Fiio E5 Headphone Amplifier ( with pics now )

Many would ask why headphone required an amp to drive. In fact, a good sound quality headphone is needed a good and suitable amp to drive it.
The drive I mean is that to make the full potential of the headphone able to do. Forget about whatever Beats by Dr.Dre shit products despite paying  a grand.
 It's still sucks ! Why it sucks yet so expensive ? Go and study Consumer Economic. In fact it is sucks. You bought it because of your stupidity.

Today I got a cheap and portable head amp here, and might as well give a simple review for people who look into affordable and decent amp.

The built quality of this amp is simply nice. It is made out of aluminium for whole chassis, except the buttons. It is featuring a big clip for you to clip the amp on something when you are in portable mode.
In the picture above, there is one mini usb port for you to charge the amp via your computer USB ports. While the other part is the input female 3.5mm jack, means plug the male-male 3.5mm jack between amp and your source.

Just plug your headphone to the hole as the picture shows above. Then you got volume adjustment bar obviously.
 Follow by ON/OFF button. The last one is Flat/Bass mode switch. Switch near to power button is flat mode and vice versa.

Now I'm going into the performance.
 My setup would be  PC->Creative X-Fi  SB046A sound card
 -> E5 (Flat Mode )-> Koss KSC-75 ( >1k Hours burn in ) 

Surprisingly the amp in flat mode tamed down the bass performance a lot. It's a lot lighter and don't sound boomy bass anymore. The mid clarity improved and sound brighter from now on.
 You will definitely love it when comes to listening female voice. The separation of  bass and mid became obvious, it sound lively on this lovely earphone instead of "cramping-alike" sound stage.

For bass head/lover, you just switch to bass mode if you find it bass is too light for you.
I find it superb even though with my open air earphone :D

There are 3 different colors of light in different mode.

Blue indicate power on



Red indicate charging



Red + Blue = Power on + Charging



Cons :  some people might complaint it gives too much hissing when comes to high volume from the amp.
On the other hand, there is also noise distortion when you playing while charging the device.
 This is subjective, it is depends on how clean your power supply is.
But I don't suggest to charge it while playing if the distortion is annoying ( to me it is ).

Conclusion : For the price you pay, this is a decent headphone amp. Its Price/Performance is high. Suitable for every user, for people who wants to explore audiophile.

Price : Rm85 only.