Probably confuse it a little bit with the Aune S9C Pro amp/dac, which is an excellent product for the price also if you're looking for a all-in-one solution and don't want separates.

Following up on my previous comment, I was surprise how well the Angel handle and drove my LCD-X, I know it's not the most demanding planar on the market, but man it does feels really close to an actual desktop system.

I'm very happy with my S17, that's why I have a really hard time deciding if I even want to upgrade, the only reason I would do so is for the ModHouse Tungsten and mostly out of fear of the S17 not having enough juice to power them to my satisfaction, but that's literally my only concern with...

Well I have an entry/enthusiast level DAC for that matter, you have significantly better DACs(and expensive) than what I have currently, in theory the difference between your two DACs is not going to be much, maybe a slightly different sound presentation. Btw are you doing any upsampling on...

I guess that Mentor would pull ahead with more demanding headphones, specially hard to drive planars like the Tungsten, Susvara, 1266, etc., in any head to head comparison because of the extra power that Mentor has, but in a sense, given the market segment that the S17 is placed, it's perfectly...

Thanks for the recommendation will listen to it once I get back home. This song usually gives me good soundstage but it's pretty much forced because it's kind of a spatial audio test track of sorts, with regular music, I kind of get it sometimes but not reliably so and it's just some...

Yep, your impressions of the Cyan 2 convince me that this is going to be my next DAC.

Hi, I have a technical question regarding the Earmen Angel that I didn't see pop up in the entire thread, I'm aware it's going to be very niche but if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, feel free to pitch in. Recently I got to try out the Angel and I downloaded the driver for it to use it...

It's annoying tho, and it's not present on both my Clears and Elegias, it doesn't affect anything soundwise, but it does speak to QC issues with Focal.

we should open a thread here on head-fi that's called the mediocre audiophiles, lol!!!!!!, specially for audiophiles like myself that are soundstage impaired. I sometimes listen intently to the music, specially when I'm evaluating new gear, but sometimes I'm listening to music and perusing...

That's why you always have a bottle of whiskey on reserve when the neighbor comes to complain about the loud sound, you invite him in for a glass and you win him over, he might even start pestering you with PMs to turn up the volume of your speakers so he has an excuse to come over for another...

Well those are good news then, you have uplifted my bad mood my friend. I'm not in a rush to get this repair ASAP, I would prefer that they take their time on my headphone and do a good work on it because apart from the driver failure, the left cup also had a weird creaking sound when I was...

I have relatively easy access to the HD800S, but it's not mine, but I can always take it out on loan from my father and I loan him my headphones in return, it's really cool to have a dad that shares your same enthusiasm for this hobby, I wish I could take on loan his two channel system tho but...

Bad news people, a few weeks ago the left driver on my radiance gave up the ghost, fortunately headphones.com came through and my headphone it's on its way to canada for RMA, my only concern is that given that this headphone is not currently in production and Focal doesn't even have replacement...

I would tend to agree, specially given our tendencies, both personal and as a group to FOMO when a new, very hyped product comes to market, that's why I'm not so concern at the moment with upgrading my amp, it fills and drives all of my headphones really well and it sounds really good to me, tho...