’m still not sure what to think about this channel, BUT…. NOBODY on TH-cam is doing this level of in-depth analysis of a product. These are EXACTLY the kinds of things I would want to know about if I were considering the Fiio. Production quality notwithstanding, this video took a TON of time and effort. Bravo.
@@dannyfannyfoodle He's even admitted on Instagram that he's biased. It was probably intended to be a joke but it's obviously true to anyone who's watched enough of his videos. Supposedly he was also sponsored by companies in the past and didn't disclose it until recently. Not sure if that's actually true though. All that aside, dude's recent videos just make me uncomfortable. Constantly puts his face right up to the camera while looking like he hasn't showered in a week and just rolled out of bed.
This video makes me glad I bought the Topping DX9. While it technically has less features, the features it does have were well thought out and the UX/UI makes sense. It’s also documented well in the user manual if you aren’t sure how something works. Fiio take notes!
Topping DX9 is a good amplifier, and it is great for listening to music, giving emotions, but it is not suitable for computer games. The FiiO K19 is more versatile and has a different sound. The FiiO K19 has a smooth, precise, detailed and natural sound. If you are bored, then you can adjust the DSP equalizer, and there will be an emotional sound, and if you are tired of emotions and want a calm sound, you want to listen to music with a neutral pitch, then you can simply turn off the equalizer. The built-in filters also significantly affect the sound of the video. Through my nickname, you can listen to how FiiO K19 sounds with HiFiMan Arya Organic in computer games. It's a pity that many authors just share their words, but don't let you listen to them. It would be better to let them listen, and everyone would draw their own conclusions." Words are difficult to convey the sound of.
Yep, I figured this one out! Took time to get it to recognize it. The first time this was delivered by Amazon I received the right box, but it was loaded with clay and paper to weigh the box down. The Amp has been removed. I had to battle with Amazon for a month to get my money back. I then ordered it again. This time it arrived. Despite the quirks, the PEQ software is the best! I can make my final PEQ adjustments on IEMs while listening live, in gain and frequency. This is the key to finding the sweet spot. For what I do, this is the best DAC AMP on the market. I will be at CanJam and talking to FiiO about the custom EQ naming. This is a problem. I export the settings, name the file and load it when listening to that specific IEM. They need more thought on renaming the custom settings for sure.
Great review. Quality of life is so important. The RME ADI can also save setups so when I switch between headphones and IEMs, I can double click one of the face buttons and have my EQ, gain, loudness, volume etc all set correctly. Incredible quality of life with the RME
"Which video specifically?" "Pretty much everything you've ever produced..." "That's fair" - HaHaHa : Self-deprecation always goes a long way. As does patience...by the bucket-load. Definitely a requisite for dealing w/ the FiiO's setting/remote/etc. Nightmare! Excellent review.
Thank you so much for this review! I've been considering getting the K19, but this video shows that it would be a lot more hassle to use than it'd be worth, especially for the price tag.
I get around these kind of issues by never buying these kind of products. It seems like they are made for masochistic geeks who are more into gizmos than actually enjoying music.
Great very informative and funny video. Suscribed! It amazes me that they obviously tried to attack the king of features, RME... If you do that, be sure that, just like RME, your features are useful and... Working flawlessly. So much functionnality issues for a piece of that price? Even if sounds great, it's a total no-go.
So I'll stick with the K11. To me, it has nothing left to be desired. I use both outputs (balanced/unbalanced), and enjoy the separated volume settings for speakers and headphones.
I upgraded from K11 which had been my daily for about 6 months to the K19 this week and it’s shown me that going from entry level to high-end can provide some perceivable differences in sound quality. I don’t know if it’s the dual ESS DACs or the more powerful THXAAA amp, or a combination of multiple components within the K19s design. but when doing my comparisons the dynamics, soundstage and imaging precision is on another level. I was skeptical at first thinking I’d made a midlife crisis purchase in the pursuit for the perfect end game device for both high res audio and gaming. But wow am I impressed so far.
Fiio has some products with the best concepts and specs, but they always come with very awkward user experiences. For example, I bought Fiio Q15 for the PEQ feature, but it can only use the PEAK filter! There are no shelves! That's ridiculous.
