The Fiio X5 is a mid-level audiophile portable digital audio player. I just bought a Fiio E12 portable headphone amp and it's a fantastic product (I wrote about it in another thread). The X5 is Fiio's new player with extraordinary specs -- there's a link to the Fiio website at the bottom of this post. The X5 has been reviewed fairly extensively and it's an extraordinary little box -- performance that matches players that cost 3x as much.

The X5 will be released in the US next month on Amazon with a selling price of $350.

I've been watching the internet for sales of the X5 because I want to get one when it's available in the US to replace my iPod Classic. Today, I came across it selling on the Chinese (English language) website aliexpress.com. It had previously been offered for $492.88 USD. Today, however, it's offered at 97% off -- $14.79, plus $27.95 shipping to the US for a total of $42.74.

I don't know if this is a scam or not, but I decided the possibility of getting a $350 high-quality player for forty bucks was worth the gamble. Worse comes to worse, I'll just dispute the charge with my credit card company.

If you want to gamble as well, here's the link:

www.aliexpress.com link to Fiio X5

Here's the link to the specs for the X5:

http://www.fiio.com.cn/products/inde...00000055517771