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FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speaker – Aktive Desktop Speaker

It is the next step towards what FiiO Electronics Technologie Co. Ltd. calls the FiiO HiFi Desktop Experience Version 1.0 concept, the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers.

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  • The new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are designed to be compact yet powerful desktop audio speaker systems.

With the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers, FiiO Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. is now introducing another essential component of the strategy that the company calls FiiO HiFi Desktop Experience Version 1.0 and which is intended to move it from being a pure specialist for personal audio devices to a broader provider, specifically towards desktop audio solutions.

The new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are designed first and foremost to be paired with another system that is essential to the strategy just outlined, the FiiO R7 Desktop Digital Streaming Music Player and DAC/AMP.

The perfect partner for FiiO R7 Desktop Digital Streaming Music Player and DAC/AMP

As you know, the FiiO R7 Desktop Digital Streaming Music Player and DAC/AMP is a highly flexible desktop audio system that is a media player, streaming client, D/A converter, headphone amplifier and preamplifier all in one. In other words, a true all-in-one system of the latest design that only needs one thing: a pair of active speaker systems like the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers.

It is obvious that the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are designed to fit perfectly next to the FiiO R7, and that they are available in black or white.

Compact but extremely robust construction

It is particularly remarkable that the developers used an unusual material, because the cabinet of the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speaker is a die-cast Liquid Metal Cabinet, as the manufacturer points out, and thus attests to its highest stability. Sound-damaging resonances and vibrations are thus prevented from the outset.

It should also be emphasised that the FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are supplied with a stand so that the speakers, with a volume of only 2.35 litres, radiate optimally into the room at an angle of 7° to the rear. The speakers measure 163 x 120 x 132 mm.

Inputs include a pair of cinch sockets and a 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack. The control elements of the FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speaker – various buttons, a volume and tone control – are all located on the rear.

Two-way Bass Reflex System

The new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are a two-way bass reflex system that uses a 3.5-inch carbon fibre woofer and a 1-inch silk tweeter with waveguide, and whose bass reflex system features a double-diffused S-shape port tube.

The speakers are driven by Class D amplifier modules from Texas Instruments, which provide a power of two times 30 watts for the woofers and two times 10 watts for the tweeter.

This may not seem like much, but for a desktop audio system this is more than adequate power, in our opinion.

The manufacturer claims that the new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers have been tuned to deliver a smooth, warm sound character, but of course with a detailed imaging as well.

From a technical point of view, this means that the FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers reproduce a frequency response between 65 Hz and 20 kHz.

Finally, it should be mentioned that FiiO Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. enables lighting effects via an LED and an RGB controller, if desired. What is really relevant, however, is that matching cables are part of the scope of delivery, whereby the manufacturer states that these should be particularly high-quality solutions.

Prices and availability

The FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speakers are available immediately from specialist dealers, as described, in either black or white. The recommended retail price for this solution is € 380,-.

Getting to the point

The new FiiO SP3 High Fidelity Active Desktop Speaker is intended to be an ideal partner for the FiiO R7 Desktop Digital Streaming Music Player and DAC/AMP, the solution that FiiO Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. considers the flagship of its Desktop Audio Solutions Series. In the most compact way, a highly flexible hi-fi solution can be realised, not only at the desk, but wherever a modern, compact audio system is desired.

PRODUCTFIIO SP3 HIGH FIDELITY ACTIVE DESKTOP SPEAKER
Price€ 380,-
BrandFiiO
ManufacturerFiiO Electronics Technology Co. Ltd.
DistributionNT Global Distribution GmbH
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Michael Holzinger

Michael Holzinger, founder and editor-in-chief of HiFi BLOG and sempre-audio.at, has been working for years as a journalist in the fields of IT, photography, telecommunications and consumer electronics.

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