FiiO FT1

Has FiiO made a rare slip-up with these wired headphones?

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£139 fiio.​com

If there's one thing we've all come to rely on FiiO for, it's value for money. And on paper FT1 (the company's first closed-back over-ear headphones) look to be more of the same.

'On paper' is one thing, and 'on the ear' is quite another. While we've been mighty impressed by many of FiiO's recent headphones, the FT1s are a rare miss for FiiO. The features they do have are quite impressive, though. For instance, they have a pair of 60mm full-range drivers that are good (says FiiO) for a frequency response of 10Hz-40kHz.

They're made predominantly from wood fibre, each is equipped with a 25mm voice coil and W-shaped suspension bracket, and they sit behind a conical baffle plate that is designed to reduce standing waves and to allow the driver to be parallel to the wearer's ear.