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Pros: Thrillingly direct expansive, informative sound built to last Cons: Relatively chunky dimensions

In short, then, £599 is only a lot of money if you didn’t spend it on one of these. There’s an almost instinctive correctness to the way the FiiO sounds than makes most of its rivals sound mechanical and laboured by comparison. It doesn’t sacrifice momentum in order to bring all the subtleties of a recording to life, and it doesn’t overplay any area of the frequency range. In sonic terms it just doesn’t put a foot wrong: its sound is hefty but deft, astonishingly detailed, completely uncluttered and absolutely wide open.

But everything’s relative, of course - and if you consider the FiiO’s painstaking specification, premium materials, bank-vault construction and beautifully realised interface, you might consider the asking price could be worse.Īnd then when you hear the M11 Pro in action, you realise it’s among the most effective and enjoyable ways of becoming £599 poorer imaginable. At this price the M11 Pro couldn’t be described as a bargain.

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