this is a wonderful headphone; i run it on a resonessence concero hp and the detail it resolves is unbelievable. for some context, i really love bass and treble; i find the hd800 needs a treble boost and the bass falloff requires that i absolutely crank the bass on them; i add 6.5db to the bass below 80hz on the hd800. the dharma needs only a little bass enhancement; so i only add 2db below 100hz. i also gain up the treble above 2khz - i start at midrange and amplify all the way up, effectively just attenuating the lower-mids.   to address the...

i've had this dac for a while and it was a major upgrade from the internal dac on my laptop.   the imaging is much better, the bass is much more well defined, the trebles don't tear, and the mids don't cloud out the entire rest of the dynamic range.   while there is hiss on my sr-535 iems, it isn't intolerable - it is mostly only audible when the source volume dips particularly low.   at the lowest volume setting (zero) the audio is barely a whisper in the 535's, but kick it up one step and it is much, much louder. there isn't really any...