Fiio K11 R2R DAC Review (iiWi Reviews)

[Nikhil]

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[balavignesh002]

Excellent DAC for the price. It has got 12v power supply, so can be used in car also.

I am currently using Cayin RU6 and Astell&kern HC 2 in car. These DAC through excellent details with analog tone.

 

[spirovious]

Demo

 

[heliumflight]

Excellent DAC for the price. It has got 12v power supply, so can be used in car also.

I am currently using Cayin RU6 and Astell&kern HC 2 in car. These DAC through excellent details with analog tone.

Can we use Cayin RU6 and Astell&kern HC 2 at home connected to amp?

 

[mbhangui]

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He says purple color of the Fiio logo sounds the best. Audiophiles will now go crazy.

 

[sachinchavan 15865]

Isn’t Fiio one of the smartest players around? They seem to hit the price-value sweet spot pretty regularly.

 

[balavignesh002]

Can we use Cayin RU6 and Astell&kern HC 2 at home connected to amp?

I tried that, it couldn't beat denon 2500ne built in DAC on Linton in a 15 x 15 room and lacking resolution. But I tried them on a 9 x 9 room with Mica RB42 on desktop in a 5 feet distance from speaker. They are awesome...

 

[Nikhil]

He says purple color of the Fiio logo sounds the best. Audiophiles will now go crazy.

Can you share the timestamp at which you heard this? Just curious.


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[balavignesh002]

Can you share the timestamp at which you heard this? Just curious.


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Please check out 2.20 to 2.40. he says that, "he believes purple sound the best as it's tested on the same colour".

 

[Analogous]

Please check out 2.20 to 2.40. he says that, "he believes purple sound the best as it's tested on the same colour".

He must have used tracks by Deep Purple while reviewing …. Stormbringer?

 

[Amarendra]

Can you share the timestamp at which you heard this? Just curious.


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It’s a great dac particularly the price you pay for it. Much longer listening sessions and no harshness. Have been using it for the past one month

 

[dashy]

 

[Udayan sen]

any one use this fiio DAC in kolkata

 

[morerajendra5678]

any one use this fiio DAC in kolkata

I am not from Kolkata but I can give you a good account of this R2R Dac. I have good exposure to bengali music which I picked up during my engineering days in kharagpur IIT.
Fiio R2R will give you sound signature of a good R2R Dac.
If you use this to listen to non-complex music like Ghazals, Rabindra Sangeet starting from Hemanta Mukherjee to current stars like Srikanta Acharya, Songs of kishore kumar, Lata ji, Rafi ji, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet and modern songs of Hemanta, Sandhya Mukherjee etc you will get 95% of what Laiv Harmony, Terminator 2 or Holo May dac can give you. You will just miss out on the sweetness of Laiv Harmony and Holo May and bit of resolution of Laiv Harmony, Terminator 2 and Holo May dac
But if you use it for Bass heavy music of Arijit Singh or Rock music, you will get 85% of what a top end R2R Dac can offer you. Instrument separation and detailing will be a limitation of Fiio R2R dac will be a limitation in complex music. You won't miss out on the vocals but yes you would on the high voltage music.
Given the cost of Fiio Dac it punches with Dacs at around INR 1 Lac.
Now if you have warm speakers like Harbeth, you will not miss out on the warmth part in non-complex music with this Dac.

 

[ajuvignesh]

Fiio selling at 15k beating all other dacs selling at a lac is a tall claim.

 

[morerajendra5678]

Fiio selling at 15k beating all other dacs selling at a lac is a tall claim.

Claim is not related to beating R2R dacs, it plays at almost equal level as R2R ladder dacs at 1 Lac. Difference if any that you can hear from R2R ladder Dacs at that range is very minor. I personally have never owned Fiio R2R ladder Dac but personally have heard this dac in my friends' system who has this dac with Harbeth speakers and tube amplifiers.