The FiiO BTR7 is not your common transportable DAC/amplifier. It is tremendous fairly — in truth, it is designed to look quite a bit like the corporate’s latest transportable hi-fi participant, the M11S — but it surely additionally has lots of options that the majority different transportable DAC/amplifiers lack. It has a tiny display screen for displaying the audio’s bitrate and quantity. It helps wi-fi charging identical to most of at this time’s smartphones. And it has built-in Bluetooth, which means you do not have it instantly linked to your smartphone or laptop computer in case you do not wish to.
The FiiO BTR7 is designed to work finest when it is used as a conventional DAC/amplifier: it plugs into your smartphone or laptop computer and makes the audio in your wired headphones sound quite a bit higher. When instantly linked to your machine, the BTR7 helps audio recordsdata as much as 32-bit/384kHz (PCM) or DSD256, in addition to Grasp High quality Authenticated (MQA). So in case you pay for a lossless streaming service, the BTR7 will probably have the ability to deal with its most hi-fi tracks.
Nonetheless, in case you do not wish to be tethered your machine, you’ll be able to stream audio on to the BTR7. It helps quite a lot of Bluetooth codecs, together with aptX HD and LDAC, and might deal with high-resolution tracks as much as 24-bit/96kHz. It is not fairly as hi-fi as if utilized in a totally analog connection, but it surely’s a neat possibility if you wish to slip the BTR7 in your pocket and transfer round. There’s additionally a button that lets you rapidly swap between these totally different modes.
So far as guts, the BTR7 has two amplifiers (every THX AAA-28) and two DACs (every ESS9219 Sabre) to assist it ship a fully-balanced sound. There are two headphone inputs, 3.5mm and 4.4mm, so you should utilize quite a lot of wired headphones. And it has a built-in battery, which is claimed to last as long as 9 hours, so the BTR7 will not drain energy out of your smartphone or laptop computer when utilizing it.
If you happen to’re any person who likes to tweak the sound of your music, the BTR7 additionally works with a companion app (FiiO Management) that has a 10-band graphic equalizer.
The FiiO BTR7 is offered now for $199. When you’ve got an iPhone, for an additional $10 you should purchase a model that comes with the required USB-C to Lightning cable.
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