FiiO FA9 In-Depth IEM Review - Switch Me On!

With this release, I feel that FiiO wants to have two proper flagships in their portfolio. FA9 will impress a lot of people that are into technicalities, that really like details in their music and that are not into dips or rises. FA9 is almost dead neutral and linear sounding most of the time. Just in case you’ll want to raise that dopamine level in your blood stream, just pop the treble and the bass switch and transform them into fun and enjoyable sounding IEMs.

The impedance switch was another life-saver that made all my audio sources considerably less noisy sounding and very manageable in the long run. FA9 worked amazing well with all desktop amplifiers and with far from perfect DAPs. Its linear and noiseless performance makes system matching a non-issue as I’m yet to hear a bad pairing with FA9.

Sound wise, I don’t consider it as a clear upgrade over FH7, but more like a different flavor. Probably the coolest thing is that with most IEMs it is either a love or hate relationship, but with FA9 that relationship can be altered and tuned exactly to your preference and I’m pretty sure there is a setting that will work best for you.

At $499.99, FA9 has close to zero cons and it is an absolute pleasure to recommend such a great sounding IEM. You can purchase them directly from FiiO’s AliExpress Store, you can try your local distributor or you can get them from HiFiGo which is shipping them worldwide. I am not affiliated with either of them, so get them from your favorite store.

--------------------------------------------

Author: Sandu Vitalie; From: soundnews.net

Head over to the site to continue the reading: >> Click here