Very good quality / price ratio for an audiophile player but the interface remains basic

Very good quality / price ratio for an audiophile player but the interface remains basic

Players Fiio audiophiles X1 Champagne (Electronics)

Customer Review

Having disposed of several players said audiophiles Cowon trademarks or Sony (audiophile series NWZ-E) as well as ScanDisk, I made a fairly detailed comparison. (Tapping with Momentum headphones or Senheinser intras SoundMagic E10).
Last out of this Chinese brand already has the X3 (recently remade as X1) and X5 but much more expensive, I'm tempted at this price.

Construction:
++ Strong and well finished, although only the frame is metal, the rest is plastic
Look ++ making serious and fun at a time (champagne color looks great)
- Too big and too thick, strange in our time, this almost give it a vintage look
+ USB Cable delivered but quite standard (micro USB), not supplied power adapter
+/- Supplied with a black rubber pouch, effective to protect the (pity he is not transparent because we do even see the original color of the case). However in practice, we see that it is useful because the color coating is fragile (Station scratch) and very slippery so essential case outside
+ Comes with screen protectors (one has already arisen but I removed believer to a simple factory plastic protection)
- Comes with stickers to customize the housing (look American flag, wood, black), frankly not the best taste (for teens)
+ No-ear headphones supplied or fortunately, audiophiles prefer them.
- - No memory, you must buy a micro SD (128 Giga max), the budget will go up a little but it also includes (I put a Scandisk of 64G and it goes very well)
- - More than 3 hours to charge (A convenient front panel LED changes from orange to green)
++ Very good battery life (over 10 hours)

The sound
+ + The light and airy and balanced but somewhat neutral.
I did not get any better sound than on my Cowon see less than my Sony, one has the feeling that the sound is pretty gross
Much about FLAC, you feel its full potential, as some even to 320 kbps mp3, one feels a lack of depth
Normal say to me, because some mp3 are poorly encoded, however it is a shame not to make the effort to rework some aspects.
++ Equalizer 7-band, is necessary in the light of my above comment and refines all the same tastes
- - Apart from the equalizer: Nothing in terms of sound optimization (total poverty next to my Sony that offers options galore)
The experience of leading brands like Sony or Cowon makes a difference here with a little raw side of this product

Interface
+/- TFT screen big enough and clear color, the definition is not great and it shines in the sun and take fingerprints, but overall simply on what kind of product (non-touch sadly)
++ The tagging pieces is virtually no missed and the covers are well displayed (as in the background color)
If there is a failure, impossible to re-associate a pocket, it will correct the tag with a load of app like MediaGo
- Display song under the jacket but the artist name / album goes, we must re-press the top left long, impossible to customize
+++ Updated basic ultra fast data manually or automatically
++ The toothed wheel is a great idea but navigate takes a little time, it's slippery and a lot of failures, and we would have liked a click on the postions rather than using a button next (underexploited). Here too there is a lack of manufacturer's control
- After setting the screen saver, you must go through the key is to turn the while a press of the middle button would have been faster
- The navigation general way is not terrible, the interface is poor and sometimes makes illogically (Chinese?). It is difficult to switch from one function to another, the buttons have a simplistic use and are not well placed. Regardless of possible configurations, no retouches tag, no renaming, no customization, background colors very few slobbering, in short it's basic.
It's a little better than Cowon whose interfaces are horrible, but we are still light years away from my nearest Sony android navigation (menus touchscreen with mini jackets, etc ...)
This property is a general problem among manufacturers of audiophile players, when they will hire real app developers?
In the age of hyper sharp interfaces on smartphones, it is not acceptable to be imposed worthy menus 80s.

General:
As of comment, the product is delivered in firmware 1.4, which is not even available on the manufacturer's website (there is the 1.3) site that is so destitute that their interfaces, so do not know if 5800 pieces of the bug is corrected indexed maximum 1.4 (really stupid bug when we know the number of possible songs with 128 giga ...)

CONCLUSION:
The main advantage of this product is its price, indeed have an audiophile player around 100, it was hitherto impossible, so for those whose budget is limited, it is clearly a good buy (note the extra cost of SD and possibly headset)
From there, it will not be expect miracles, the sound is there, this is the main, but do not expect sophisticated
Bulky, difficult navigation, in short a little out, the Chinese still have a late train into ergonomics, this is really the weak point of all these produits.qui could yet easily be improved.

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