Sha1rholder
Member
Quite different.
-
Welcome to ASR. There are many reviews of audio hardware and expert members to help answer your questions. Click here to have your audio equipment measured for free!
FiiO FT7 is out
- Thread starter Soria Moria
- Start date
ErinPraline
Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2025
- Messages
- 45
- Likes
- 40
Still can't find measurements for these anywhere but maybe I'm not looking hard enough
OP
Soria Moria
Addicted to Fun and Learning
- Thread Starter
- #23
Attachments
ErinPraline
Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2025
- Messages
- 45
- Likes
- 40
Could be better but nothing EQ can't fix
SuperSplashBrothers
Member
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2025
- Messages
- 9
- Likes
- 3
Thanks for sharing. It looks pretty good but I'm a bit concerned about the treble. Would love to see this measured on one of the GRAS rigs, they tend to give me a better insight into how I may experience treble than 5128 does. Guess I'll have to wait til Amir gets hands on it.
Noodles
Senior Member
There are a few measurements for these on squig.link already. They look pretty good so far.
ErinPraline
Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2025
- Messages
- 45
- Likes
- 40
tbh I don't trust any measurements not made by Amir mostly because the others are being made subjectivists on non standardized rigs with no protocol incentivized to present pretty looking measurements and thus are often presenting overly smoothed measurements to hide imperfections
Curupira
Addicted to Fun and Learning
You can trust sai.squig , Oratory, listener , hangout.audio/crinacles and resolves, they all know what they're doing and have proper equipment, if not the same as amirm (GRAAS 43AG)
ErinPraline
Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2025
- Messages
- 45
- Likes
- 40
Oratory's measurements are for EQ not for review, I guess I should have specified I meant within the context of reviews. The rest absolutely are as I described, presenting overly smoothed measurements to hide imperfections, some don't even post distortion measurements or present them (and frequency responses) in misleading ways. Harman's research was done on the GRAS but reviewers are increasingly talking about the B&K 5128 as being superior to the GRAS and switching to it misleading people into thinking the GRAS Harman curve is 1 to1 to their approximation of the curve on the B&K. Amir and Oratory are the only ones actually following the science
unpluggged
Major Contributor
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2023
- Messages
- 1,364
- Likes
- 1,724
The only one who is misleading here is you.
solderdude
Grand Contributor
The FT1 Pro which uses a very similar driver (or at least one with the same dimensions) had either QC or design flaws which caused the bass to clip with harmon bass boost. Your review of that headphone didnt show that, but at least the FT7 not compressing by 1db in the bass is reassuring.My FT7 review is up.
FT7
back to FiiOback to measurementshome Published: Apr-06-2026, updated May-01-2026 NO SMOOTHING is applied to the shown plots. Most measurement sites have some smoothing applied which ‘irons flat’ sh…diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com
solderdude
Grand Contributor
The drivers of the FT7 are quite different in construction.
It is a seriously good sounding planar magnetic headphone that really only needs to have the 8.5kHz peak lowered about 5dB.
This will 'smooth' the treble.
I could turn up the volume very high on the FT1pro and JT7 and could not 'clip' it.
Perhaps an amp or digital signal was clipping ?
Maybe a specific unit had an issue ?
It is a seriously good sounding planar magnetic headphone that really only needs to have the 8.5kHz peak lowered about 5dB.
This will 'smooth' the treble.
I could turn up the volume very high on the FT1pro and JT7 and could not 'clip' it.
Perhaps an amp or digital signal was clipping ?
Maybe a specific unit had an issue ?
Last edited:
I just freshly retested my pair, and yes, this causes extremely audible distortion and I can hear it in real content, and I remember it being especially bad in movies. Take this clip from the movie Bolt; at minute 3:03, I can hear audible rattling and thumping that I cannot hear in my Para 2 on high gain. Not only that, the amount that it distorts is different between each earcup.
Amp is JDS Atom Amp 2 at max volume in the low gain setting, which ought to be 2 volts. At 18 ohms, that ought to be about 220 milliwatts peak, and with an effective -4db digital cut, that lowers to less than 100 milliwatts peak. "Clipping" might not be the right word, it sounds like a rattle that more and more resembles a thumping sound as it gets louder, so driver excursion limit? I could definitely get my Para 2 to clip the internal amp on my Qudelix 5k and that sounds like actual harmonic distortion, not thumping. Furthermore
Also, this is definitelly not just my unit. Fiio released a press statement about it: https://fiio.com/newsinfo/1002816.html
solderdude
Grand Contributor
Acc. to FiiO this only occured on some (returned) early production models.
This was their first foray in planar magnetics.
When your copy is like this I would contact FiiO and get it replaced.
This all does NOT apply to the FT7 and most likely also not to the JT7 (again different driver).
The FT1 PRO I tested did not have this issue at that time.
This was their first foray in planar magnetics.
When your copy is like this I would contact FiiO and get it replaced.
This all does NOT apply to the FT7 and most likely also not to the JT7 (again different driver).
The FT1 PRO I tested did not have this issue at that time.
Last edited:
Actually, Sai at unheardlabs experienced clipping even earlier on the JT7. According to him, he reached out to Fiio and they also confirmed it was a real QC issue known to them. https://unheardlab.com/2026/02/15/fiio-jt7-review-a-budget-disruptor-or-a-bridge-too-far/
You can see the nearly 10 percent harmonic distortion in the bass in one earcup at a mere 94db. the other channel stays below 1 percent at all frequencies.
You're correct that both cases can be resolved through customer service.
