- Fiio announces new flagship wired headphones, FT9
- 106 mm Plane magnetic drivers and 94db/mw sensitivity
- Comes later in 2025 for about $ 800
For the past few years, FIIO has taken a place in the heart of Techradar’s audio team: excellent, refined, audiophilic class sound from products that usually massively undermine the competition. The brand has taken large spots on our list of the best hi-res sound players as well as our location of the best wired headphones and now it has a new product to bother the second list.
I am really excited about the sound of its new flagship headphones, FIIO FT7, which are flat magnetic cable cans, as the company says “marks the highlight of the learned lessons and technological breakthroughs in all models” of its FT headphones.
Our FIIO FT5 review gave Fiio’s previous highest-end headphones the full five stars and said “They sound good, they are built to last from tactile and hard wearing materials, and they have an audiophile specification at a mainstream price.”
The new FT7 headphones have 106 mm flat driver with a 1µm membrane and 18 magnets on each side for a well-controlled magnetic field.
With a sensitivity of 94DB/MW, you would like to pair them with a headphone amplifier, but you probably already assumed that given the general mood here.
The grid is zebrawood with the characteristic stripes of that material. You have the option of using lambes or suede ear pads, depending on your sound profile and animal product preferences.
They weigh 427G, which is optimistically described as “lightweight” in the press release I received, though Fiio’s good gets the weight distribution right on the headphones, so I expect them to be comfortable enough to settle in.
You get a storage case made by the “Yauli Linen” with them too. What price for all this? Well, they will only be due later in 2025 with a predicted price of about $ 800 (about £ 630 / AU $ 1,250) – the exact amount is not confirmed until closer to the launch it seems.
As I said in the heading, $ 800 is definitely pushed beyond most definitions of affordable, but it all is relative-i hi-fi headphones a pair of flagship plane headphones can easily cost $ 2,000, so if Fiios headphones are even close On being this quality level, they are a bargain, kind.
This has been the case with products such as FIIO M11S and FIIO M23 audio players competing with high-end and expensive players from them as Astell & Kern for quality and specifications for much minor M11s are as good, we use it as our standard source unit For testing wired headphones and earplugs.
So I’m excited to see if FIIO can increase the headphones with another level successfully, especially since I’ve been a huge plan magnetic fan since the launch of Oppo PM-1 years ago, which I still have in a closet.