@@scientificaudiophile I guess that's how the industry (most companies) works for now. They keep releasing new stuff to catch customers' attention and desires instead of making a solid classic that can last for many years.
The PEQ has always been a bit of a sore point for a lot of FiiO's DACs. At least the new releases already got them working now. For the longest time, the BTR7 was also peak-only as well, but at least the current latest firmware has fixed that.
Oh dear, its £1k more then I assumed this sort of gear would go for. Shows how much I know about modern Hi-Fi, not a lot obviously. Luckily, no matter how great it sounds I don't like using headphones, quirky software or have the spare cash otherwise I might have bought it.
Shouldn't it have said "other bugs" ? Also, next time they design one of these, they should use your parents as a litmus test for usability. You can be compensated for your parents work. And maybe add a Diane Bish mode? We want a Bish x Science 🔬 collab
I can’t hear you in this video over the echo, An audiophile in an orange jacket should always have good audio in their videos. Get your sound together man!
I see someone is making up for lost time on a missed career in comedy writing/standup. It's nice to see that TH-cam can give old farts late opportunities that they missed in their early 20s by not being born in the right place or family. If Alan Rickman can start at 42, so can we all. With practice, you'll get better and better at delivery, and you can already write circles around most of the people who think they are funny on youtube - so you don't even need to improve on that. Good on ya brother. Funny stuff.
@@scientificaudiophile See, farts can catfish with the best too. "Look out!" to whoever Logan Paul's latest protege is, your days of punching random people in the face and getting rich off of it are numbered. Numbered in the thousands, but still...
You can;t polish a turd.Dual USB -C for an update.Props for the stick to -t -ive-ness to figure it out.I'd say frozen Chicken Kiev (market brand) and a Shamrock Shake.
Fiio has always been a disappointment to me. The finish and overall quality are iffy at best, and I won't be taken for a ride ever again. These guys are sloppy but they sure know how to make shiny brochures.
Really funny opening skit; but a little confusing. How did you know that the guy in sunglasses was not the escort you ordered? I used to know a guy who used "escort services, and he said that it's always a humongous surprise who they send, almost never a surprise in a good way. Well worse than food delivery, where they never get the toppings right. He says if you orde a petite blond escort, a guy with sunglasses and a leather jacket shows up, that's not that much bigger a surprise than usual..usual..The usual..usual..The man/woman womanwho takes your call often uses a voice modulator which changes the pitch of their voice. So you don't know if you are dealing with a man or woman there either. And what they charge he said is abysmal. For that amount of money you could bribe the librarian at the library.They usually wear glasses too.Only kidding about you though! I knew the guy at the door was really you. Maybe it was the light, but the beard looked like it had less dark areas. Now that's devotion. Shaving a dark area of yoour beard, so it looks like a different guy. Let's hope it grows back in dark, instead of gray.Unless you touched your beard up with gray beard coloring. Those companies that make gray coloring say that gray is by far, their worst seller. Estimates are that 99% of it is bought by criminals on the run. It saves them from having to shave their beard as a disguise. At least before Covid, which still is lingering on a bit. I once met a woman in a restaurant, and upon seeing me for the first time, she said "Your hair is gray." I told her to look closer, it's only about 1/3 gray. She looked again and didn't comment, until the server, a girl with a beautiful smile and nice white teeth came to take the order. "Did you see how white her teeth were?", she commented after the girl left the table. Her teeth were not nearly as white and she hinted that white teeth were freakish. I thought of saying, " your teeth are 1/3 a shade away from borderline white", sort of mid yellow, but didn't. Her insecurities were obviously at work.Talking of colrs; there was a person well known in the audio field whose last name was White. And another one whose last name is Gray. Can you name them? Hard question on the first one. But anyway it was really nice to see the simulated video portrayal of a bribe.in action. I think it would be far more ugly in real life. L.There are many suspects on here; but that's some conjecture I guess.
