Having lately impressed us with its mid-range FiiO M11S moveable digital audio participant, Chinese language audio agency FiiO is again with a decidedly high-end providing for its subsequent on-the-go gadget.
The brand new M15S moveable participant comes full of two desktop-grade ES9038PRO digital-to-analog converters, with particular person DAC chips devoted to the left and proper stereo channels.
Every chip makes use of 4 D/A converters for what FiiO claims to be extraordinarily high-quality decoding, with the gadget in a position to assist playback of audio information as much as 384kHz/DSD256.
The brand new M15S additionally helps MQA, permitting listeners to straight stream Tidal Masters in addition to MQA information saved domestically, whereas additional hi-res audio choices come within the type of aptX HD Bluetooth, alongside LDAC and LHDC wi-fi codecs.
There’s onboard 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi permitting for assist of Apple AirPlay and DLNA streaming, in addition to compatibility with the more and more in style multi-room music software program platform Roon.
Weighing 345g, the gadget runs on Android 10, which permits for lossless entry to Tidal, Qobuz and Apple Music, and it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor – the identical CPU which options on FiiO’s flagship M17 hi-res audio participant.
Together with a daily 3.5mm headphone jack and each 2.5mm and 4.4mm balanced headphone outputs, there is a 5.5-inch multi-touch HD show with 64GB of onboard storage that may be expanded as much as 2TB of additional storage through the microSD card slot.
The FiiO M15S is offered now to order for $999 / £979 / AU$1,599 from FiiO’s web site, and set to ship later this month.
We will not wait to place it by its paces and see the way it matches as much as greatest MP3 gamers presently on the market. Watch this house…