Fiio M23 DAP - simply rocks!

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00:00 About M23
04:59 Sound
08:44 Operating Modes
11:43 vs Hiby R6 III
15:04 vs Hiby R4
16:30 vs Chord Mojo 2 and Smartphone
18:41 Conclusion

Room test setup
Streamers:
Allo DigiOne Signature (with GentooPlayer and Diretta protocol)
DACs:
Preamps:
Amps:
Speakers:

Head-Fi test setup:

#hifi #audiophile #dap #stereo

[nusu]

love listening to your reviews when waking up and drinking coffee. Better than any audio book, just a gentle start into the day. Thank you for keeping it running!

[cheongit]

Glad my LG V50 with Quad DAC and tuned by Meridian can handle those DSDs and MQAs, a few years on.

[vitenp]

A suggestion.. when using the term slightly maybe if you can somehow quantify it like 5% 10% 50% better or worse it ll be easy to make decisions on one device or other in the comparison

[heinzmuller]

Thanks for the review - what would be interesting for me as a user of a FiiO M11 Plus, with which I am actually very happy, is a comparison between of the sound these two devices and generally to the other brothers from the FiiO stable.
After the release of the M23, the price of the M11 was reduced a little further and might be another alternative for some people.

[orthodox--ever]

Hello Srba,

One idea for next video is "HiFi for noobs"

For example, I am newcomer in HiFi and it is pretty complicated to make own system.
I know there are some other videos about this but I think they are not so descriptive and you will do it better

There are some example questions to answer:
- What parts of system I need (expect speakers as it is obvious)
- What is the differences between amp, pre-amp, power-amp, integrated amp and do I really need them?
- Some explanations about combinations like DAC+AMP for example...what else I need?
- What are streamers? Do they always include DAC?
- What do you think about all-in-ones as Cambridge Audio EVO 75/150 and should somebody buy such a device + speakers and not think about other parts
-

[TheVeganVicar]

Does my M17 have the "hi-fi mode" to which you referred?

[nevermification]

Great reviews! Did you try the Mano Ultra MKIII Farad Music Streamer? I wonder how it compares to the Volumio Rivo and Eversolo streamers.

[tk-qgmm]

For me Fiio sounds better than Hiby but 299g M23 is not quite pocketable so I'd wait for the Fiio M21- I guess from their naming scheme.

[MegaEpstein]

Good review. What do you think about the new Fiio R2R DAC?

[Roni-uc]

Hi,
I want to use a DAP (or a smartphone in airplane mode to avoid electrical interferences) as a source and connect it to a Desktop DAC + AMP and play local WAV files (For linearing my Headphones by the PEQ).
Sound wise, a quality Streamer will give me a better results?
Thank you 🙏

[rhphotocdn]

Could you use this as a Streamer while at home, by connecting it to your Receiver/Integrated AMP by using a Headphone to Dual RCA Cable?

[Cestmoi]

The moment you connect a Chord Poly to the mojo2, it goes quite up in quality. (not cheap, but very very good) but the M23 is quite reasonable priced for a decent DAP

[joegarcia]

How does it compare to the m11s in sound quality is it a huge sound quality difference

[greatmusicneverdies]

Nice review...you have a way with words...thank you.

[topandrun]

Was hoping you review this dap thanks.

[gadgetgenerationspulkit]

I have been eyeing this DAP for streaming purposes. Good take bro.

[topandrun]

How would you compare the fiio m23 to the XD05 Pro in terms of sound quality and power. Thanks

[-someone-.]

Hi from Australia!
I’ve just started backing up my CD collection. Over 3500 songs. I’m using (WMP) windows media player to rip them to my pc first. I choose the WAV lossless format.

Then I use audacity to convert to 432hz and export.
I’m exporting 2 copies. One is aiff, and the other opus. Opus songs will be used on my iPhone, while the aiff are going to be locally played via volumio.
The aiff files average about 1gb (32bit float & 382000hz) Opus are approx 40-50mb (196000hz)

My questions please...,

1. is there a better to rip way rather than using WMP?
2. How can I add all the metadata, coz it doesn’t copy over when I rip via WAV lossless, only if I rip to mp3 format does the metadata copy over (title, album etc)
3. And is the aiff and opus the best choices?

I really appreciate any advice. ❤

[deadline]

Nicely Done.
Came for the review
left with Desert Dwellers :)
Thanks