I only called a so called "Escort Service" once in my life, but your term "in depth" is a very good word. I think most of them show up for ONE reason, and it's only legal in Nevada. I know what my former acquaintance means though; the one time I did call, I got someone whose voice was many different frequencies; thanks to tbe voice modulator they were using and talking into. You can't arrest a compuer or a robot, I guess they were thinking.... The Great One, as I thought of myself back then, wouldn not have paid anyone for that. At a certain older age though, some may be reduced to that.We ARE getting older and shrinking and shriveling a little more with each year. However, some of us, like me, don't ever seem to get any wrinkles at all. Maybe a little puffing around the eyes, but that's about it. Reminds me though to measure myself again . I mean height height.of course. Some people can't measure themselves anymore,; (the other thing);.. you know! Of those that can, some don't think they "measure" up. That is not a good yardstick to go by; I'm sorry; I mean ruler. Our first gym class in our pre teens, where everyone has to get naked, to shower in front of everyone else; can be a traumatic experience for some. For many young men,, it is the first realization of how they measure up. I remember consoling one less than lengthy kid, sitting on the bench in the locker room after the shower. I could see he was shocked and depressed, (not by mine though) and I told him "You're young yet." .."Some of these are older boys". "Like that one over there, he was in the 5th grade for about 4 years". "And look at that guy; no on second thought don't look." ..."But he was in 8th grade and they put him all the way back to 5th grade!" He felt a little better; I mean a "bit" better, after the talk Speaking of mirrors, that's a good idea having a mirror right to the side of the door you go out. I comb my hair in the bathroom, and by the time I go through all those rooms to my door, to go out; my hair could get messed up by then. Mirrors and glass are the worst for acoustics though. To the side of my door is a glass of water, in case I get thirsty, right before I go out. It isn't a real glass made of glass of course.course.I know better than that. I think I'll put a cd near my door. I can have a look at myself in that.
Forgot to give answers to my question. The person with the last name of the color gray....is Kevin Gray, a well known vinyl lp mastering engineer. Record companies often make note if he mastered one of their lps The man whose last name was pronounced White, but spelled Whyte, was Bert Whyte who wrote an article for Audio magazine every month. Probably learned as much from his articles on audio as from anyone. Once I was in a bookstore and saw a guy in a seat against the wall reading Audio magazine, and I asked him "Are you reading Bert Whteyte? He looked at me astonished, like how did you know? A lot of people bought the magazine mostly for his monthly article.
I like ifi.. I have a lot of different dongles, all coloured in some way, because that's what I want. No need to use eq and add distortion. Mint jelly with rosemary lamb? Disgusting. You want a bit of demi glace on top, that's it. So you are saying the fiio is disgusting. Ok.
Disposable tech ! How many dacs come out per week? This stuff is non survivable and won’t be around by your next birthday. This stuff is the house fly of audio it’s obsolete the day they make it! It’s not McIntosh ! it’s not something you have for years or months. And all this streaming bullshit is the biggest con! How long will that be around ? But CDs and vinyl will be on shelves as long you keep them! As soon as they stop supporting it …it stops! Just like operating systems? Stop buying into the moment….it won’t last.
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Oh man. This made me laugh and yet it was altogether informative as well. Well done. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m still not sure what to think about this channel, BUT….
NOBODY on TH-cam is doing this level of in-depth analysis of a product. These are EXACTLY the kinds of things I would want to know about if I were considering the Fiio. Production quality notwithstanding, this video took a TON of time and effort. Bravo.
Thanks again!
What about the cheap audio guy? I heard he has very nuanced, and rigorously honest, analysis
@@Spractral Lolz!! Biggest shill on TH-cam. But he makes funny voices and is super “relatable”. 🙄
@@dannyfannyfoodle He's even admitted on Instagram that he's biased. It was probably intended to be a joke but it's obviously true to anyone who's watched enough of his videos. Supposedly he was also sponsored by companies in the past and didn't disclose it until recently. Not sure if that's actually true though. All that aside, dude's recent videos just make me uncomfortable. Constantly puts his face right up to the camera while looking like he hasn't showered in a week and just rolled out of bed.
lol, this channel is ridiculous. Awesome.
A refreshing change to atypical review channels.
And I thought playing records was complicated! GREAT review and video.
This video makes me glad I bought the Topping DX9. While it technically has less features, the features it does have were well thought out and the UX/UI makes sense. It’s also documented well in the user manual if you aren’t sure how something works.
Fiio take notes!
