HF5s are good cans. Very even frequency response, perhaps a touch dry and a little rolled off at the ends. Might also consider the SE315s, though I don't think they're necessarily enough better to warrant 2x the price.
Selling my trusty iBasso D3 portable USB DAC/amp. WM8740-based - DAC portion is USB-powered, while the amp portion is powered by 5 AAAs and last well over 100 hours per charge on NiMH batteries (!). Great sound and reliable as the...
These SE535s are fantastic. However, they seem to require careful system matching, and react to sources rather differently than my old Etys did.
Straight out of my iPhone 4, the tonal balance is ever so slightly warm, with a slight...
I'm picking up my new SE535s tomorrow, which replace a well-loved set of ER4ps and an equally well-loved and unfortunately lost set of HF2s. I wouldn't have gone the Shure route, except that I managed to get a factory hookup on them at...
I have an Oritek modded Zhaolu (version 4.1, I believe). Does anyone with experience with the OMZ DACs know whether either the NFB-2 or NFB-3 would be an upgrade, or at least comparable?
The more I listen to this combo, the more I realize that the boys (and gals!) at Ety really knew what they were doing when they designed the HF series IEMs. It very much seems like they voiced and impedance-matched them with the amp...
Apparently the 4 uses some new Cirrus Logic integrated codec/amp I'm not familiar with - the same one as they use in the iPad. I think it's a newer version of the one in the 3GS. By contrast, the 3G uses a Wolfson device....
