Comments on: FiiO’s $170 DP11 CD Player Is for Everyone Who Never Stopped Buying CDs

By: ORT

ORT — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:32:01 +0000

I hate transformer hum. I was working on some 27 ton electric cranes and the huge transformer on the back wall of the place started humming like a bunch of steroid filled hummingbirds. Extreme example? Yes but trying to listen to music with a humming transformer would be worse because it’s in my home.

ORT

By: Ian White

Ian White — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:18:09 +0000

In reply to ORT.

ORT,

They keep making them smaller. I think the Marantz would smoke this little guy by a lot, but FiiO tends to extract a lot of performance for an affordable price. My only caveat with FiiO’s cheaper stuff — some of it can be a dud. That new tube amplifier you love? Sounds great apparently, but slightly noisy transformers. I have enough noise in my life. 🙂

By: ORT

ORT — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:11:27 +0000

Wow! Yesterday I went to my local Best Buy and ordered a Marantz Model 60n in silver/gold. I decided on this as I like this color on my CD60 and I could not get it on the less costly but more inputs I would not use and otherwise beautiful Stereo 70s or the more minimal but sweet looking FiiO EA13.

I am a total Marantz Enthusiast. I just got a pair of JBL Stage2 280F for my Media room and they now flank my TCL QM9K 75″ TV. I removed the small Martin Logan Dynamo sub, placed the front TCL Z100 speakers atop each JBL and did the short recalculation for them.

I think it was Chris in a video here that recommended 4 Z100s as the best setup, so thank you Chris! If my memory is incorrect it’s due to medical and physical problems so please forgive me. I just had minor hand surgery so my typing is worser than ever!

Perhaps I will buy this FiiO DP11 for my bedroom setup. Its smaller footprint might go well with the Denon Home Amp I use there. Thank you, Ian!

ORT