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FiiO - FA1

Name: FiiO - FA1
Brand: FiiO
SKU: FiiO - FA1 - Black
Price: 7299.0 INR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

In-Ears With 1 Balanced Armature Driver

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Balanced Armature
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Headphones with a Balanced sound signature presents a precise sound and an enriching listening experience, where sounds are naturally presented without extreme emphasis on any region. With a pair of headphones with this sound signature, you can hear audio with clarity and detail. The sound is vivid and revealing, a perfect mixture of instruments and vocals, lows, mids, and highs. This sound signature works for most music listeners who like switching between various music genres like Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Folk and Pop.

If you’re someone who enjoys listening to music while commuting, then you know the value of a good pair of headphones or earphones. These headphones allow you to listen to your favourite track, make that important call on the go or even block out the world for a focused podcast listening experience. You can expect these headphones to offer a seamless connectivity experience via a wired connection or a wireless one. They are lightweight in design and provide isolation or noise cancellation as an added functionality.

These Wired Earphones are designed for discerning music lovers. If you are someone who cares about audio quality deeply, you'll want a pair of Wired Earphones like these. You can expect these Wired Earphones to present you with a refined listening experience. The audio quality exhibited by these Wired Earphones is a beautiful mix of musicality, technical brilliance and high precision. These Wired Earphones deliver a spacious and open soundstage that compares listening to music on actual speakers.

The ability to carry your favourite headphone around is priceless for those who value them. These headphones and devices offer the ultimate portability experience without sacrificing sound quality. If you’re someone who appreciates cutting edge engineering, quality sound and portability, then look no further. Designed to be trusty companions, these headphones and devices are cleverly engineered with the latest technology to offer the ultimate combination of portability + hi-fidelity.

A pair of headphones with a replaceable cable has many benefits, and one of them is if the connecting cable has a problem, it doesn’t mean that you have to buy a new one. If the connecting cable gets pulled or damaged, you can replace it and keep using your good-old headphones or IEMs. This way, your headphones will be protected and will last longer. With the advancements in cable manufacturing, you now get a variety of replacement cables with various termination options, lengths and quality.

One thing all of our phones have in common is that they have replaced the portable media player. These headphones and devices are perfect to pair with your Android and iOS devices and offer functionality previously unknown. If you’re someone who usually switches between a variety of devices with different OS, then these are suited for you. You can expect these headphones and devices to connect seamlessly without any hassle and even offer OS-specific functionality depending on the device. Headphones and devices designed to work with Android and iOS come in wired and wireless formats. Quite often you will also find Hi-Fi equipment offering direct connectivity to devices with Android and iOS to simplify the connectivity process.

Every time you reach for the headphone cables to connect them to your headphones, and no matter how neatly you wrapped them up, they end up in a giant Gordian knot of frustration. Tangled cables are the bane of modern existence, and everyone owning a wired pair of headphones or IEM can attest to this. With advances in cable making techniques and radical approaches to manufacturing, there are now several solutions to this universal problem. You get Flat cables, Mesh Design cables, cables coated with exterior covers and cables designed with a zipper style design to avoid Tangle and attempt to solve the issue.

When you want to be constantly hooked to your music, you’d need a pair of lightweight headphones – one that you can wear and forget about instead of one that keeps pressing you down with its weight. And contrary to popular belief, the sound quality of your headphones doesn’t change with weight. Recent designs have combined durable, yet light materials to construct lightweight headphones that are sleeker, trendier and more comfortable than ever before. Of course, lightweight headphones are also easy to take along wherever you go – they don’t add weight to your bag or occupy too much space.

The entry-level FA1 is neutral and analytical with accurate tonal reproduction. The Knowles-tuned Balanced Armature driver earphone is suited for a purist seeking perfect replication of sound.

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FiiO has had remarkable success in developing a line of IEMs that combines the stunning appearance and superb audio quality. FiiO's Balanced Armature driver line-up has always amazed the critics with its single BA setup that presents exceptional tonality and clarity with smooth bass texture. Made out of advanced industrial-grade 3D printers, the FiiO FA1 uses DLP printing technology with a resolution up to 25 um. This 3D printing method delivers greater unit-to-unit consistency and outstanding sound, which sets it apart from conventional moulding or injection moulding processes. The FiiO FA1 includes the Knowles BA driver and cutting-edge 3D printing technology to make high-quality sound available to everyone.

Employing a customised BA driver jointly developed by FiiO and Knowles, the FiiO FA1 is all set to deliver mesmerising sonic performance. The 33357 BA driver, which is incorporated in FA1, produces melodic sound with accuracy and has good soundstage and imaging. The FA1 can be coupled with nearly anything, including your phone, thanks to this driver's low impedance of 15 ohms. The sound is realistic and smooth thanks to a specifically created micrometre sound tube. Overall, these configurations support the FA1's ability to generate fast, powerful bass, rich mids, and detailed treble that will increase your appreciation of your favourite music.

