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- Fiio has a rep for making good value products for people who care about sound, so I imagined it would be the winner. However, the sound quality is much closer than I had expected on these two discrete options - perfectly serviceable, some noise floor / hiss on both in certain situations / with certain apps, but usually tolerable or absent. In other words, the Fiio is a worse sonic performer than I expected and the Tao is a better one, and it's basically a wash. I can't tell any real difference in detail retrieval, but the Tao does actually seem able to push more milliwatts if you like it loud. (Disclaimer: I have made no measurements, but even though I don't usually blast things I have actually hit situations where the Fiio won't go quite as loud as I need it. Not so with the Tao.)
- Both are three-button units, so you'd think the interface would be pretty similar in use. However, the Tao differentiates its power button as a big fat button on the top face. This makes "blind" control in your pocket way easier. In fact, it's often hard to tell which is the power/play button on the Fiio and which is the volume rocker without running your finger alongside it a bunch of times. For that matter, it's even hard sometimes to tell whether you're about to hit volume up or down (the volume rocker isn't all that much longer than the power/play button). The button layout on the Tao is on two faces of the unit with unmissably different button sizes and all buttons are asymmetrically placed on the unit, so what you're about to press is much more obvious to the touch.
- If you don't have your phones on to hear the "I'm powering down" signal, the Fiio is actually pretty hard to switch off blind. It seems to have a longer and almost arbitrarily variable delay between power-off hold and actually powering off. There have been many times when I attempted to turn off the Fiio and presumed myself successful, only to come back an hour later and see it still stupidly blinking away. I never have this issue with the Tao - I just hit the button and briefly hold it like you'd expect to, and it's gone down, every time.
- And speaking of powering down sensibly, here's a big problem with the Fiio: The Tao is smart enough to power itself down automatically after 20 or so minutes of no signal. The Fiio will happily stay on for hours and hours and/or until it has completely discharged itself. If you want to use this thing to push headphones at bedtime / as a sleep timer, you definitely do not want the Fiio.
- Range is better on the Tao.
- Battery life is better on the Tao (not that the Fiio has a bad battery life by any means).
- Pairing, especially at the outset of ownership, is more foolproof and less fussy on the Tao. I had a few devices where the Fiio just did not. want. to. connect. It eventually "learned better" after about ten attempts, but the Tao had no such problems with any of them.
The Fiio is fine overall, and if you really need the clip, as I originally thought I did, or don't want to deal with maintaining a separate micro-B connector for charging in 2020+, it's a "clear winner" over the Tao on that alone. But even there I've actually found I don't miss the clip nearly as much as I thought I would when I have the Tao and I'm walking around. It pockets nicely and stays put. If you're wanting to use it for exercise then... I don't know, hot-glue something to it. A safety pin is going to be more secure than the plastic clip anyway. And I've had plenty of small devices with integrated spring clips - the clip always breaks, someday. (The Fiio's is still holding up 3 months in.)
Bottom line, I keep one unit (the Tao, usually) at my office desk and one (the Fiio, usually) on my bedside table right now. But even though I don't need to, really, I'm probably going to buy a second Tao and retire the Fiio. To my surprise, the Tao is just a lot better in practical use than the uBTR and less of a quirky, why-won't-this-dang-thing-turn-off pain to deal with. Sorry, Fiio.

Edit: FiiO suggests spending more money on their upgraded version of this, stating that it does not pick up when near the body. Where are you supposed to keep this thing but near your body?
Original Review (after 2 days owning and using):
Sometimes works. It cuts out at a range anywhere between 1/2 meter to 6 meters. The audio quality when it actually works seems to be alright - yet when it cuts out (regularly) it's scratchy and frustrating.
Note that this happens when fully charged as well - not just on low battery.
I got this to work with a set of over-ear headphones I love but I keep trying to walk away with when standing up from my workstation. Kind of useless if I have to have it out of my pocket and sitting next to my device just to get it to work.

After four months of using it pretty much all day everyday, it died without warning. I emailed the email address on the warranty info but no one replied. I tried messaging the seller but Amazon wouldn’t let me. Finally I found Fiio on Facebook and messaged them and they replied within a couple days. They gave me a California address to ship it to for repairs (I’m in the US). I had to pay shipping but it was only about $3. They paid return shipping. I had a working device back two weeks after I mailed the broken one. It is making weird clicking noises occasionally but otherwise working fine. I’m very happy to have it back.
(Note: I’ve changed this review a few times as my experience has progressed.)

The main reason I'd highly recommend this is the cheap Chinese adaptors - at least the one I bought - will actually cut out the audio for ~2 seconds whenever you skip or reverse a track. It's not a delay, you actually miss 2 seconds of the song/podcast/whatever you're listening to. After a few months, that drove me insane.
By comparison, the FiiO adapter has no weird pauses, no weird clicks, no sound issues whatsoever. It charges quickly via USB-C and it shows its current battery status in my iPhone widget screen. Highly recommended overall.

I've had other devices that do the same thing. But the others I've had break the connection with the TV when you plug it in to charge it, or if you disconnect your headset for any reason. This one remains connected unless you specifically disconnect it or the battery goes flat.
I'm very happy with this device for what I use it for.

When I searched for BT receivers, it seems most of them are designed to output a signal for connection to a stereo system. Consequently, I suspected that if I plugged a set of headphones directly into one of those receivers, the sound would be too weak. A few said they could be used with ear buds, but ear buds do not need as much power as headphones. So I was skeptical to place an order until I found this unit.
Whether this unit is the best or not, I do not know. But I do know it works well with my Koss and Sennheiser headphones. Thus, I am satisfied with my purchase.

I never used one of these Bluetooth Wireless Receivers before so I contacted Amazon product support just in case I missed something. Amazon product support quickly determined that it was indeed dead. I returned it and did not buy another one of these, as it looks like there's no quality control at FiiO







It occasionally needs to be restarted when the connection is poor.
Other than that, it's everything I would hope for at a price that allows me to not worry about breaking or losing it.





For $22 it even feels/is built nicely. A lot nicer than I expected.
Don’t bother with the cheapo $10 charge/aux combos to listen and charge your phone. Just get this.


