Apos Audio is excited to announce our partnership with Ultimate Ears and that we are now an authorized reseller for their products! Like many brands we have added to our store, this was in response to our customers and members of the community requesting that we carry Ultimate Ears and we thank you all for your feedback. Like other brands that we sell, not only will you receive Ultimate Ears’ warranties & guarantees, Apos will provide our Extended 2-Year Warranty, Free Returns, and Free Priority Shipping. We also give all customers a 30-Day Lowest Price Match that, for the 2020 holiday season, has been extended till the end of the year.
We’re continuing our compendium collection for you all! These are the top reviews on the web that we’ve combed through, cut down, and combined so you can get all the influencer opinions in one convenient place. Links to the original posts are in the headline if you’d like to read them in their entirety. If there’s a product that you’re interested in us collating a review compendium for, please let us know! Without further ado, here’s the TOPPING D90 Balanced USB DAC Review Compendium for you to read and enjoy.
FiiO released a lot of portable devices capable of playing back music for the general public or for starry-eyed audiophiles, they even shown efforts for the wireless aficionados and released few products as well. At FiiO Spring Festival 2019 was shown a product what was positioned as a marriage between the best wireless sender/receiver and a portable audio player. I know personally some folks that adore their FiiO BTR3 but would kill to have a same kind of device but with an added player functionality. I’m glad FiiO pleased the crowd and decided to work on and release the tiny do-it-all M5. As a product placement, FiiO put it into the player category, looking at it myself it is much more than that, it fits in the BTR Bluetooth-enabled devices as well, hell, it even has a voice recorder function, a pedometer and can be used as a rudimentary smart-watch.
Disclaimer : The FiiO M6 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank FiiO for that! For me newest addition to the M series of DAPs from FiiO came as a surprise. I just didn’t see it coming and no one knew about the M6 development. A bigger surprise came after I realized that it is positioned lower and cheaper than M7 but it is more advanced in terms of feature set and even in the sound department. I mean, how could you do a cheaper alternative that sounds better and has overall more features? It is almost impossible!
Disclaimer : The FiiO M7 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank FiiO for that! FiiO redesigned their entire line of portable DAPs and M7 is first from this newborn series. At first inspection I realized that M7 is completely different from other DAPs rooted in X series of portable players, it’s surely a product destined and carefully mastered not only for audiophiles but for simple users as well. Due to newest Bluetooth technologies such as Aptx-HD and ultra-performing LDAC codec, incorporation of a FM Radio receptor and of a much simpler to use Android 7 OS, M7 becomes an interesting device for anybody that has a minimal interest in sound quality. All the changes went into the right direction and I predict it will be a successful portable DAP.
FiiO never ceases to amaze me, few months ago I was testing their new flagship IEM: the F9, a few months later their new F9 PRO flagship and now they done it again with the FH5. I would not be shocked if at this very moment they are already tinkering with a new flagship IEM, FiiO is on fire and I like that. FH5 sets apart from the other IEMs they done in the past, from the moment you unpack them you start to understand they are surely in the big boy category with this one. Unboxing experience was like a much higher priced IEM, I’m glad they are making time into thinking better ways to carefully pack a premium product.
To our customers, readers in the community, and fellow audiophiles, we unfortunately have some bad news regarding the high-end Japanese chipmaker Asahi Kasei Microsystems, or as we all know them, “AKM.” On October 20, a fire began at the AKM manufacturing facility in Japan and grew out of control, ultimately burning for 82 hours before it was extinguished on October 23. The fire was devastating and the entire semiconductor facility is now shut down and all AKM production has come to a halt. To simply say that this is bad news for the audiophile community would be putting it mildly. AKM is one of the most popular chips used in many high-end DACs and Amps, many of which Apos sells. This news is par for the course when it comes to calamitous events in 2020, but we are glad to hear that there were no reported fatalities from the approximate 400 employees who were working inside the AKM facility at the time the fire broke out.
Audeze is a company that values incremental progress. Rather than flooding the market with new models quarter after quarter, the California-based company makes technical improvements to their existing models, bettering them over time. Because of this, the Audeze LCD-X of 2013 is not the same headphone as the LCD-X of today. If anything, its fandom has only grown.
What do the FiiO Q3, Abraham Lincoln, and Diana Ross have in common? They’re middle children. Middle children are dealmakers and negotiators. Often finding themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place (siblings, for instance), they learn to compromise and forge ahead. Although we don’t expect the Q3 to have quite the historical legacy as Lincoln or Ross, we love how it navigates technical challenges and user expectations with a middle child’s approach.
The popularity of our SMSL SU-9 Compendium made us decide to go through the existing reviews for our most popular products and do the same thing. Below you will find a collection reviewing the TOPPING A90 Amp. While many of you have already read these reviews in their entirety already, we've combined and collated the material all in one spot for you to easily go back and find the highlights to help you make a purchase decision. If there's another product out there that you would like us to do a compendium on, feel free to let us know! In the meantime, enjoy the compendium on the TOPPING A90 Amp!