FiiO M7, an award-winning high-resolution lossless music player that supports LDAC, aptX-HD and DSD. Inside its compact and elegant body are Samsung’s 14nm Exynos 7270 processor and ESS’s Sabre 9018Q2C chip. This combination delivers extraordinary sound quality while offering great power efficiency. Up to 512GB storage expansion let you put a massive amount of music into your pocket. The M7 has a play time of 20 hours and a whopping 40 days standby time, thanks to its large 1180 mAh battery. Aided by a 3.2-inch touch screen and a contemporary flat UI design, your audio experience has never been so easy and convenient.
The M7 has been certified by the well-respected Japan Audio Association to be truly capable of “Hi-Res Audio”, so you know you are getting great music on the go.
The M7 is FiiO’s first player to use Samsung’s Exynos 7270 SoC (System on chip), made on the 14nm FinFET process. Compared to being made on the older 28nm process, the Exynos 7270’s two ARM Cortex A53 cores use 20% less power for greater power efficiency and better battery life. The Exynos 7270 is also made with Samsung’s groundbreaking SiP-ePoP packaging technology, which allows the storage, power management and memory chips to be all crammed with the ARM cores into a single tiny package 40% smaller than if the chips were packaged separately such as in existing technologies. This extra space allows for better cooling, and most importantly, a bigger batter to greatly improve play time.
Within the core of the M7 lies the Sabre 9018Q2C chip by ESS, a SoC that neatly combines a high-performance DAC and headphone amplifier into one tiny package. What separates this ESS chip from other commonly used combo audio chips are:
- the 9018Q2C has two independent power supplies, one each for the digital and analog sections,
- the internal headphone amplifier has its own independent dual power supply and
- adjustable LPF (low-pass filter), which provides developers with more flexibility to make the product sound exactly the way they want.
All in all, the 9018Q2C saves space on the PCB, reduces power consumption compared to competing solutions, and all while delivering up to 49mW of output power at a THD+N of -100dB.
*The 9018Q2C has a signal-to-noise ratio of -121 dB, THD+N of -115 dB, and support for up to 384 kHz/32 bit PCM and 11.2 MHz DSD (DSD256) audio.
The M7 utilizes a Samsung Bluetooth 4.2 chip that supports the aptX-HD audio codec, allowing you to enjoy your music in high fidelity without the hassle of wires. In addition, the M7 also supports Sony’s LDAC wireless audio codec, which compared to ordinary Bluetooth audio transmits 3X the data for an unparalleled, truly high-resolution audio experience.
*Both the receiver and transmitter must support LDAC, aptX, or aptX-HD in order to use these audio codecs.
How about some USB audio out?
To give you even more ways to jam out to your music, FiiO’s software team toiled through countless days and nights to bring you USB audio digital output functionality on the M7, with support for various sampling rates and DSD output (including DSD 128 support). With this, you can have the M7 act as a digital transport connected to an external device for digital-to-analog decoding.
*We currently only guarantee the FiiO Q1 Mark II and the Q5 as being totally stable when paired with the M7 through USB.
*This function requires the use of the FiiO CL06 USB Type-C to micro-USB adapter
Some may say that only having 2GB of built-in storage doesn’t make sense, and that a company shouldn’t even bother giving users such a paltry amount of storage. We at FiiO thought otherwise – even only 2GB of storage may be useful to people who only store a small amount of music and don’t bother with micro SD cards or who just want as much space as they can get for their music. So we worked tirelessly to ensure that users had access to this 2GB without affecting system fluidity or stability. Of course, if you want access to your huge library you can do that too – the M7 supports up to a single 512GB micro SD card for storage expansion.
Lying within the M7 is an 1180mAh battery that, thanks to the Exynos 7270’s advanced 14nm fabrication process, allows the device to have a play time of 20 hours or more, or a standby time up to a whopping 40 days! In standby mode, you can instantly wake up the device so you can enjoy your music immediately whenever you want while still saving tons of power.
With the M7, FiiO’s designers went back to the drawing board to create a UI that not only oozes with style but also doesn’t sacrifice usability in the process. The six icons of the main interface allow easy access to all you might need. The playing track interface is skinned with a contemporary flat design and supports covers, lyrics and tags.
The M7 employs a USB Type-C connector for connectivity, enabling for both more convenience (this symmetrical connector allows for insertion in either direction) and for more functionality (charging, file transfers and USB Audio are all supported).
With four vibrant colors to choose from – black, silver, red and blue – make yourself known and jazz out with M7!
