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And with this combination i have thoroughly enjoyed the well rounded and full bodied mids blending nicely together with the bass and the highs. T5 sounds more detailed, but also more harsh and can be fatiguing at times, having a more dry signature, where FD3 is smoother, more fluid and less fatiguing. The new shell looks equally good, outshining the FH5 and FH3, even if some might find the FiiO FD5 a bit too glossy. The midbass bleed gives a very pleasant warmth to the lower mids, and male vocals have very good body and note weight. The bass speed is natural leaning slow, which has a very natural presentation for rock, emo and acoustic music, but can feel a touch slow with extremely quick synthetic music.
The treble range of the FiiO FD3 is more highlighted and detailed especially when you use the black sound tube that increases the treble response. However, upon further listening the relatively high midbass quantity began to bother me and the FD3 began to come across as somewhat boomy on certain tracks. Bass is more extended and linear with the Aria, less punchy but with cleaner rumble and more natural resonance as well as less mids bleed. How do you please the huge dichotomy of enthusiast tastes in sound from a single tuning on an earphone.
But nothing could save this IEM for me or give it a big enough push in performance for me to rate it any better than I have here.
Mid range is cleaner and fuller in presence, more detailed and transparent yet not as thick and textured in timbre as FD3. The unique celluloid panel is covered with Z5D film coating glass for a pure yet fresh transparent look And the aluminium- magnesium alloy of the body makes the FD3 Pro exceptionally light, making it easier and more pleasurable to carry around. The MMCX connectors have a transparent housing and on each connector are right left indicators, which are a red ring on the right and a blue ring on the right connector. By far their best balanced tuning using the balanced filter but the longer I was using the FD3 I realized the new FD3 is much more versatile than what is presented with the tuning nozzles.
At the moment, FiiO didn’t announce a new FH7s, but since the FH5 was upgraded recently, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a new, improved FH7 coming later this year. Since I don’t like black filter and feel it become agressive bright, slightly sibilant and a bit unbalanced, this review is all about red filter but black filter sure add more treble energy and bite which might please treble head. The aluminium-magnesium alloy main body is made in an industrial process combining five-axis CNC processing and hand polishing. I will describe how the treble enhanced nozzle filter sounds on the FD3 in the sound description later on in the read.
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