FiiO BTR11 Bluetooth 5.3 Receiver LDAC 3.5mm Wireless Audio Headphone Amplifier Adapter (White)

Fantastic product for wired headphones. This increases older headphones or wired audiophile headphones compatiblility. You can use them in more places. I use this with KPH30i and Koss Portapro and Bose SoundTrue II wired headphones from decade ago. This way when the battery of this device break eventually in number of years I don't have to just buy whole new set of headphones. I can just get this! The Range is impressive and mic is good. I work at a call center and use my Koss portapro wired with these on a laptop and iPhone at the same time. Dual connection works great. Optionally this FiiO product gets software updates with the iPhone or android fido app. The latest update is supposed to fix (4-2026) is supposed to fix the volume sensitivity so that the lowest volume can be lower. Definitely worth the 20 bucks and it's from an Audiophile brand you know is going to give you good quality for the price. I mean LDAC for 20 bucks! Very nice a small and easy to use controls on any wired headphones with 3.5mm jack add basically add mic to headphones without one too. Great LDAC quality sound.

So, I’ve had this for a day. As usual, I always read all the 1 star reviews before I buy anything. It can point out potential weak spots in an item, and it can be amusing, too! Anyway, I received the product, and as so often happens, I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of this product, which left me scratching my head over some of the negative reviews. It was smaller than I expected, about the size of my pinky finger and a little wider. Tiny! The headphone jack fit is very tight and secure. It seats as it should. The USB-C port fit is tight and secure, and my cable clicked into place solidly when I charged the device. The button feel is solid and operationally works as advertised. The pocket clip could be beefier (as some other reviewers noted), especially as this unit is so tiny and light. But even with that being said, the headphone jack plugs in so securely that even if this thing falls out of a pocket, it’s not going anywhere unless you step on it. That probably wouldn’t do it any good, lol. But no way would it become detached from the headphones. Pairing was super quick and reliablewith the 3 devices I tried it on. The led indicator shows when it’s in pairing mode, the charge state and the selected bluetooth codec used. I ran it for 3 straight hours right out of the box without charging, then I charged it to full. During that time, no glitches, disconnects or other interference at all. I haven’t yet tested how far the Bluetooth range limit is, but during my initial test I got about 50 feet away from my transmitting device without any dropouts. I think the sound quality is better than a couple similar older devices I have, and I thought those sounded fine. For what it is and the price point, I’m very happy! For reference, my listening tests are using the LDAC codec transmitting from a Hi-Rez audio player through Focal studio headphones. The unit received and processed the LDAC codec as shown by it’s LED display. I am an audio engineer and a recording studio owner. I also do electronic repair. I point this out because I am a “trained” listener, and I have access to some very high-end audio equipment to compare to. So, while this doesn’t sound as good as when my ridiculously expensive studio headphones are plugged direct into my mastering grade headphone amp in the studio, I don’t expect it to. But I do get a very pleasant, high fidelity listening experience with no background noise that I can discern. Of course, overall reliability, reliability of the Bluetooth connection, battery life and overall product life are still in the “who knows” stage, and these are some of the things pointed out by the negative reviews. As always, I’ll amend this review if something changes. But hell, for the price, the technology blows me away. The sound quality blows me away. Even the build quality is acceptably solid from what I can initially tell.

This little device is great! It works very well for music with my in-ear monitors. I used it with the KZ S10 Pro and the cable that came with them. Sound quality is great, good highs and lows, latency is low, so no major delay in the sound while watching videos. Buttons are responsive, if a little squishy. Battery life is also pretty good. I was able to make it through my 8-10 hour work day without having to charge the unit. There are two cons to this device, though. 1: The microphone is awful. Do not try to use this for taking calls. The person on the other end either will not be able to hear what is being said, or, if they can hear that SOMETHING is being said, they most likely will not be able to understand. The few calls that I did take using the device were not good. I was told it souded like I was shouting to them from the other end of a very long hallway, or that I had them on speakerphone and was very far away from my phone. The device was clipped to my collar directly under my mouth. I feel that there should have been no issues hearing and understanding me at that small distance. 2: The clip on the back is cheap plastic and will not hold up to even regular use for very long. I was able to take this to work with it clipped to either the collar of my shirt or clipped to my pocket for about a month before the plastic bracket snapped. This isn't an expensive device, and I understand that cheap is cheap, but I expected a bit better out of the clip. Overall, it's a good value for the price, as LDAC headphone adapters are usually expensive items, and the sound is great. Just don't expect it to be able to take any sort of abuse.