Topping DX9 is a good amplifier, and it is great for listening to music, giving emotions, but it is not suitable for computer games. The FiiO K19 is more versatile and has a different sound. The FiiO K19 has a smooth, precise, detailed and natural sound. If you are bored, then you can adjust the DSP equalizer, and there will be an emotional sound, and if you are tired of emotions and want a calm sound, you want to listen to music with a neutral pitch, then you can simply turn off the equalizer. The built-in filters also significantly affect the sound of the video. Through my nickname, you can listen to how FiiO K19 sounds with HiFiMan Arya Organic in computer games. It's a pity that many authors just share their words, but don't let you listen to them. It would be better to let them listen, and everyone would draw their own conclusions." Words are difficult to convey the sound of.
@@dragonsbreath8653 Thank you for this incredible insight
Yep, I figured this one out! Took time to get it to recognize it.
The first time this was delivered by Amazon I received the right box, but it was loaded with clay and paper to weigh the box down. The Amp has been removed. I had to battle with Amazon for a month to get my money back.
I then ordered it again. This time it arrived. Despite the quirks, the PEQ software is the best! I can make my final PEQ adjustments on IEMs while listening live, in gain and frequency. This is the key to finding the sweet spot. For what I do, this is the best DAC AMP on the market.
I will be at CanJam and talking to FiiO about the custom EQ naming. This is a problem. I export the settings, name the file and load it when listening to that specific IEM. They need more thought on renaming the custom settings for sure.
“So, Chris, you’ve got an idea for another audio review for us?”
“Yes sir, I do”
Great review. Quality of life is so important. The RME ADI can also save setups so when I switch between headphones and IEMs, I can double click one of the face buttons and have my EQ, gain, loudness, volume etc all set correctly. Incredible quality of life with the RME
If it's not plug-and-play, I'm out. The only reason I watched the whole video is because your videos make me smile.
Thanks.
"Which video specifically?" "Pretty much everything you've ever produced..."
"That's fair" - HaHaHa : Self-deprecation always goes a long way. As does patience...by the bucket-load. Definitely a requisite for dealing w/ the FiiO's setting/remote/etc. Nightmare! Excellent review.
Loved this review. as a Brit , I welcome you as an honorary brother
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you so much for this review! I've been considering getting the K19, but this video shows that it would be a lot more hassle to use than it'd be worth, especially for the price tag.
You can listen to how FiiO K19 with HiFiMAN Arya Organic sounds through my nickname and draw your own conclusions.
This is your best one yet!
Great video, maybe best yet, hilarious , good job, well done.
Thanks 👍
Bestest audio channel 👍🌟👍
Fair review. Three usb connections is comical.
I get around these kind of issues by never buying these kind of products. It seems like they are made for masochistic geeks who are more into gizmos than actually enjoying music.
That was a close call. I almost bought one, but ended up buying a use Chord Hugo TT2. Good review.
Good choice!
Amazing video
Glad you think so!
Thanks for the review! Now, if you own a K11 (two of them actually) is it worth replacing it with a K11 R2R? I can't sleep because of this.
Honestly, get the SMSL RAW.
You really shouldn't postpone attending AA any longer, that is Audiophile Anonymous.
Great review.
👌
LOL! Thank you for this video. you saved me $1300 :)
Glad I could help!
Great very informative and funny video. Suscribed! It amazes me that they obviously tried to attack the king of features, RME... If you do that, be sure that, just like RME, your features are useful and... Working flawlessly. So much functionnality issues for a piece of that price? Even if sounds great, it's a total no-go.
I noticed in EQ option for jazz. Is there one for pipe organ?
Unbelievably there is NOT!
It's OK. I forgive your poor video and audio for excellent acting and entertainment value!
So I'll stick with the K11. To me, it has nothing left to be desired. I use both outputs (balanced/unbalanced), and enjoy the separated volume settings for speakers and headphones.
I upgraded from K11 which had been my daily for about 6 months to the K19 this week and it’s shown me that going from entry level to high-end can provide some perceivable differences in sound quality. I don’t know if it’s the dual ESS DACs or the more powerful THXAAA amp, or a combination of multiple components within the K19s design. but when doing my comparisons the dynamics, soundstage and imaging precision is on another level. I was skeptical at first thinking I’d made a midlife crisis purchase in the pursuit for the perfect end game device for both high res audio and gaming. But wow am I impressed so far.