The FiiO FA1 is stunning to look at because of the way it combines the eye-catching ripple texture faceplate with the lovely transparent body. Take time to appreciate the detailed intricacies of FA1's design. This design was finalised after testing tens of thousands of human ears to offer supreme comfort and to allow the sound to flow naturally into your ears. Adding to this comfort is the low weight of 4.5g per unit with the skin-friendly resin material used in the outer shell of the FA1. The resin is highly durable and can retain its colours for years.

The cable for the FA1 is 3.5mm-terminated and constructed of oxygen-free copper-plated silver wire, which can transfer quality sound. The bundled cable is tangle-free and has no microphonics whatsoever. The FiiO FA1 comes with multiple eartips to suit your music tastes. Three pairs of eartips for bass and three pairs for balanced sound are included in the bundle. A lovely waterproof carrying case for your IEMs is included in the box to protect the IEMs from wear and tear.

FREQUENCY GRAPH

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Regions of the frequency spectrum

SUB BASS
(20Hz - 80 Hz)

The first section of the frequency spectrum is the sub-bass. Everything below 80Hz is sub-bass, so generally, you need a subwoofer or a good pair of headphones (open-back headphones, for example) to hear this region. This region comprises instruments like the Kick Drum and the Bass Guitar. You should be able to hear Sub-Bass if you’re listening on monitors or headphones. But if you’re listening on a laptop or a phone, there’s no way you will hear that.

MID BASS
(80 Hz - 300 kHz)

After the Sub-Bass region, we get into the region known as the Bass or Mid-Bass. This region consists of everything between 80 and 300 hertz. In this area, we’ve got instruments like bass guitar and the low end of a snare. Lots of the low-end vocals as well, because male vocals are going to have the fundamental below 200Hz in most cases.

LOWER MIDRANGE
(300 Hz - 1000 kHz)

Next, if you go from 300 Hz up to 1000 kHz, this is known as the Lower Midrange, and this is a crucial region for music because this is where you get a lot of buildup with guitars, vocals, and even the top-end of the bass guitar especially. Lower Midrange is an area guilty of adding mud to a mix and clarity in this region lifts a track exponentially.

UPPER MIDRANGE
(1 kHz - 6 kHz)

Human hearing focuses inherently on this frequency range. So it’s crucial to get this range right. This region consists of the main focus of the track (e.g. vocals) and synths. Be aware that this is also where you can start to get into harshness and aggressive tones.

TREBLE
(6 kHz - 10 kHz)

After the Upper Midrange, we’ve got the Treble region between 6kHz and 8 kHz, and this is where things start to get harsh. This region is where we have brittleness from instruments like the Hi-Hats and Cymbals. This is also a crucial range for clarity and aggression, especially for female vocals.

AIR
(10 kHz - 20 kHz)

At the end of the frequency spectrum, we get to the Air region or the Top End. This region consists of everything above 10 kHz. This is where we have air and this is where we get a sense of shine and sparkle in our music.

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Sound Signature
Driver Type	Balanced Armature	DLC Diaphragm Dynamic Driver	Hybrid Drivers	DLC Diaphragm Dynamic Driver
Driver Configuration	1x Balanced Armature Drivers	1x Dynamic Driver	2x BA + 1x Dynamic Driver	1x Dynamic Driver
Detachable Cable	MMCX	MMCX	MMCX	MMCX
Sensitivity	111dB	111dB	114dB	111dB
Impedance	15Ω	32Ω	24Ω	32Ω
Connector Type	3.5mm	3.5mm	3.5mm	3.5mm/4.4mm/2.5mm
In The Box	FiiO FA1 IEMs Detachable MMCX Cable 3 X Enhanced Bass Tips (S/M/L) 3 X Balanced Sound Tips (S/M/L) Waterproof Carrying Case Cleaning Brush	FiiO FD3 IEMs 4-Stranded High-Purity Monocrystalline Copper Cable Balanced Eartips (S3, M3, L3) Bass Eartips (S3, M3, L3) Vocal Eartips (S3, M3, L*3) Foam Eartips X 2 Cleaning Brush Carrying Case MMCX Assist Tool User Manual Interchangeable Sound Tube	FiiO FH3 IEMs Detachable Cable With MMCX Connectors 3 X Balanced Sound Tips (S/M/L) 3 X Enhanced Bass Tips (S/M/L) 3 X Enhanced Vocals Tips (S/M/L) 2 X Foam Tips Carry Pouch Cleaning Brush.	FiiO FD3 Pro IEMs 8 Strands Of 19 Wires Each For A Total Of 152 Wires Braided Cable Balanced Eartips (S3, M3, L3) Bass Eartips (S3, M3, L3) Vocal Eartips (S3, M3, L*3) Foam Eartips X 2 Cleaning Brush Carrying Case MMCX Assist Tool User Manual Interchangeable Sound Tube Swappable Plug
Experts Verdict	"It puts an emphasis on providing a clear listening experience with great resolution, highlighting vocals with enhanced clarity regions and safe yet supportive treble.High quality 3D printed housings." Head Fi	"Excellent balanced tuning with 2 nozzle filters balanced and enhanced treble nozzles which is improved from their previous FD5. Two more distinctive sound tunings due to how good the nozzles work." Head Fi	"The best thing about the FH3 is its sound. To my ears, it’s class-leading. The tonal balance, note size and weight, detail, naturalness and layering are shockingly good for an IEM." Prime Audio