I have a few IEMs: a Moondrop Chu2 and a Salnotes Zero. I enjoy them a lot but found that I was using them less frequently than my non-hifi Bluetooth headphones. BT is very convenient for listening while moving around. The BTR11 is a good compromise to enable BT with your existing collection of wired IEMs. It is much more compact than a mobile phone. It's nice to be able to set my phone down and carry this instead. I also connect it to other BT sources like laptops and enjoy not being tethered to them. I still prefer BT headphones for some use cases, like exercising in the gym where I don't want any cables at all to get in the way. The audio quality seems very good to me. My hearing is not very hifi, but I don't hear any obvious degradation between the BTR11 and my wired solution: an Apple USB-C to 3.5mm dongle. I also don't notice any latency when watching video with the audio synced through these. My IEMs seem to be driven well by the BTR11 and I get plenty of volume. The BTR11 is a plastic build and feels very light. It would feel more assuring if the housing were a bit heavier and and maybe made of metal. The buttons feel okay and have a nice clicky feeling. The clip is a nice addition, but I'm a little worried about relying on it after some others have mentioned it breaking. The battery lasts about 7-8 hours for me. Which is pretty good but more would be better, even if the device had to be made a little bigger and heavier. Another thing that would be nice is if it could be used as a wired DAC when the USB-C was plugged in. I hear that this is not possible because the BTR11 uses the BT chip as the DAC, but that is also part of the reason it can hit the ~$20 price point. One more nitpick is, when the battery is running low, the BTR11 lady makes an announcement and repeats it very frequently. This makes me anxious. I think the frequency should be reduced and/or the warning should be a more subtle audio cue. I saw some other options for portable BT DACs when I was shopping around, but they were a lot more expensive. This is a no-brainer for about $20 as long as reliability does not turn out to be an issue.

Great quality product. Nice and small, has a clip, and has a decent range for connections. The battery is alright, usually lasting about 6-8 hours of listening. It has 3 buttons and plays loud enough that usually it doesn't need to be maxed out.

Great little amp for the price. Clean, clear sound overall. Of course, you can find better, but this is very pleasant with my Phillips SHP9600. That headphone has a removable cord with 3.5mm plug, so all you need is an 8" patch cord and a rubber or velcro band for the clip, and you have great open wireless headphones with an easy upgrade path. While switching codecs in Android dev options, I can hear the improvement of LDAC. You can hear the difference between Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless. It's no ess chip, but still better than many bluetooth headphones. Be sure to set your LDAC dev options to 'Optimize for Quality'. A Samsung phone will allow you to make a shortcut to this setting using Search. Important because Android always sets LDAC to 'Adaptive' every time you connect, which can limit quality. It's an old bug they may never fix. If you're familiar with fiio, this is consistent with their usual commitment to great sound quality for the money, with a simplicity-done-right design. For the price, it earns 5 stars. In a dark room, I wish you could disable the blinking light. This still achieves my goal: quality wireless open-backed headphones. I like my pre-made wireless headphones, but nobody makes an open-backed wireless headphone, so this is still the best solution, especially if you collect and modify wired headphones.

Arrived more quickly than the shipping estimate. Sounds clean with no obvious issues. Paired immediately with both iPhone and Windows 11 PC and reconnects quickly when powered on. Strong signal: I've gone into the basement with my device on the first floor or two rooms over and have only had one brief reception fuzz-out so far (through two walls). Case is thin plastic, but that's expected for the price. The positive side of that is feather weight, and it probably helps reception vs. metal. Greatly pared down, cheaper alternative to the Qudelix 5k, which I can't afford right now, and fills the need well. No EQ, unlike the Qudelix, but I can parametric EQ from my PC with Equalizer APO. Feels kind of like walking around with an iPod or Rio used to, which is fun. Small enough to disappear in your pocket and leave plenty of room to avoid feeling weird with a coil of headphone wire in there too, unlike with a phone. Recommended! Edit: meant to mention also that battery life is excellent.