Fiio has some products with the best concepts and specs, but they always come with very awkward user experiences. For example, I bought Fiio Q15 for the PEQ feature, but it can only use the PEAK filter! There are no shelves! That's ridiculous.
It’s like they keep throwing sh*t at the fan, hoping something sticks, instead of just getting a product right.
@@scientificaudiophile I guess that's how the industry (most companies) works for now. They keep releasing new stuff to catch customers' attention and desires instead of making a solid classic that can last for many years.
The PEQ has always been a bit of a sore point for a lot of FiiO's DACs. At least the new releases already got them working now.
For the longest time, the BTR7 was also peak-only as well, but at least the current latest firmware has fixed that.
21:38 KY Jelly, Mountain Dew Edition. It was an honest mistake anyone could make.
Oh dear, its £1k more then I assumed this sort of gear would go for. Shows how much I know about modern Hi-Fi, not a lot obviously. Luckily, no matter how great it sounds I don't like using headphones, quirky software or have the spare cash otherwise I might have bought it.
hahaahah 3x usb ports for 3x the punishment
GM
☕️🍩
Shouldn't it have said "other bugs" ?
Also, next time they design one of these, they should use your parents as a litmus test for usability. You can be compensated for your parents work.
And maybe add a Diane Bish mode? We want a Bish x Science 🔬 collab
I like the Bish mode idea!
I can’t hear you in this video over the echo, An audiophile in an orange jacket should always have good audio in their videos. Get your sound together man!
The best dressed reviewer… and sober is for quitters !
I see someone is making up for lost time on a missed career in comedy writing/standup. It's nice to see that TH-cam can give old farts late opportunities that they missed in their early 20s by not being born in the right place or family. If Alan Rickman can start at 42, so can we all. With practice, you'll get better and better at delivery, and you can already write circles around most of the people who think they are funny on youtube - so you don't even need to improve on that. Good on ya brother. Funny stuff.
Thanks, but I'm only 25 yrs old.
@@scientificaudiophile See, farts can catfish with the best too. "Look out!" to whoever Logan Paul's latest protege is, your days of punching random people in the face and getting rich off of it are numbered. Numbered in the thousands, but still...
ROFL. 👍
K19 still sounds the same ?
But louder
@@scientificaudiophile Means more power ?
Yes
What happen to Crystal ??.
She showed up just after Steve Acoustic brought me another bottle of wine.🍷
You can;t polish a turd.Dual USB -C for an update.Props for the stick to -t -ive-ness to figure it out.I'd say frozen Chicken Kiev (market brand) and a Shamrock Shake.
Fiio has always been a disappointment to me. The finish and overall quality are iffy at best, and I won't be taken for a ride ever again. These guys are sloppy but they sure know how to make shiny brochures.
The Fiio BTR7 portable dac is one of the best pieces of kit I've ever owned.
Haha. Alcohol addiction is hilarious.
it’s not an addiction when it’s under control.
Really funny opening skit; but a little confusing. How did you know that the guy in sunglasses was not the escort you ordered? I used to know a guy who used "escort services, and he said that it's always a humongous surprise who they send, almost never a surprise in a good way. Well worse than food delivery, where they never get the toppings right. He says if you orde a petite blond escort, a guy with sunglasses and a leather jacket shows up, that's not that much bigger a surprise than usual..usual..The usual..usual..The man/woman womanwho takes your call often uses a voice modulator which changes the pitch of their voice. So you don't know if you are dealing with a man or woman there either. And what they charge he said is abysmal. For that amount of money you could bribe the librarian at the library.They usually wear glasses too.Only kidding about you though! I knew the guy at the door was really you. Maybe it was the light, but the beard looked like it had less dark areas. Now that's devotion. Shaving a dark area of yoour beard, so it looks like a different guy. Let's hope it grows back in dark, instead of gray.Unless you touched your beard up with gray beard coloring. Those companies that make gray coloring say that gray is by far, their worst seller. Estimates are that 99% of it is bought by criminals on the run. It saves them from having to shave their beard as a disguise. At least before Covid, which still is lingering on a bit.
