Review on FiiO FH7 Black Hybrid Earphones with 5 Drivers (1 Dynamic + 4 Balanced Armatures), Customizable Filters, and High-Fidelity Audio for Smartphones, Tablets, and PCs by Van Chayathon ᠌

Name: FiiO FH7 Black Hybrid Earphones with 5 Drivers (1 Dynamic + 4 Balanced Armatures), Customizable Filters, and High-Fidelity Audio for Smartphones, Tablets, and PCs
Item: FiiO FH7 Black Hybrid Earphones with 5 Drivers (1 Dynamic + 4 Balanced Armatures), Customizable Filters, and High-Fidelity Audio for Smartphones, Tablets, and PCs
Rating: 5

February 23, 2023

The perfect purchase for me, exactly what I was looking for!

1. So far I have tested not with the coolest sound sources that one could wish for - with the X3-III player, as well as with the Weihua P10 Minus smartphone (it does not have a high-level DAC, but in general, by the standards of smartphones, the sound path is quite decent). but even with such sources, the FH7 showed a tangible superiority in sound quality over the F9 Pro and simply colossal - over the F5, and these ears, in turn, were also not made with a finger. 2. Soon I'm going to buy an M9 player from the same manufacturer, where the declared sound indicators are higher than those of the X3-III. and if with this player I notice a serious increase in sound quality, I will add a review. 3. the main question that torments everyone who reads reviews: are these headphones worth the money? Let's put it this way: if high-quality sound is VERY important for you, and for the sake of it you can afford to shell out about 40 thousand (even if not immediately, but you are ready to save this amount) - then buy it, you won't regret it.
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Pros

1. clear, detailed sound. 2. they swing easily from any source, and squeeze the maximum possible from any source (see comment). 3. Detailed sound is maintained even at very low volumes. 4. the sound is neutral, when using default filters and ear pads, the headphones do not have any "dark", "light" or any other color, there is just pure music. perhaps the only metaphor that can be applied to the nature of the sound of these headphones is a "transparent" sound. 5. three pairs of interchangeable sound filters-nozzles, I personally don’t need them, but thanks to their presence, these ears will suit lovers of bass, even frequency response, and sonorous highs. 6. the crossover is tuned perfectly (even when I connected headphones to the synthesizer and played a chromatic scale with all notes from subcontroctave mi (20.5 Hz) to octave G inclusive (6272 Hz), I did not notice any flaws). 7. with the exception of just one cable in the kit (see flaws), VERY generous package (see photo).

Cons

1. there is no balanced cable in the kit, and there is also no cable with a microphone (there were two cables in the F9 Pro kit - a regular one with a microphone and a balanced one without a microphone, but here there is only one - a regular one without a microphone). to be honest, for such a price they could put a balanced cable. I personally can live without it, but someone else will have to buy more. 2. Mounting on MMCX connectors is not tight enough. No, the headphones do not detach spontaneously from the cable, but they turn too easily along the axis of the connector, which creates a feeling of insufficiently reliable fastening. I haven’t figured out yet whether the problem is in the headphones or in the bundled cable (I’ll still experiment), but I didn’t have such a chatter on the F9 Pro and F5.