https://www.anthonycossey.com/tags/r2r/ Recent content in R2R on Anthony Cossey Blog -- Music, HiFi, Studios and Stories Hugo en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.anthonycossey.com/posts/fiio-k17-r2r/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.anthonycossey.com/posts/fiio-k17-r2r/ <h5 id="fiio-k17-r2r--fiio-tears-up-the-chip-order">FiiO K17 R2R — FiiO Tears Up the Chip Order</h5> <p>FiiO has spent years building the K-series into the default desktop DAC/amp recommendation, but the K17 R2R is a different animal — it throws out the delta-sigma chip entirely and builds its own resistor ladder instead. That&rsquo;s a serious, expensive engineering decision for a company that could have just bought another ESS part off the shelf, and it signals FiiO wants to be taken seriously above the price bracket it built its name in.</p>