FiiO M11 PRO Review – Standing Above the Rest

Without too much fanfare on 30 July of this year (2019), FiiO dropped the bomb and announced their latest and greatest M11 PRO DAP in a Facebook post. To this day, that one was the most commented post in FiiOs history and a clear message that people were genuinely excited about that one. Besides dual AK4497EQ flagship DAC chips, M11 PRO promised to be the world’s first DAP with dual THX-AAA-78 headphone amplifier modules. If you checked my latest reviews around here you probably know how much I love THX designs for their accuracy and honesty in delivering a clear and unaltered signal to every headphone. At the end of the day I am using daily a Benchmark HPA4 as my flagship desktop headphone amplifier and that says a lot about me and my tastes.

To say that I was genuinely interested in hearing for myself a M11 PRO would be a big understatement, I contacted multiple times the local distributor, the manufacturer itself and literally begged for a listening session. It seems that demand for M11 PRO was much bigger than the production time, FiiO was unable to keep up with the rising demand but it seems that everything calmed down lately and I’m glad I was given the opportunity to test this one for a longer period of time.

FiiO is not new to this game, they already developed the world’s fastest DAP, the M11 and have experience with THX headphone amp modules as they released the AM3D/C amp module for Q5, Q5S and X7 MKII that is based on THX circuitry. M11 PRO is an evolution of both M11 DAP and THX headphone amp modules and presents itself in a single, compact unit. I present to you the M11 PRO digital-audio-player.

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Author: Sandu Vitalie; From: soundnews.net

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