BTR5 Flagship Portable Hi-Fidelity Bluetooth Amplifier

FiiO, a china based brand famous worldwide for their powerful DAP's, amazing sounding IEM's and other audio products, they have released the latest iteration of their portable Bluetooth amplifier, the BTR series.

• High-Performance Dual DAC setup, featuring ES9218P DAC chip
• Dual Output ports,3.5mm standard and 2.5mm balanced output
• Bluetooth 5.0 supporting all the Bluetooth formats, like apt-X,apt-X HD, apt-X LL, LDAC, AAC and many more
• Native DSD decoding
• Control Chip XMOS XUF208
• Flagship Bluetooth chip from Qualcomm, the CSR8675
• OLED Display
• Detachable back clip
• 550mAh battery offering 9 hours of battery life
• Built-In NFC
• Also works as USB DAC for PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android

Dual DAC Setup for Neat Sound Quality

The FiiO BTR5 comes equipped with dual DAC setup, featuring two powerful sabre DAC's ES9218P, which reproduces sound precisely and neatly.
Dual DAC's working together gives out a powerful output of 220mW at 32ohms load and 7.6Vpp at 300 ohms.

The DAC's ensure that there is no noise in your music and the sound output is amplified properly with great power.

Dual Headphone Output Slots

The BTR 5 has two slots for your headphones, one 3.5mm single-ended and one 2.5mm balanced output ports, where each channel is driven separately from the other with its own DAC and amplifier.

Both the headphone slots give purer clearer sound experience with ultimate details.

Flagship Bluetooth Chip

The BTR 5 is equipped with flagship-level Bluetooth chip from Qualcomm the CSR8675, which supports Bluetooth 5.0 and supports a lag-free Bluetooth experience.

FiiO BTR5 features all the bluetooth formats ranging from AAC,aptX,aptX HD,aptX LL,LDAC and more.

Longer Battery For Longer Music Sessions

The FiiO BTR 5 features a battery of 550mAh, which provides continous music playback of upto 9 hours, and even if that is not enough for you the BTR 5 just need 1.5 hours of charging time to fully charge.

FPGA and Dual Active Crystal Oscillators

FPGA, along with the help of dual active audio crystal oscillators, greatly improves the sound quality, making it noise and jitter-free with providing a stable connection.

OLED Display to Show All Details

The FiiO BTR5 features a 0.49 inch OLED display which displays pairing mode, Connection status, call status, power status, encoding format, and volume, which you can also use to view charging status, adjust or change EQ setting, enable car mode and more.

Dual Mic with cVc 8.0 Noise Cancellation

The FiiO BTR5 has an omnidirectional microphone with cVc 8.0 noise cancellation which adjusts the microphone's gain and suppresses the background noise which makes call quality crisp and clear.

One-Touch NFC Connection

The BTR5 offers one-touch NFC connection which makes it very easier to connect to NFC enabled devices.

Strong and Ergonomic Build

The BTR5 is built strongly with aluminum alloy body, which is paired with a curved glass on the front and backside, making the device smooth and tough.
The Device looks brilliant and has a strong build quality.

One Button to control the Device

The BTR5 has a one multi-function button that does all the functions like, play/pause/pairing/accept call/reject call/hangup/open voice assistant.

Support with FiiO Music App

You can download FiiO Music App and remotely control different functions in the BTR5 like switching between different low pass filters, changing EQ setting and many more.

Updates in Fiio BTR5 compared to BTR3 

1. Update from Bluetooth 4.2 to Bluetooth 5.0 

2. Update battery capacity from 300mAh to 500mAh

The 300 mAh battery in the BTR3 takes only 1.5 hours to fully charge but the 500mAh battery in BTR5 takes 2 hours using quick charging.  

3. Update DAC chip from AK4376A to Dual ES9218

Comparing with AK4376A DAC in the BTR3,  Dual DAC ES9218  in  BTR5  offers high resolution, clear and powerful output with low output impedance, while being very power efficient. This change not only has the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increased, but distortion has also been reduced for greatly improved sound quality. 

4.  Fiio BTR5 Weighs a little more

BTR5 size is 72*32*11.3  while BTR3 size is 58*25*10.4mm. Because of increased battery capacity, the weight of BTR5 is increased to 43.7g from 25g but it is still very convenient to take out. 

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