FiiO FX17 vs Simgot EW300

FiiO FX17

Approved coverage paints the FX17 as FiiO’s statement tribrid: highly revealing, spacious, and technically ambitious, but still tuned to keep its EST-heavy top end musical rather than sterile. Headfonics praises its transparency, layering, and expansive, tightly focused staging, while broader Headphonesty coverage on the driver-count arms race treats the FX17 as proof that complexity only works when execution stays coherent. Early Reddit discussion echoes the same talking points around grand stage, natural sound, and airy treble. The tradeoff is clear too: it is expensive, physically substantial, and aimed at listeners who want flagship detail and scale more than forgiving warmth.

Simgot EW300

The Simgot EW300 is a roughly $70 tribrid: a 10mm ceramic composite dynamic driver, a 6mm planar and a piezoelectric ceramic tweeter inside a CNC machined metal shell, with two swappable nozzles (silver steel with a red O-ring, gold copper with a purple one). Reviewers agree on three things. Sub-bass reaches deep with real rumble and stays out of the midrange, the metal shell is light and comfortable and needs no amplifier at 28 ohms, and detail retrieval, separation and imaging land above what the price normally buys, which is why several reviewers name it a gaming pick. Almost everything above 1 kHz is contested. One camp hears a warm, slightly dark set whose treble lacks brilliance. Another hears a V-shaped, upper treble boosted set that turns sibilant or fatiguing on female vocals. The midrange splits the same way, lush and full against scooped, thin and clinical, and the nozzles are called anything from subtler than a tip swap to a drastic change. Two reviewers measured channel imbalance on their own units, one of them alongside a visibly misaligned internal component.