1, We will rename our products line up in the future, and the DAC/AMP will be called as Q series. and the ALPEN II (E17K) will be renamed as Q3 ( My wife drives an Audi Q3, :L3000:).

2, There will be a flagship DAC/AMP called Q5 .

3, Our strategy is , once we find the price position is correct, we will keep the same price level but try to improve the design and features in the next generation .

4, About the DAC/AMP + Dock Amp like E17+E09K, to be honest, it is a stupid idea because the feedback is not reasonable. to me, it will be better to spend the time and resource in other projects .

    but as you can see, it is good for our user when they try to pair with some big cans at home.

5, You guys can tell me what you need in our new DAC/AMP Q5, so far we have not decided anything about it. but it is not a slim design and not a cheap one , the  benchmarking of Q5 is SONY PHA-3.

   so we have enough space and  budget for all the features and the best performance you needs.

6, for E17K, we are not going to change the design, please understand us cause there will have less and less portable device which supports optical output and the cable is a problem too.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/747491/fiio-e17k-alpen-2-announced-23-12-2014/15#post_11161281