All the below illustrating pictures are for reference only. M6 Complete User Manual Foreword: Thank you for purchasing FiiO’s high resolution lossless music player M6. To let you better utilize the M6 to enjoy high-quality music, we have prepared this complete user manual. We hope this manual will help you get to know the M6 and unleash its full potential.
Contents ●Introduction···························································································································································· 3 1. Buttons and ports introduced ···························································································································· 4 2.
●Introduction The M6 is a high fidelity, high resolution digital audio player, using Samsung 14nm Exynos 7270, Dual AK4490EN DACs, 2GB native memory, and support external Micro SD Card storage (512GB) , 480* 800 LG IPS screen, supporting multi-touch. TheType C interface supports charging, file transfer, USB Audio output; Bluetooth 4.2 supports SBC/ aptX/ aptX-HD/ LDAC/HWA.
2. Buttons and ports explained 1) Touchscreen (16 million colors, 480x800 pixels): Displays the user interface and other information; for operating the unit via screen touches and/or in conjunction with buttons on the unit; 2) Power / Lock: While M6 is powered off, hold for 2s to turn on; while powered on, hold to display power off / reboot menu; press briefly while powered on to turn screen on / off; Press and hold for 10 seconds to reboot.
●Main menu and Drop-down menu interface: 5
●Settings interface: 1.
2. Bluetooth function M6 supports virtually all Bluetooth formats including the high-resolution ones for your ultimate listening pleasure, including: aptX-HD(also backwards compatible with aptX), LDAC and HWA. M6 can also be a Bluetooth transmitter or a Bluetooth receiver. Bluetooth transmitter To use the M6 with new Bluetooth devices (e.g.
Note: 1. If you already connect with one Bluetooth device, it is necessary to disconnect the Bluetooth connection in order to switch the Bluetooth audio code successfully before reconnecting with the Bluetooth device. (The switching between the three modes of LDAC can work in real time.) 2. When you turn on the Bluetooth, M6 will automatically connect to the latest available device.
Disconnect 3.
Select output Switch the output between PO(Headphone output) / LO(Line out); Digital filter mode To set the filter modes: Fast Roll-Off Filter, Slow Roll-Off Filter, Minimum Phase; 10
Wireless playback quality When the Bluetooth receiver supports multiple Bluetooth audio codecs such as BTR3), you can select which you want to use. Balance Set the Balance between the left and right channels. From being biased leftmost (L10) through centre (0) to rightmost (R10), there are 21 settings available.
In-line remote Response to in-line remotes on connected headsets may be enabled or disabled by your choice. USB DAC Check “USB DAC” and connect the M6 with computer via USB cable. (If you’re using Windows system, please install the driver at https://www.fiio.com/Driver_Download; MAC system doesn’t need to install the DAC driver.
AirPlay The toturial about AirPlay function 13
4. Key-lock Settings You can choose the buttons/knob you want to be available when the screen is off. 5. General General includes About device, Power-off timers, Apps, Brightness level, Wallpaper, Sleep, Date& time, Language &Input, Screen lock. Here are a few common function’s introductions.
About device You can view Device name, Build number, etc. Power-off Timer Power-off timer includes two categories, namely “Sleep” and “Idle power off”: Sleep: once the pre-set power-off time is expired, M6 will power off automatically, no matter whether it is playing or not. The power-off time can be set to any value between 0 to 120 minutes. By default the sleep power off is turned off, and it will restore to the default settings once the power-off time is expired.
Idle power off: once the pre-set power-off time is expired and no operation is performed during the time period, M6 will power off automatically. The timer can be set to any value between 0 to 50 minutes. By default the sleep power off is turned off, and it will restore to the default settings once the power-off time is expired. Apps M6 app can be disabled or forced to stop. The memory and RAM can also be checked Brightness level The brightness can be adjusted according to the environment.
Sleep Specify after how much time of inactivity (no button presses, screen touches or playing) M6 will enter sleep mode. In Sleep mode, M6 would have low power consumption. To short press the Power button can wake up M6 from Sleep mode. Language setting 1. “Settings”-“General”- “Language & input”, and “Languages” in sequence, which will bring you to the “Language preference setting” interface. 2. Press “Add a language” 3. Select a language 4.
after this operation.
Factory data reset “Factory data reset” will clean all the user data in memory and restore to the original default settings. Please backup important data in advance. ●Firmware Update You can select OTA updates or choose Local updates. OTA updates requires a stable WiFi network, and once you press the “check for updates” button, M6 will automatically look for updates online.
you the new version, and then the update can be performed accordingly. For local package update, the following steps need to be followed: 1. Download the firmware from FiiO official website, such as “M6-ota-1.0.1.zip” ,and copy this firmware file to the root directory of your micro SD. Note that the file should not be unzipped, and you are recommended not to modify the file name. 2.
Attention 1. Please ensure the battery power is more than 30%, or the device is connected to a power supply. 2. Please ensure the firmware file is selected. 3. Please do not perform any operation on M6 while updating, and if the update is not successful, you can hold POWER and PLAY buttons simultaneously for about 10 seconds to reboot the device. ●Status bar The status bar on top of the screen can indicate the working status.
●FiiO Music The M6 comes with the FiiO Music app, a music playing application that has been highly customized to make full use of the audio hardware of the M6 and tailored to the usage needs of advanced music enthusiasts. On first launch of FiiO Music, an illustration of the guide to the app will appear. Below is the introduction of FiiO Music app. 1. APP homepage On launching the FiiO Music app, the following homepage will appear.
Settings: tap the icon to go to app settings options; Return to desktop: tap the icon to return to main screen; Playing page: tap the icon to jump to playing page; Recently played: Lists your recently played songs according to the time it is played; Most played: Lists your most popular songs according to playback frequency; Recently added: Lists the tracks that are recently added to the library.
Settings Back the Main menu inferface Tap the icon to jump to playing page 2. Quickly locate all music When the list is ordered by alphabet (tap the blue circle to the lower right and select the “A>Z” option), you can slide your finger over the alphabet list to the right of the screen and quickly jump to the part of the list that starts with the selected letter. 3.
4. Function menu Tap the shortcuts icon of function menu, the following functions can be performed. Selected sort order: sort by added time, sort by first letter, sort by filename. Bulk management: batched playback, batched adds to my favorite, batched add to playlist, batched delete, exit batch operation 5.
Play mod EQe Play/Paus Previous track Moretofuctions Add Favorites Add to palylist Next track e 6. Tap buttons The tap buttons from top to bottom on the playing screen: 1) Return: return to Original path 2) Search: Tap to show a full screen search pane for all songs on the M6. Searching for track title, album name and artist name are supported.
Switch displaying information: Click on the middle of the album cover to switch between displaying the album cover, lyrics, ID3 info.
8. EQ FiiO Music has built-in a graphic equalizer. One may choose between the given genre presets directly, or adjust the ten frequency bands from 20 to 20kHz independently from -6 to +6 dB, thus satisfying your personalized listening needs. Reset EQ 1) Choose preset EQ: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to show the full list of EQ presets, tap icon to switch the equalizer. 2) Customize EQ: to customize an EQ setting as below: a.