Fiio DT11's Review
General The FiiO DT11 is something I have been waiting for someone to make properly. It is a portable Android digital transport, which means there is no DAC chip and no headphone amplifier inside. Its sole job is to play your music and push a clean digital signal out to whatever DAC or DAC/amp you connect it to. So do take note, the sound you hear is mainly dictated by the DAC/amp downstream, not by the DT11 itself. Regular price is US$339.99, the same price as the FiiO M21. FiiO's argument is simple. Since the DT11 drops the analog stage, the budget goes into the digital side instead. It runs Android 13 on a Snapdragon 680 with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, plus a microSD slot that supports up to 2TB. The clock architecture is borrowed from the flagship M27, an FPGA paired with dual femtosecond crystal oscillators, and FiiO quotes coaxial output jitter of below 67ps RMS. On paper it is a serious spec sheet for the asking price. Packaging is straightforward. Inside the box you get th...