Update: Initially I gave it 4/5 but I've revised it to 2/5 because I am tired of having to reconnect it (which is a tedious process). Having owned this for a few months, I think the fatal flaw of this device is the way it is programmed: when disconnected it waits for ~1 min before it begins to look for a new device and goes into pairing mode. When this happens, thereafter it will not reconnect smoothly with my pc and I have to start over, forget device, trust, pair, run the bt-device command below... This is why I noticed in my review below, I didn't have problems so long as I turned the fiio off before turning my laptop off - but yeah, I don't always remember and I'm tired of it. As far as I know, this is not normal behavior for a bluetooth device and bad design on Fiio's part. Fiio if you're reading this, I don't think this is too hard to fix for a ver 2.0 of this product. I wouldn't mind a dedicated "connect" button for pairing too. Original review: This is a nice and inexpensive wireless receiver. Sound quality is good. Range is ok. Battery life is decent - and I like that I can plug it into charge while I am using it. I am using this with laptop with Linux Mint 22.1, realtek bluetooth 5.3. Initially it wouldn't connect to my computer, I had to do the following for it to work for me: 1) In your bluetooth manager (blueman-manager): search for it, pair with it, trust it. (maybe it works for you after this step, in which case you're done) 2) Install bluez-tools: "sudo apt-get install bluez-tools" 3) Use "bt-device -l" to find its mac address OR right click it in blueman and choose "info" to get it 4) Now type: "bt-device -c 00:00:00:00:00:00" (put your mac address instead of 00:00.....) 5) In my case, after step 4 it asked yes/no about a passkey, just type "y" (see photo) I have had to remove/forget the device a few times and repeat these steps to get it working again. Seems to me the issue is related to whether or not I shut the laptop off without turning off this receiver first. So long as I turn it off before turning the laptop off, it comes back no problem. While I know Linux's poor bluetooth handling is partly to blame, I have other bluetooth devices that never skip a beat in terms of connecting 100% of the time.

Ok I went budget end as first time buying one if these. I had low expected tbh - but can say I am very surprised at how brilliant it is! It's tiny, and clips on easily to clothes. Very easy to set up and use. Super simple. Sound quality is better than I expected - though I'm no audiphole. I use this for podcasts and youtube, talking not music. Recommend!

Très surpris par ce petit boitier à peine plus grand qu'une clef USB. La connexion est rapide et bien signalé dans les oreillette. Utiliser pour du multimédia ou de la musique, les basses sont bien équilibrées et un casque assez basique retrouve un rendu bien supérieur à ce qu'il donnait sur un smartphone avec jack. Le son est légèrement amplifié aussi, on a un bon gain qui n'est pas négligeable. Rechargeable en USB C, autonomie tiens largement la journée. A voir la durée de vie de la batterie. Le boitier est aussi équipé d'un micro et d'un pince, ce qui permet de l'utiliser en kit main libre ou en micro cravate. Il capte faiblement les bruits ambiants mais bien positionné la conversation est de bonne qualité, pas haché. Dernier bon point, on peut appairer deux appareils, téléphone + PC, c'est le combo gagnant pour le télétravail.

Super sound, great price!

Tenía unos auriculares con cable a los que les tengo mucho aprecio y que no quería dejar de usar. El problema es que cada vez más dispositivos, especialmente móviles y algunos equipos modernos, ya no traen entrada jack de 3,5 mm. Este receptor Bluetooth me pareció una solución excelente para ese caso. Uso principal Lo compré para poder seguir utilizando mis auriculares con cable, pero con más libertad de movimiento y sin depender directamente de que el dispositivo tenga entrada de auriculares. En ese sentido, cumple perfectamente: conectás los auriculares al receptor y el audio llega por Bluetooth desde el móvil, tablet u ordenador. Lo que más me gustó Para mí, lo mejor es que convierte unos auriculares clásicos con cable en una opción mucho más actual y práctica. En mi caso no era solo una cuestión técnica, sino también de poder seguir usando unos auriculares que valoro mucho y que no quería reemplazar simplemente porque los nuevos dispositivos ya no traen jack. Calidad de sonido y comodidad La calidad de sonido me pareció muy buena para el tamaño del aparato. Es pequeño, ligero y fácil de llevar, así que no molesta en el uso diario. Me parece especialmente útil para quienes tienen buenos auriculares con cable y quieren seguir aprovechándolos sin comprar unos inalámbricos nuevos. Para quién lo recomendaría Lo recomendaría a cualquiera que tenga auriculares con cable que le gusten y quiera darles una segunda vida. También me parece una buena opción si usás móviles, tablets u ordenadores sin jack de 3,5 mm y querés mantener la calidad o comodidad de tus auriculares actuales. Conclusión Me pareció una compra muy acertada. No es un simple accesorio: en mi caso resolvió un problema concreto y me permitió seguir usando unos auriculares a los que les tengo mucho cariño. Pequeño, práctico y muy útil. Cinco estrellas.

Nice little gadget. Very useful. Sound quality also good. 4.5k price shall be reasonable. 5k and Above not justified.