yeah its weird, sometimes it works fine, other days it struggles. weirdly it struggles more when the battary is less than half full.
battery life is kinda poor tbh
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The problem could be with the smartphone or the app. Everything worked great on my old Nokia. When this broke I bought a Crosscall. via the Fiio app, there are always a Lot of dropouts in Flac files, little bit in MP3. Then I switched to the Quobuz app and USB audio player Pro - these no longer caused problems. Applies to USB and Bluetooth
If anyone here is wondering how the BTR5 stacks up to the new Qudelix-5k. Hereās my writeup:
iāve heard the app is pretty horribleā¦ so i dunno whether to go with it, do the ES100 for its infamous perfect app, or whatever other LDAC supporting bluetooth DAC
Qudelix app is horrible? Not at all sir. Itās very clean and intuitive. The BTR5 app is way worse.
i was referring TO the BRT5
Ohhhh, yeah. BTR5 app does kinda suck. Oh well. Get the Qudelix if you want a good app and the latest and greatest.
Question: the EQ thing is only on the Fiio music app or the Control one too? Cause I use only the control app and it seems to work fine.
I donāt use much the EQ but as far as I can hear, it works for me with LDAC. I just think the difference is not significant over a full proper EQ as I tried on my PC, for example.
The Fiio app is a little buggy, but Iāve seen worse so for me itās ok. Canāt say about Fiio music thought.
Itās a hardware/firmware limitation. The app shouldnāt matter. The EQ on LDAC (and USB mode) shouldnāt work at all. FiiO said so themselves and thereās been no firmware update as of yet that corrects this.
Tried a small A/B with some pure tone test and in fact, the EQ donāt exactly work. It looks like the volume goes down by a little when you change the value on it (something like 2 decrements), that had thrown me off earlier, sorry about that.
good day to allā¦ i have a noob questionā¦ i hope someone can enlighten me on thisā¦ i have a btr5 and a fh3 with 2.5mm balanced cable comboā¦ i want to use the fh3 on a 3.5mm single ended input but i dont want to swap cablesā¦ the fh3 mmxc connection is really tightā¦ will a 3.5mm single ended male to 2.5mm balanced female adapter work and not do harm on the iem or btr5?
* The choice of FiiO app shouldnāt matter. 
What works is if you EQ system-wide with something like ViPER4Android. Only LDAC modes Viper canāt handle as far as I can tell are 96 kHz ones, everything else works.
Yes, you can convert balanced to single ended but not vice versa.
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thank you for the clarificationā¦ i appreciate it
the app is the only thing truly stopping me from considering it hereā¦ i dont want something to replace my already used stock application for music OR have to go through a lot of complicated stuff and difficulties just to get the right amplification and preamp and all that stuff
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Quite honestly I never use the app, donāt use eq, I can change everything on the device except codec which i have set to LDAC in the bedroom, use Legacy 3ās and FH3ās With the balanced output, really like it for my use cases
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I recently owned a Fiio FH3 and use it with the 2.5 mm connector in USB Dac mode. Today, however, the kHz display on the DAC no longer changes when changing songs. When I tried the 3.5 mm cable, everything worked again normally and after I switched to the 2.5 mm again, the problem was fixed there too. Iāll write that in here in case someone else gets this problem with the 2.5 mm portbund maybe someone here in the forum knows what could have caused this problem.
I have only used the app 1 time to set the settings I wanted to use. I play my music on my phone via MX Player and also use Audible for books. Daily use of the BTR5 is via the buttons on the side of the device. APP is not required to enjoy this device.
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