Throne must be equipped with the world master, FiiO K5 desktop ear decoder experience

there is a saying called a good horse with a good saddle, especially in the music player market. when iPod and iPhone are popular all over the country, the update speed of various dock products that can be used with iPod and iPhone is comparable to cell division. Although most of these products are pure audio and do not have the ability to improve sound quality, these products also seem to point out a clear way for many manufacturers to build their own products.

, however, Hi-Fi players are ultimately too small compared to iPhones that can sell tens of millions of units each year. In addition, various Hi-Fi manufacturers have different designs. For manufacturers who simply make peripherals, it will be more than good to develop a peripheral for a product. Therefore, for Hi-Fi player users, the original peripheral products have become their only choice.

FiiO K5 is a product in this environment. FiiO's X series players have quite good popularity and a considerable number of user groups. The flagship product X7 released in 2015 has also been recognized by many people, so it is understandable that FiiO has introduced an original base for its players.

Of course, K5 is not a simple audio output charging base. FiiO's official definition of K5 is "desktop ear decoder". However, although the definition contains the word "decoding", the user cannot decode the digital signal when using K5 alone. After all, the inside of K5 is only an earphone module. If decoding function is required, FiiO player needs to be inserted. Therefore, K5 is not so much a "desktop earpiece decoding" as a real desktop earpiece with decoding function as a K5 inserted with X7. For X7, the flagship player of the FiiO family, K5 also exists as a gilded throne specially made by itself.

whether it is a person or a thing, the first impression is always extremely important, while the first impression of FiiO K5 is quite strange. For domestic Hi-Fi audio equipment, our established impression in our hearts is that it is always difficult to escape from the unconstrained but silly, big and dark appearance design except for sound quality, but K5 is completely unlike a domestic Hi-Fi equipment or even a Hi-Fi equipment.

K5 gives the above strange impression because of its fuselage weight. Although K5 is about the size of two or three Xinhua dictionaries, its body weight is only as much as two or three reader magazines-even it feels less heavy than the FiiO X7 inserted on it. However, this feeling was proved to be wrong after consulting FiiO's official website data. The weight of X7 is 220g, while the weight of K5 is 450g. However, the weight of K5 is as light as a swallow for this volume of equipment.

, in addition to the rather weird combination of body weight and volume, FiiO K5 is still quite good in appearance and workmanship. Although looking at it from a perspective of excellence, the toggle damping of the K5 input selector switch and gain adjustment switch is too large, while the damping of the volume knob is too small. However, at least the integrally formed metal shell of K5 and the silver-gray shell quite compatible with X7 still make people have a good impression on the appearance of K5, and there is nothing wrong with putting it on the desktop. Of course, attention should be paid to hiding the power adapter that is very incompatible with the texture of K5.

performance, K5 is quite good. According to the official information given by FiiO, K5 uses TPA6120A2 and various FiiO exclusive technologies, so that K5 has an output power of up to 1.5W under 32 Ω load and can drive many earphones.

As mentioned earlier, the meaning of K5 for X7 is also natural to pull X7 in the sound quality part so that the two horses are equipped with saddles, and the earphones and other things are naturally not slow, and they walk directly with big ears. After all, X7 can already push many earplugs under the original low-power earplug module, and the output power of K5 can almost push many earplugs directly.

is the same as its own X7 setting idea, FiiO's tuning idea on K5 is still very conservative, although this is largely because the decoding work is completed by X7. When X7 sits on the K5 dragon chair, the overall feeling is like an X7 with a lot of stronger thrust. Under the eternal thought of vigorously performing miracles, X7 K5 will naturally be able to provide a larger sound field and more full three-frequency extension capability than X7. In short, depending on the potential of headphones, the greater the potential of headphones, the greater the range of improvement.

X7 K5 combination is still very rigorous. When these two things are put together, the sound out can hardly pick out any obvious shortcomings. The balance of the three frequencies makes people feel that FiiO is a bit too rigorous and conservative. Even if it meets Q701, which is relatively difficult to serve, X7 K5 can strongly push Q701 to normal with extremely rigorous three views, plus the tough performance of the serious ES9018S in X7 (ES9018 on many smart phones is ES9018K2M now, and the difference from ES9018S is almost like the difference between desktop core and low voltage core), this combination can provide a very considerable amount of sound information. The Q701 introduced even has a feeling of lingering sound around the beam. Every lyrics of the singer and every musical instrument played have a very clear feeling of integrity and clarity. Coupled with the open design of Q701, the whole sound has a sense of openness that can't touch the boundary even if you stretch out your hands. In addition, it has a very clear sense of hierarchy, which reflects a very high quality performance.

, however, it is precisely because FiiO's setting of the combination of X7 and K5 is a bit too strict. When these two things are put together, they feel like an unsmiling but experienced elder with rich life experience. Generally speaking, each voice is explained to everyone who talks with it in the most original and clearest way. If you put on the 250 Ω version of Baia Power DT770pro the same unsmiling headphones, this serious voice that makes people unable to talk and laugh happily will be difficult to win everyone's love, and the amount of information will be too large to accept. Therefore, it will be relatively good to match the less "Hi-Fi" headphones like Q701.

, in the same way as before, the X7 K5 combination can also provide good listening feeling while driving Senhai HD600 with warm sound attribute. For those users who like Live music more and often enjoy live performance recording, it can provide better vertical sound field extension after matching with HD600, and the sound is also a little warmer than Q701, it feels even better.

is precisely because of the positioning of K5 's exclusive accessories, most of K5' s consumers will be users who already own FiiO Hi-Fi players, but for these users, they may not choose to buy a base for their own players for use-after all, it is not the emperor who can't sit on the throne casually. So to a large extent, most people who will buy K5 will have an X7, so absolutely speaking, the question that needs to be clarified is how necessary K5 is for X7.

, but in fact, the problem is quite simple-because after comparison, the sound that X7 can output when sitting on K5 is no different from the sound attribute of X7 itself, and some are only the inevitable quality improvement reflected in the sound thrust enhancement on the earphone, the style has not changed, and the quality improvement also depends on the earphone used by the user. Therefore, perhaps what K5 can do for X7 sound should theoretically be able to do and do better from the LO mouth of X7. What K5 can give X7 is a more elegant upward posture and incidentally charging welfare. After all, for X7, the emperor of the FiiO family, it is always an emperor standing and lying. It doesn't seem to matter whether he sits on K5, a gilded throne, but X7 looks more suitable after sitting on this gilded throne.

buy it then? At present, the scheduled selling price of K5 is about 600~700 yuan. In terms of the performance gap between K5 and X7's original low-gain ear module, K5 is absolutely excellent in cost performance, and it is not necessary to catch up with X7's stretched endurance. The appearance of X7 inserted on K5 is also gracefully suitable, together, it can also make users feel more confident and bold to push Q701, which is difficult to serve, so K5 can be bought in buy buy as long as wallet allows.

For users, if the price of FiiO's flagship X7 is too high, then K5 can indeed be used with FiiO's new X5 and X3. However, I personally think that a throne like K5 is the safest when the flagship X7 sits on it.

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