I came here to post about my anxiety after just ordering the Fiio K11 and Sundaras this morning as the price point scared me. But, after seeing your post, I think I made the right call.
Fiio K11 Desktop DAC Amplifier
FiiO K11 Desktop 1400W Power Balanced Headphone DAC & Amplifier 384kHz/24Bit DSD256 for Home Audio/PC 6.35mm/4.4mm/RCA/Coaxial/Optical (Black)
By Fiio
What one Redditor said
“For my ears, the sound is clearly more enjoyable in many ways.”
What Reddit thinks
Pros
8- +Exciting to try
- +Expected to improve music enjoyment
- +Great setup (with hd 490 pro)
- +As plug and play as it gets (with hd 490 pro)
- +More than enough volume on low gain (with hd 490 pro)
- +more natural sound
- +sound is clearly more enjoyable
- +very good on its own
Cons
6- −Price point scared me
- −treble is more rolled off
- −felt flat
- −treble was rolled off
- −sounded boring
- −not up to full potential of headphones
Where Reddit talks about it
49 comments · 9 subreddits
Reddit reviews
I have A-Bd the K3 and K11 R2R a lot and there is definitely a difference with the treble, its more rolled off with the R2R dac. Also the sound like I mentioned in the original post is more natural, i
For my ears, the sound is clearly more enjoyable in many ways.
I'm still new to this hobby. I want to get the Apos gremlin to use with the fiio k11. How would I go about plugging them into each other?
The K11 R2R is very good on its own though.
K11 R2R is how I started and still anchoring my audio chain.
I was using the K11 R2R with my Fostex TH-900 and it kind of just felt so flat and the treble was rolled off too a point of it sounding boring and not up to the full potential of what the headphones c
I like the built in PEQ. same price as the FiiO k11 i think i Will only have it by the pc. How long have you had the Quadelix 5k?
I have a FiiO K11 and use my DT770 Pro and HD650 with it - I have to say it’s a great little piece of kit and performs very well. I think when you get to about the $200 mark for a DAC/AMP you start to
I’ve just the M27 reference DAP. FiiO make some pretty damn good electronics. How’s that K11 treating u? Which IEM’s u got paired up with it?
The K11 will run the XS fine with your stock cable.
you should use the 6.35 port with the edition xs, not the balanced 4.4 port, because you actually get more juice out of the non balanced port with the k11 (only with your headphones!!!).
I tried using a stock cable with a lightning to usb-c connection and the files k11 does not recognize my itouch.
Even if the raw wattage on paper looks lower for low-ohm loads, the Balanced port offers three "surgical" advantages: Better Stereo Separation, Dynamic Headroom, Controlled Damping.
Like I said I went kinda blind with the FiiO K11 R2R cause of the many good opinions it has.
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