[Slow Review] Feiao Q5S: A New Form of Portable Decoding Earrings with Both "New" and "All"

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portable earphone amplifier, as an evergreen tree in the field of personal fever, has been squeezed to a relatively marginal position in recent years with the further strengthening of brick-level player functions and sound quality, and the living space is worrying. In retrospect, the portable earpiece was produced by the weak thrust and sound quality of the player several years ago, which reinforced the latter. For a single player, the role of portable earphones (or decoding earphones) is nothing more than enhancing thrust, enhancing sound quality, and complementing functions (or interfaces), enhancing playability, and also improving some hard-to-push earphones. The potential of earplugs on the portable system.

to this day, most portable players have diversified outputs and powerful thrust. In addition, they are generally equipped with Bluetooth above APTX level, which greatly reduces the value of portable earphones. With the popularity of mobile phones and Bluetooth headsets as walkman song equipment, even the living space of the player has been seriously threatened, not to mention the portable earphones as accessories of the player.

in such a market environment, Feiao launched the Q5S portable decoding earpiece of "new wine in old bottles", upgraded the previous Q5 unhurriedly, and still sold the 2298's "increase without price increase" behavior. To be honest, the author is slightly puzzled. If such products cannot have unique advantages over mobile phones or simple players in their areas of expertise, it is only a matter of time before they are eliminated.

Appearance and Packaging

Q5S is an upgraded version of Q5. The appearance of Q5S is similar. However, some function key settings and process details have been slightly adjusted to make it easier to use. As a retro control, the author likes to see the physical power key integrated into the volume knob, the newly added input mode switching key, and some fine-tuning of the key position.

, because there are so many accessories attached. In addition to the screwdriver used to replace the module, there are also various binding belts, anti-skid gaskets and connecting wires, which are quite a bit of a cloud and fog for me, a ten-thousand-year-old direct push party. For the sake of functional compatibility, Q5S still uses a micro-USB interface. Fortunately, it is not a player and there is no problem of slow copying of music.

workmanship, it is the same as that of a large domestic manufacturer. The litchi texture layer on the back of Q5S can effectively prevent the metal shell from scratching the front end/turntable, and the additional anti-skid gasket can also play a good protective role. In the author's opinion, Q5S's design style is even better than that of Feiao's players. It has simple and capable lines, no extra elements, and is fresh and clear.

Function and Control

Q5S is very simple. Since there is no screen assistance, all the control is completed by physical pressing/dialing. Most of the functions have independent physical keys. At the same time, they are highly integrated and the learning cost is relatively low. Basically, the position of commonly used keys can be remembered after several times of operation. Blind operation is only a matter of time.

and functionally, Q5S, as a player with "turntable removed", does everything from decoding to earpiece, and has SBC, AAC, aptX, aptX LL, aptX HD, LDAC and Huawei's HWA Bluetooth format at the same time. This product directly robbed all the work of Bluetooth earpiece, which can be said to cover all high-quality Bluetooth formats. Although Feiao itself is in the forefront of the industry in the support of Bluetooth format, Q5S, as an external decoding ear holder, can still be so complete, which is quite a bit of "not giving others a way to live. In fact, as said at the beginning, as a portable earpiece, it must be very well done to occupy a place in the market, so the "integration" of Q5S is not surprising. It is worth mentioning that when Q5S is connected to Bluetooth, it will indicate Bluetooth protocol with different light colors, such as SBC in blue, APTX in purple, LDAC in white, Huawei HWA in green, etc. Due to the limited number of mobile phones in hand, I failed to test all the formats. This intuitive display is a bonus.

In addition, in addition to the common wired and wireless decoding/earphone functions, Q5S is also very mature in supporting USB-DAC functions. It is also a common function to act as a computer sound card to improve the earphone output of PC.

interface, Q5S is inherently a line output at the top and a 3.5mm coaxial/LO/optical fiber input interface. However, the earphone output part is still designed with replaceable module. The standard AM3E module has both 3.5mm single-ended output and 2.5/4.4 double balanced output. And X7II universal replaceable ear amplifier module makes Q5S sound output have good playability, Feiao module price is relatively kind, from this point of view, Q5S does have a share of the traditional player selling point.

Sound Quality and Usage Scenes

sound quality, many people think that since it is the same hardware configuration, the sound of Q5S and M11 should be no different (AM3E's double balanced earphone output M11 is also available), but in fact, the author personally thinks that when driving potential earphones, Q5S's sound is more confident and has a slight advantage in density and thrust, not to mention the replacement of earphones.

, as far as the three-frequency quality is concerned, the first world war between Q5S and 3k-level players is not a big problem. After all, the system and screen are missing, and a lot of lifting materials and optimization can be made with this volume. What is more interesting is that in addition to the high and low gain lever, Q5S also has a low frequency gain lever, which instantly reminds the author of the DBB and MB sound switches on the old Sony tape drive and CD drive. However, after the low-frequency gain switch of Q5S is turned on, whether it is single-ended or balanced, it is obvious to improve the low-frequency sense and impact force, and there is no negative impact on the performance of medium and high frequencies, which is a relatively good physical EQ.

Q5S is still Feiao's balanced and simple style. The sound thickness of the balance port and the single port is slightly different (the sound thickness of the balance port is better than that of the 3.5mm single end), and the balance port has better separation and resolution. Q5S intermediate frequency has good density, moderate thickness and acceptable atmosphere. High frequency has no burrs and no deliberate darkening, which is a natural and smooth type. The low frequency quality is good, the sense of quantity is not too much, and diving is possible. The sound field is relatively open and has obvious marginal feeling. It belongs to a reductive sound field with healthy vertical and horizontal ratio, and is suitable for live music playback with popular human voice and small scenes. The analytical, the information is rich and the sense of hierarchy is excellent.

to say the shortcomings, Q5S's voice may still be a little more serious, lacking some proper sound dyeing to make the overall voice more vivid and bring the atmosphere to a higher level.

Of course, if you are an old user of the first or second generation of Feiao X7, you can also insert Q5S into your old ear card to get a different sense of hearing. As far as the performance of AM3E Q5S is concerned, it is relatively simple. With Feiao's own FH5, FA7 and FH7, it can get a good sense of hearing, and it can also have a good driving effect against large headphones such as Sony Z1000, which shows that Q5S is completely right in thrust.

From the matching point of view, if it is based on the standard AM3E earpiece module, then Q5S is suitable for matching with some thick and loose moving coil (or moving coil-based) earphones, such as Feiao FH5, Dayin 17th, AK T8IE2, Xingge Tongjue pro, etc., if possible, it is recommended to balance to obtain better quality.

usage scenarios, the author usually uses the Bluetooth connection Q5S of the mobile phone to balance the output, and the wired connection player to act as a decoding earpiece. In the more than one month since Q5S was used, it was also used as a computer sound card to drive headphones in the working environment. In short, its use scenarios are still more diverse.

All in all, Feiao Q5S, as a portable decoding earpiece product, not only achieved "qualification", but also showed "good" and above performance in sound, control, function, appearance and other aspects, and successfully carried forward the concept of "bucket machine" that Feiao has always adhered to in the past two years. Considering the price, for fans who need to use such products, is one of the few good choices.

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