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Received the Q1ii today and OMG its a beauty of a device, but I wouldn’t expect anything less than that from FiiO. Its sounds fantastic and is a direct upgrade to my now year old FiiO K1. FiiO Q1 2nd Gen (Q1ii) vs FiiO K1: I must say for the low price of the FiiO K1 (£35.99) that tiny device is seriously good value. However, from the last 2 days of listening the Q1ii sounds more forward with greater resolution and sound stage while still having that house FiiO sound. Its slightly darker and less thick than the K1, as well as way more airy and refined. Another thing the Q1ii does remarkably to my ears is revealing layers in music, especially in Trance tracks. They're full of high-hats, cymbals, FX pads, sweeps and it sounds like the Q1ii handles each one separately. I can only assume this will get even better once the DAC is run in for a few days. Hopefully there will be a possibility to take advantage of MQA in the future on this device, since Sony, Warner and Universal have all adopted MQA so far and lots of master recordings are being made available for streaming in FLAC format. I don't see why the Q1ii couldn't support this in the future, However, the DSD native support is a great feature and is unheard of at this price range, it works with on-the-fly conversion in Foobar2000 (you need to download and set up the plugins). One problem for me if I'm playing DSD audio I cannot hear anything else going on in my laptop. Whatever, I'll just close my eyes and enjoy the music! Currently I have only used it with my PC360 G4ME headset (Sennheiser HD598), but in the future I am gonna try it with a variety of IEMS including ROCK Zircon, Yamaha-EPH100 and OnePlus Icons which are of course lower impedance. For the PC360 which are 60ohms I have the gain set to high and listen on 40-60% total volume, however I feel that the amp section is definitely lacking a bit. However I don't feel like I'll have any issues with this since I don't own any high impedance headphones. Also, as always from FiiO the packaging and accessories are fantastic. However, I would easily have paid an extra pound to throw in a Micro-USB to Micro-USB cable for use with Android phones that doesn't drain the phone's battery). FiiO never said anywhere that Android is supported so this can be overlooked as a mistake in my opinion, in any case this DAC sounds amazing for the money!Read full review
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Received the Q1ii today and OMG its a beauty of a device, but I wouldn’t expect anything less than that from FiiO. Its sounds fantastic and is a direct upgrade to my now year old FiiO K1. FiiO Q1 2nd Gen (Q1ii) vs FiiO K1: I must say for the low price for the FiiO K1 that tiny device is seriously good value. However, from the last 2 days of listening the Q1ii sounds more forward with greater resolution and sound stage while still having that house FiiO sound. Its slightly darker and less thick than the K1, as well as way more airy and refined. Another thing the Q1ii does remarkably to my ears is revealing layers in music, especially in Trance tracks. They're full of high-hats, cymbals, FX pads, sweeps and it sounds like the Q1ii handles each one separately. I can only assume this will get even better once the DAC is run in for a few days. Hopefully there will be a possibility to take advantage of MQA in the future on this device, since Sony, Warner and Universal have all adopted MQA so far and lots of master recordings are being made available for streaming in FLAC format. I don't see why the Q1ii couldn't support this in the future, However, the DSD native support is a great feature and is unheard of at this price range, it works with on-the-fly conversion in Foobar2000 (you need to download and set up the plugins). One problem for me if I'm playing DSD audio I cannot hear anything else going on in my laptop. Whatever, I'll just close my eyes and enjoy the music! Currently I have only used it with my PC360 G4ME headset (Sennheiser HD598), but in the future I am gonna try it with a variety of IEMS including ROCK Zircon, Yamaha-EPH100 and OnePlus Icons which are of course lower impedance. For the PC360 which are 60ohms I have the gain set to high and listen on 40-60% total volume, however I feel that the amp section is definitely lacking a bit. However I don't feel like I'll have any issues with this since I don't own any high impedance headphones. Also, as always from FiiO the packaging and accessories are fantastic. However, I would easily have paid an extra pound to throw in a Micro-USB to Micro-USB cable for use with Android phones that doesn't drain the phone's battery). FiiO never said anywhere that Android is supported so this can be overlooked as a mistake in my opinion, in any case this DAC sounds amazing for the money!Read full review
Verified purchase: No
Bought this as a portable, cheap alternative to my Dragonfly Red and Chord Mojo. I use it with budget IEMs (KZ Z10 Pro, Tin T2) with Audio Player Pro streaming Tidal. For the total cost of the set up being under £200, I think the sound is very good indeed. The Fiio will also play DSD natively which is an added bonus.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This won’t make a difference unless you use good headphones first. With a good set of headphones or IEMs, this DAC amp will increase the soundstage and clarity of the music. Great purchase and works perfectly with Apple devices
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Amazing sound with pretty good clarity, wide soundstage, balanced neutral sound and the amp drives my m40x easily
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New