Don't sweat it, this FiiO - FA1 comes with a warranty from FiiO that covers manufacturing defects. All products featured on Headphone Zone are backed by an original manufacturer's warranty.

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Awarded in earphone

VGP
Nov, 2019

Gold
Award

Major HiFi
July, 2019

"The package is very competitive and overall completeness/ balance in the sound is very satisfactory, outperforming many items at the given price making it an easy recommendation."

"It puts an emphasis on providing a clear listening experience with great resolution, highlighting vocals with enhanced clarity regions and safe yet supportive treble.High quality 3D printed housings."

"The FA1 are a pair of affordable wired earbuds that offer balanced sound, The earhook design and lightweight form factor of the earpieces themselves made the FA1 comfortable to wear for longer periods."

"It actually sounds really good with pop, rock, hip-hop, and classical tunes. Boom. Match made in heaven, folks. Buy this baby and live happily ever after."

"The FiiO FA1 is a compelling in-ear monitor, especially when you factor in the comfort, build quality and the excellent carrying case. Excellent carrying case included."

"The housing of the FA1 combine several features that makes them an extraordinarily comforatble earphone to wear. Can be driven with any smartphone, High volume output."

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Spotting the ED33357 single balanced armature.the FA1 is relatively bass-light, out of the box resolution and tonal balance is quite impressive. If you are new to the earphone hobby, you will immediately feel the rich details in the treble while nothing in the spectrum is overly emphasized.Using the FA1 with phones, you will notice the boost in clarity especially in the treble, the bass is quite shy and attacks comfortably not covering up the sub-bass content. This helps the bass extension sound deeper and makes the overall tuning more dynamic. The tuning is not veiled on either the treble or the lows although it is limited by a single driver’s capability. The soundstage is fairly large and there are no obvious flaws in the tuning.In particular, I like how the crispiness in the treble makes the upper vocal range and percussion instruments more pronounced, strengthening the texture and resolution of female vocals and violins.The FA1 works great with better-mastered tracks that display fuller-bodied mids, playing better mastering hi-res tracks density in the vocal part will be boosted. You may find it a bit leaned with male vocals having some mid-range frequencies dipped and to enhance the midbass impact you may try some slight equalizing.When paired with sources that have a higher gain factor the treble is quite aggressive and switching to the bass tips supplied may help balance out the tuning

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Analytical King!

I wanted a neutral and analytical sounding earphones for my collection and this exceeded my expectations. Actual reasons to go for this earphones were: 1. I wanted FIIO IEM, 2. HI-RES certified and 3. Accurate sounding earphones. The build quality and sound quality is impressive from the get go. Since I had FIIO JD3, I had an idea of quality while buying these. After hearing many fun tuned IEMs, having an analytical sounding earphones is really relaxing and having a reference set certainly makes our listening experience more pleasurable and peaceful. Also I would like to highlight that some reviewers said it can sound based on your input device sound signature and it does transform into an IEM anyone likes!, for eg. when I plugged to ifi audio Hip dac 2 with xbass on, the FA1 delivered bass perfectly, since it generally does not have bass. It might sound Magical, but you have to try them to understand that they indeed magical sounding sets. I feel blessed to have these sets, thanks to HPZ and short description in the product page by headphone guru (for this IEM Raghav) made my purchase decision damn right.!

This makes us really happy and we really appreciate the genuine feedback! We're glad that you have such positive thoughts about our product and the company.

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Lively and fresh

Rather than going into details such as mids highs and base, I would love to say this IEM feels fresh and lively. The details are pretty good. I can easily pick up on the textures in the instrument even at the far end. Decent and good sound staging I would say at this price point. The sound is not cramped hence can feel the space and I can hear for hours. The earpiece looks gorgeous. Just beautiful. The build is good. The cables are good as well... I was worried about the tangling issue like in the blon bl03 but this does not get tangled. The fit is good with the earhook.

In short, great balanced IEM. Love it... And thank you headphonezone guru for guiding. Thank you for the beautiful song recommendation cards.

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