• The FiiO M27 launches worldwide in Fall 2025, with pricing TBC
• Huge battery for portable playback and high power output at home
• aptX Lossless, Auracast and Bluetooth LE Audio

FiiO has announced a new flagship portable player, the FiiO M27. It’s a high-powered, high-performance hi-res audio player with a very impressive specification.

The M27 is powered by a Qualcomm QCS6490 chipset, which uses the Snapdragon 770G architecture and features eight Kryo 670 cores, an Adreno 642L GPU and supports both LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.

It has 8GB of RAM and twin microSD slots, each of which supports up to 2TB of storage. On-board storage is 256GB, and the OS is Android 13.

The player is one of the first portables to use the Qualcomm QCC5181 chipset, which enables it to support aptX Lossless as well as Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast. FiiO says that “Audiophiles can now enjoy reference-grade sound quality not only through wired connections but also wirelessly with a fidelity previously unimaginable in Bluetooth playback.”

FiiO M27: key features and specifications

Design-wise, the M27 looks similar to previous flagships such as the FiiO M23, but it’s the first FiiO portable to use a titanium alloy chassis. The rear is made from “glass fiber”.

The M27 is a dual-DAC design with twin ESS ES9039SPRO DACs and up to 5,000mW + 5,000mW of output power in Ultra Gain mode. There are 6.35mm, 4.4mm and 3.5mm headphone outputs, along with line-level and digital connections. And for going out and about, the M27 has a huge 9,200mAh battery.

The M27 also has FiiO’s DAPS, which is short for Digital Audio Purification System and which integrates a high-capacity FPGA and dual RIVER femtosecond crystal oscillators that are claimed to reduce jitter and ensure timing accuracy.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet but the FiiO M27 will launch globally within the next few months, to challenge high-end players from the likes of Astell & Kern in our list of the best hi-res music players. We’ll find out if the performance matches the elaborate spec list soon in our full review, as soon as we can get our hands on one.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than twenty books. Her latest, a love letter to music titled Small Town Joy, is on sale now. She is the singer in spectacularly obscure Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind.