[Karendar]

  If you have some, try your records on more natural sounding IEM's even if they are of lower overal quality than your westons, I believe your Westons are comparable to my main IEM, sony XBA-300's which have great details but don't sound very natural and treat arschly (is that a word?) lower quality recordings. The 1More Triple Drivers are much more friendly and natural to me.

 
I currently only own the Westones and Shure SE215's... Waiting on a bunch of Trinity. I'll post findings once I do try them out.

 

[Karendar]

 My EX1000 love the X5iii. Everything I throw at it sounds great.
 
 
 
 
 
 
To the guy with the red one:
 
Everybody hates you.

 
 

 


Hate accepted. I still need to stack with Fiio A5 and post pictures.

 

[Codec1]

Is Sony WM1A better than X5 III?

 

[Krisna13]

   
First off, you really should upgrade to 1.1.4. But in the meantime, I can answer some of your questions (but I'm not affiliated with Fiio; I'm just a satisfied user):
 
1. I get a slight delay when resuming playback from pause but not 10-20 seconds. Perhaps it's related to library size (mine is quite small; just over 1200 tracks)?
 
2.On the Now Playing screen, swipe in from the left edge will display the queued tracks. Not quite what you're after but it's close. Alternately, you can switch to the browser screen (tap the icon in the top left corner). The press the folder icon to browse the collection; tap the folder icon on the far right; you'll see an animation beside the SD card/internal memory that holds the currently playing track. Tap that and start drilling into your folder hierarchy. Each time, the folder that contains the currently selected track will be highlighted by default. A few taps and you'll be in the folder of the album for your currently playing track. It takes longer for me to type out the description than it does to actually do it.
 
3. On the Now Playing screen, you can scrub forward and backward in the middle zone (where the track name is displayed -- to the right of the track count) to fast forward and rewind.
 
I'll leave 4, 5, and 6 to others. 
 
Hope this helps.

Thank you for replying @Croptop 
 
I have upgraded to 1.1.4 and there are now less issues. 
 
1. The pause in playback is significantly reduces, my library is still relatively small on the x5, around 2500 tracks.
 
2. Thank you for the recommendation. Your first was what I was looking for! Your right in saying it's not quite going to the album but its good certainly good enough! 
 
3. Again thank you, I feel silly to not have tried that. 
 
Great help! 

 

[Gerryhatrick]

 
Thank you for replying @Gerryhatrick 
 
49cents seems like a good deal! have you tried any of the purchased effects? 

Only the bass effect - which is profound! There is even a sub-woofer effect which seems to convert the entire music frequency range to a pretty solid 30hz. Bass heads rejoice! Others may regard it as pretty silly....

 

[SoundSquare]

 My EX1000 love the X5iii. Everything I throw at it sounds great.
 
 
 
 
 
 
To the guy with the red one:
 
Everybody hates you.

 
 

 


no, really, i don't hate him ! Black is beautiful :-D

 

[BadCommand]

  Besides me having issues with back orders from Amazon, are others are having the same issue as well with their orders?

I ordered the titanium version yesterday and it is scheduled for delivery friday- which is a little odd (these type of things- small electronics usually go out same day when ordered prior to 5 and show up in 2 days- prime).  All 3 colors were prime and were handled by Beach Camera or black was sold by Electronics Expo (all prime).  I wanted to make sure I ordered it prime so I could easily return it if the SQ is not for me or it's buggy,  I see the black is in stock from EE and prime- I've had EE orders in the past including a tv I believe and all were spot on.

 

[Inof]

My pre-order is delayed for yet another week...
Bugger!

 

[Dsnuts]

Was listening to my X5iii on the way home from work yesterday a long 1 hour treck. I have to say 1 hour seems like 10 minutes using the player. It is so damn enjoyable listening to the X5iii. 
 
A coworker ended up buying one, let his wife hear it. Now she wants the red one. Lol!

 

[jmills8]

Most shops in Hong Kong are out of X5III. I asked about a Red unit and three shops said one month wait.

 

[Krisna13]

  Dear Krisna13,
 
Thank you for the kind feedback to us.
 
1.  The lag can be up to 10-15 seconds. ---What's the format of your songs? The delay would be 10~15s in all of your song?
2.  Are you playing the current song from album category? If yes, you can silde right from left border of the now playing interface, and then you can view the list of the songs in the album of current song.  
3.  You can slide the big progress bar to fast forward/rewind.
4. One of the key performance of the HIFI player is the support with different bit streams and formats of songs. However, the settings of the DAC chip need to be reset and the DAC will restart when switching between different sampling rates, which lead to a small click sound at the same time. This issue can only be solved by converting to standard format and sampling rate in the computer first like itune does, which will lose the biggest advantage in using HiFi player. But we will still trying our best to improve this issue.
5. The X5III is a high resolution music player. And many chips will work at the same time when it's playing music, which will consume a lot of power and also release heat.But you don't need to worry about any safety issues with the heating, because there's temperature protecting circuit inside the player.
6. You can follow the raising message to finish the payment of Viper effect. There are also 7 Viper effects are free of charge.
 
Best regards

Hi @FiiO ,
 
I greatly appreciate the feedback, not just to me, but to all the Head-fiers that you've replied too, really excellent customer service. 
 
Since my post I've updated to 1.1.4
 
 
1. Most of my songs are AIFF, WAVE some Flac and DSD. The issue is less prominent since upgrading, occasionally a 1-3 second delay. 
 
2/3 A member pointed that out to me, but thank you for the information.
 
4. I experience the click with my other dacs so its not really a huge issue, was just curious if you had a solution and if it was normal to the X5 player.
 
5. Since the firmware update there seems to be less heating (this may be subjective).
 
An additional question and perhaps something to add to the next update - Is there a way to add songs to a cue/play next? I haven't been able to find this function. Maybe you can add that option in when swiping right on track or long press. It would be great to be able to add songs to a cue without having to make a playlist. 
 
Many thanks,
 
Krisna

 

[MinnieOne]

   
Is there a preferred app for syncing music from iTunes to the Fiio?  Anything that makes the Fiio sync like an iPod?  

​On the PC I found MediaMonkey to be the best so far. Learning curve a bit steep but once you master it things synch fast and simple. Can be fully automated to synch on connection and then eject all volumes.

 

[uncle b]

Trying to figure out: when in an artist's folder, is there anyway to configure the individual albums to display by year of release, instead of alphabetically?

 

[singleended58]

You thought about pairing up Fiio X5-III with Angie I or II (?)
Thank you.

 

[Basstion]

@James / @Fiio, Could you tell me how many official Fiio dealers are in Mexico? Do you cover 1 year warranty for these distributors? Thanks.