FiiO K9 PRO ESS Review – The King of All-In-Ones

Here’s the beautiful truth: plenty of all-in-one devices and DAC/Amp combos are coming and going around here, but there wasn’t a unit (or stack) that impressed me as much as K9 PRO did with my entire headphone collection. Be it Topping DX7 PRO, D30 Pro with A30 Pro, Keces S3, SMSL SU-9 with SH-9, M500, xDuoo XA-10, Aune S6 Pro, X1s GT or the Matrix Mini-i 3 PRO…K9 PRO outperformed them at simplest tasks as decoding zeroes and ones and amplifying the analog signal, without damaging the final outcome. I’m not trying to hype the damn thing, only spreading the truth about its close to perfect performance. In my case and with my particular headphones, K9 PRO outplayed before mentioned units as there’s no other way to describe its performance.

Finally, there’s an all-in-one unit that wouldn’t be holding back detail retrieval, fast transients, frequency response and wouldn’t rise distortion and noise to alarming levels. Besides its medium sized soundstage and limited power delivery with the Hifiman Susvara, I cannot complain about anything else. K9 PRO is a well-crafted, well-thought and great sounding unit, that will be putting to shame pricier units, several of which I just mentioned above. K9 PRO fully justified its price point, so much so that I find it dirt cheap considering its sky-high price to performance ratio.

 

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Author: Sandu Vitalie ; From: soundnews.net

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