Hello all; I've had good luck with Shure, Senn and Ety IEMs, but I am having difficulty getting a good seal with my new Fiio FH5. I think the short nozzle is causing a poor fit in my large ear canal. I plan to try different non Fiio tips, but am curious if the other Fiio IEMs like the FA of FH6...

Thanks for the comments. I picked up an M9 for $250CAD to play with. It was cheap enough to experiment with, tho I think I will ultimately find my iPhone SE/Q5 combo less frustrating over time. Happy New Year to all of you. I fear we may be in for an interesting decade...

Thanks for the great comments. Grain is an excellent analogy-I art directed photography back in the film era and get what you are saying. Have a high Rez, non grainy Christmas! I appreciate you taking the time to help.

Thanks kukkurovaca. That scale of diminishing returns would especially apply to a pair of 65-year-old ears that spent far too much time at Grateful Dead concerts in the 70s. :-) I do plan to buy some tracks and compare then to my rips. I just picked up an AK JR ($200CAD) to dabble with a DAP...

Hi all; After 50+ years fo collecting records (and later CDs), I'm running out of space, and considering buying future music in high-resolution format. I'm confused by formats and sample rates, and wonder if any of you can point me to a web site for beginners-high rez for dummies, I suppose...

Thanks noknok. My wife is from Friesland. Dag! :-)

Thanks for the quick reply. That makes sense and I had no idea that Android was on 10. Makes 7 sound ancient. Merci from Canada! :-). Have a good weekend.

Hi all; I'm not familiar with the Android operating system and am considering moving to a DAP from my ipod/Dragonfly. My question concerns the useable life of the OS. I want to stream Tidal, which I can still do on my ancient ipad mini2, but not on my ipod 5. Is something like the fiio M11...

Hi all; I've searched threads trying to figure out if I should be concerned that that the M11 runs an older version of Android. I know nothing of Android-I'm Mac based-but was interested in trying a dedicated DAP, and the M11 seems to have a great price/features ratio. I'm not concerned about...

Thanks starence. I did check the site (on my phone-no useable internet out here)-and missed that entirely.

Hello all; I've been looking at DACs, and noticed Monolith has their tube amp w/Dac on sale for under $200USD. What little I could find on this unit seems to point to design and quality issues, but I was curious if any of you have a recent unit. I'd mainly be using it as DAC into my MicroZOTL...

  Review of Neko Audio D100 Mk2   I recently had the pleasure of auditioning the Neko Audio D100 Mk2 DAC.   I’ve called myself an auditioner-not a reviewer. I feel ill equipped to review this DAC simply because it was light years over what I have listened to in the past. My current...

Hi all; My imod died (no fault of RWA-I screwed up replacing the battery). I used it with the headroom desktop portable amp. I'm not sure what the best route for a replacement would be. A new imod, or would I be better with an old PCDP and use the DAC in the amp? I have nothing to base...

I upgraded from a microstack to the DTP. Was it worth the extra money? It was to me, but its an individual judgement call. I wanted the best portable amp/DAC i could find for a very specific occasion. (Smoking cigars on my deck) I see you have 701s-the DTP drives them very nicely. While...

I feel your pain. I ordered my reference when the CAD dollar was at par with the USD. Now its less than 80 cents.