FiiO M7 Music player bluetooth SILVER

Superb sound quality playing high res files. Battery life good but not as long as claimed. Slow to wake up and leads you through too many screens before you get to your music but that is a minor annoyance. Although I don't use it the player offers Aptx HD bluetooth which is a nice thing to have.Edit. I checked the manual and noticed I had kept the screen on during play. Because of this the battery life was only around half of the 20 hours promised. I have now switched this to sleep after 15 seconds and the player now lasts almost the 20 hours which is excellent battery life.

Bought this as a first foray into the audiophile world. Once you've got the correct drivers installed, firmware updated, additional apps loaded (I wanted spotify), it works great and drives a pair of decent studio headphones perfectly. In DAC mode with a PC, once you find the correct sound quality settings to minimise lag between screen and audio, it's a great addition for gaming or watching movies on your PC. Since the drivers are ASIO it pairs nicely with DAW software for studio quality beatmaking. Battery life is fine etc. This model does actually have wifi which can be enabled via 3rd party apps however since it was never designed to be used, it's so shielded and interfered with by the other electronics, it probably needs some kind of modding to make it as effective as the bluetooth, which does work well and can be used to provide internet to the device.The screen is actually really nice and a bit wasted with the stock selection of apps. Adding 3rd party players with visualisation capabilities really makes the design pop and look cool as well as sound cool. 3rd party apps can be a little unresponsive in terms of Ui response, which is a bit of a pain. Also haven't found a way to bypass the EU volume lock although I suspect there are 3rd party EQs you could use to get a bit more volume out of it. On max it's fine for me I just want it a little louder sometimes.All in all for the money it's a great buy if you know what you're getting into and can mitigate it's flaws with nerdy skill and knowhow. If you can't then maybe look at the higher models which are supposed to have wifi etc, at the expense of battery life.

I have a few FIIO DAPs, X3 ii and X3iii and this one ticks all the boxes. Good solid interface, looks twice its price, can go quite loud and above all has great sound. I've tried it with some hi Res flac: Deftones koi no yokan and it can handle a lot of the detail and texture, Norah Jones come away with me and the depth and timbre are excellent. Even with power hungry DSD tracks like thriller and take Five by David Brubeck and the ambiance is startling. The only downside is the player takes a while to load and the music app also takes its time but when it gets going it keeps going with a battery life that puts most phones to shame. Hope FIIO release a dock with usb c in the future to take full advantage of the system.

Love the sound had to send back so many problems

The sound quality is great - let's get that out the way.That's where the positives end.I bought mine largely to listen to long concerts, DJ mixes and audiobooks.So, for that, you need it to remember where in the mp3 you got to when you stop playing, so you can pick it up next time - it does this, but only by not having a proper standby mode. If you turn the thing off, it forgets your position, and then you have to try and scroll through the file which is buggy as hell and causes the player to crash.If you leave it on, due to not having a decent standby mode, it eats the battery up and you come to use it again and youve got no power.Everything seems to cause the software to crash.You try and get support on it and you get no replies to your emails whatsoever.All in all - an awful experience.

Bought to replace an old Sony Walkman mp player.This FiiO M7 player is better by miles.1 it has more internal memory, 32Gb int, add a MicroSD card too. I used a 64Gb which holds 80 or more full fat albums, not mp3 rubbish.2 will play all my HiRes music tracks with ease, WAV, DSD etc3 is easily a better quality product.4 has an inbuilt FM tuner. Good depending on your reception and headphone cable.5 goes plenty loud enough with my home SONY headphones, and my EMusic earbuds. I love loud music. Perfect.6 plays gapless, unlike a lot of players that produce a miniscule silence between tracks.7 charges internal battery via the supplied USB C cable. And lasts a long time between charges.It's best to "drag and drop" music in Windows 7 using Explorer, the easiest way to assemble songs onto a card.I'm "jubblyfied" over the quality of this player. A quality product with equally high quality high resolution sound. Buy one.

Quality of materials and screen is excellent. The screen itself is quite responsive (not like hi end smartphones, but still very good) and the lag of the UI is acceptable. I would like a clearer and better designed UI (coming from iOS devices), but this is something that you can get used to with time. Its possibilities are more that enough for the price range, including hi res bluetooth profiles for streaming audio. I paired it wirelessly with the Fiio BTR1K and the results in audio quality are better than expected. Soundwise, if you use refference hi res files (.flac) the player really delivers. For this price range you cannot ask for something better. Be aware! the quality of audio output is depending on the quality of the hi res files you play. I played some .flac files that had the same quality as mp3s on a normal player, and then I played refference .flac files that just blew me away and showed the potential of the player. I was very suprise to see the speed in which the player reads large files from the sd card and its full compitability with Mac os. All in all a highly recommended player.