I once met a woman in a restaurant, and upon seeing me for the first time, she said "Your hair is gray." I told her to look closer, it's only about 1/3 gray. She looked again and didn't comment, until the server, a girl with a beautiful smile and nice white teeth came to take the order. "Did you see how white her teeth were?", she commented after the girl left the table. Her teeth were not nearly as white and she hinted that white teeth were freakish. I thought of saying, " your teeth are 1/3 a shade away from borderline white", sort of mid yellow, but didn't. Her insecurities were obviously at work.Talking of colrs; there was a person well known in the audio field whose last name was White. And another one whose last name is Gray. Can you name them? Hard question on the first one.
But anyway it was really nice to see the simulated video portrayal of a bribe.in action. I think it would be far more ugly in real life. L.There are many suspects on here; but that's some conjecture I guess.
Love your in depth knowledge of the escort service. No idea who White or Gray are. Thanks for the detailed comment.
I only called a so called "Escort Service" once in my life, but your term "in depth" is a very good word. I think most of them show up for ONE reason, and it's only legal in Nevada. I know what my former acquaintance means though; the one time I did call, I got someone whose voice was many different frequencies; thanks to tbe voice modulator they were using and talking into. You can't arrest a compuer or a robot, I guess they were thinking....
The Great One, as I thought of myself back then, wouldn not have paid anyone for that. At a certain older age though, some may be reduced to that.We ARE getting older and shrinking and shriveling a little more with each year. However, some of us, like me, don't ever seem to get any wrinkles at all. Maybe a little puffing around the eyes, but that's about it.
Reminds me though to measure myself again . I mean height height.of course. Some people can't measure themselves anymore,; (the other thing);.. you know! Of those that can, some don't think they "measure" up. That is not a good yardstick to go by; I'm sorry; I mean ruler. Our first gym class in our pre teens, where everyone has to get naked, to shower in front of everyone else; can be a traumatic experience for some. For many young men,, it is the first realization of how they measure up. I remember consoling one less than lengthy kid, sitting on the bench in the locker room after the shower. I could see he was shocked and depressed, (not by mine though) and I told him "You're young yet." .."Some of these are older boys". "Like that one over there, he was in the 5th grade for about 4 years". "And look at that guy; no on second thought don't look." ..."But he was in 8th grade and they put him all the way back to 5th grade!" He felt a little better; I mean a "bit" better, after the talk
Speaking of mirrors, that's a good idea having a mirror right to the side of the door you go out. I comb my hair in the bathroom, and by the time I go through all those rooms to my door, to go out; my hair could get messed up by then. Mirrors and glass are the worst for acoustics though. To the side of my door is a glass of water, in case I get thirsty, right before I go out. It isn't a real glass made of glass of course.course.I know better than that. I think I'll put a cd near my door. I can have a look at myself in that.
Forgot to give answers to my question. The person with the last name of the color gray....is Kevin Gray, a well known vinyl lp mastering engineer. Record companies often make note if he mastered one of their lps The man whose last name was pronounced White, but spelled Whyte, was Bert Whyte who wrote an article for Audio magazine every month. Probably learned as much from his articles on audio as from anyone. Once I was in a bookstore and saw a guy in a seat against the wall reading Audio magazine, and I asked him "Are you reading Bert Whteyte? He looked at me astonished, like how did you know? A lot of people bought the magazine mostly for his monthly article.
I like ifi.. I have a lot of different dongles, all coloured in some way, because that's what I want. No need to use eq and add distortion. Mint jelly with rosemary lamb? Disgusting. You want a bit of demi glace on top, that's it. So you are saying the fiio is disgusting. Ok.
Fiio usually has good hardware and very piss poor software
I am not sure that your Fiio was an Israeli front company export for Middle East Region..Just sayin'.....
You never know.
So you don't like it then :)
😆
Disposable tech ! How many dacs come out per week? This stuff is non survivable and won’t be around by your next birthday. This stuff is the house fly of audio it’s obsolete the day they make it! It’s not McIntosh ! it’s not something you have for years or months.
And all this streaming bullshit is the biggest con! How long will that be around ? But CDs and vinyl will be on shelves as long you keep them! As soon as they stop supporting it …it stops! Just like operating systems? Stop buying into the moment….it won’t last.