Do it. Itās a fantastic little thing, and I donāt even have my balanced 6XX cable yet.
Yeah, Iāve heard good things. I think Iāll buy the white one. I like it better and it comes with a case on AliExpress.
mine will be here Saturday, gonna tac this to the back of the THX portable. gonna test with 600ās and 6xx when it arrives Tuesday, use case will be for bluetooth from my TVā¦
Needing some help with the BTR5 and an iPhone Pro Max. I had the BTR5 on the LDAC codec and started messing with the other ones to see what they sounded like. Now the BTR5 wonāt do anything but SBC no matter what I change the codec to. Doing this via the FiiO music app. Have rebooted and hard booted the iPhone to no avail. BTR5 is still in SBC. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
The only codec the iPhone supports is AAC. So if you turn that codec off in the FIIO app, then it automatically reverts to SBC. AAC is still good, but if you want better, your only option with the iPhone is using the BTR5 as a USB DAC. To do that youāll need the iPhone camera adapter plus a USB A to USB C.
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Ah ok I gotcha. I had a feeling it might be something like that. Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. There are days when I miss my Google Pixel.
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Enable AAC and you should be good to go.
Iāve tried to A/B test and I couldnāt really tell the difference between iPhone AAC and Pixel LDAC.
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Oh really? Now thatās interesting. That makes me feel a lot better actually about using AAC with the BTR5. I was getting extremely confused trying to understand these codecs and bluetooth codecs. As a newbie to all this I realize how little I actually know.
Noā¦ differences between headphones will all be enormous compared to just āthe same file in .mp3 vs the originalā ā mainly because I donāt even think itās scientifically possible to release two pairs of headphones and do, like, āwe took the exact same technicalities, but added a ton of detailā.
For a size reference to the THX portable, jds labs ultra short 3.5 on the way, Iām digging the profile so far, will get to listen tonight
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Holy crapā¦driving my 80ohm beyers on high gain 50/60 volume, wow bass is huge with just the unit, Amazon HD from iPhone, I am shook
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Iāve been using the BTR5 for a couple of months and like it a lot for my office headphones (DT177x). I was wondering what the volume recommendation is on the BTR5 around using this for bluetooth audio through my carās 3.5 Aux port. If I were plugging in a phone, iād max volume and control output through the carās volume control. Should I use the same method with this device?
Try it and as long as you donāt have distortion or noise youāre gtg. If you do get some static, back the BTR5 down to about 80%
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i plan on buying a fiio BTR almost exclusively for when i get a mobile phone with no headphone jack for IEM useā¦ is the sound quality much better on the BTR5 compared to the BTR3K?
Am I the only one whoās slightly annoyed by FiiOās decision to have āNext Trackā mapped to āVolume Downā long press, instead of āVolume Upā? 
(not sure if thereās an option to change it, havenāt look yet)
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Iām already annoyed by this and donāt have a BTR5. Wtf, bad choice.
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can btr5 support desktop and support microphone 4 pole 3.5 jack plug ? like beyerdynamic mmx 300 gen 2
I havenāt tried it but the answer is apparently yes.
I canāt tell you how many times that caught me off guard.
can you try microphone 4 pole 3.5 jack plug ?