- FIIO announces a new flagship wire earphone, the FT9
- 106 mm planar magnetic pilots and 94 db / mW sensitivity
- To come later in 2025, for about $ 800
In recent years, Fiio has taken up a place in the heart of the Techradar audio team: an excellent, refined and audiophile class of products that generally subdue the competition. The brand has taken large places in our list of the best high -resolution audio players as well as our ranking of the best wired headphones – and now it has a new product to disturb this second list.
I am really excited by the sound of its new flagship headphones, the FIIO FT7, which are flat magnetic wired cans, which, according to the company
Our revised FIIO FT5 gave headphones for the most upscale FIIO the five complete stars and said: “They sound well, they are built to last from touch and lasting materials, and they have an audiophile specification at a price general public. “
The new FT7 helmet has a 106 mm planar pilot, with a diaphragm of 1 μm and 18 magnets on each side for a well -controlled magnetic field.
With a sensitivity of 94 dB / MW, you will want to associate them with a helmet amp, but you have probably already supposed that, given the general atmosphere here.
The grille is zebra, with the stripes characteristic of this particular material. You have the possibility of using early tampons in lamb skin or suede, depending on your sound profile and animal product preferences.
They weigh 427 g, which is described in an optimistic way as “light” in the press release that I received, although Fiio is good to obtain the distribution of weight directly on its headphones, so I expect this that they are comfortable enough to settle.
You also get a storage box from “Yauli Linen” with them. What price for all this? Well, they are not due later in 2025, with a planned price of around $ 800 (around £ 630 / $ 1,250 in)-The exact amount will only be confirmed closer to the launch, it seems .
As I said in the title, $ 800 grow definitively beyond most of the affordable definitions, but everything is relative-in the world of hi-fi headphones, a pair of flagship planar headphones can easily Costing $ 2,000, so if the headphones of Fiio are even close to being this level of quality, they are somehow a good deal.
This was the case with products such as the Audio players FIIO M11S and FIIO M23, who compete with high -end and expensive players of people like Astell & KERN for quality and specifications for much less – the M11 is so good , we use it as our standard source system to test wired headphones and headphones.
I am therefore delighted to see if FIIO can successfully set up its headphones, especially since I am a huge magnetic fan has been hanging since the launch of the Oppo PM-1 years ago, which I still have in a closet.
