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WORLD AWARDS

BEST iiO have made their name with
high quality, reasonably priced
portable high-resolution music
players – but what do you
HEADPHONES F set of decent headphones.
need to go with them? Yes, a
So enter the company’s FH5 in-ear
monitors. Striking-looking, their all-metal
housings are made from an aluminium-
magnesium alloy with a ripple design on
the outside. But it is on the inside where
FiiO FH5 FiiO have really excelled. They’ve used a
quad driver arrangement with a 10mm
polymer dynamic driver allied to three
balanced armature devices one for mid-
range and two for high frequencies. This
all translates to superb sound quality.
The rolling bass on ‘Ocean Beneath The
Waves’ by The War On Drugs punched
hard without any overhang, while snare
drum was crisp and sharp. There’s a
slight warmth to the midband but it’s not
overdone so the whole sound is superbly
balanced. These are earphones you could
use with any player with complete confi-
Reviewed: January 2019 issue dence.
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