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    Shure SRH1540 Review

    You should also try tweaking your software player. Try Playpcmwin.
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    What's the best USB audio cable for the money?

    Did you try tweaking the cable to match your system. Phasure Lush and Ifi Gemini are the only two cables I know that are configurable to different systems.
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    What's the best USB audio cable for the money?

    What does tin plating do for power? Silver playing for data makes sense since with high frequencies, skin effect pushes the charges to the edges of the conductor. What’s the special electrical property of tin? Does it do well with large input currents? Or is it merely cost saving?
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    Sennheiser HD820

    I was surprised how awesome hd800 sound out of apogee groove (I prefer the groove over quite a few desktop amps for the hd800. It handles headphones not requiring lot of current very well). Maybe you could give it a consideration too. Or if you’re looking for something modern, maybe the questyle...
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    Introducing the Questyle M15 & the brand new Questyle Shop!

    Looking forward to your new product. Hopefully it can be more powerful if it’s battery powered as it would no longer rely on usb power supply.
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    Introducing the Questyle M15 & the brand new Questyle Shop!

    Many portable devices exist (I am looking at ifi as an option due to Mqa support and their custom filter) but I would be more inclined to questyle because the design/filter choices are better aligned with my preferences (except for being not battery powered)
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    Introducing the Questyle M15 & the brand new Questyle Shop!

    Would questyle be interested to make a battery powered m15 with maybe more output power?
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    Please help me identify a USB DAC dongle that is NOS and tube sounding

    You mean like ifi idsd Diablo? Or bakoon hpa01? The Diablo can do NOS
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    Please help me identify a USB DAC dongle that is NOS and tube sounding

    Is cayin ru6 something that might interest you? Also, the choice of digital filter can change the output noticeably. On akm dacs I like the super slow filters, if you have dacs that allow filter swapping you can try changing those.
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    Which tiny, powered speakers?

    If you’re interested in Bluetooth, Logitech x50 and x100 are very good. (Also have a coax in). I actually found expensive Bluetooth speakers to sound bad (just sound loud and use quite aggressive dsp). Apparently Sony also has a decent budget portable speaker but forgot the name (sbs or...
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    best sounding player win10 audio (free)

    Wtfplay is great! Xxhighend is even better (I love the custom upsampler). Yet to try pure asio player. Is it available for free?
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    Sennheiser HD820

    It can even be about measurement settings inconsistencies. Headphone is not the same as a resistor and real world systems are not linear time invariant.
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    What's the best USB audio cable for the money?

    Glad you found a budget option that worked well for you! I bought two usb cables that together costed close to half the price of my dac (dac is a budget one 😅).
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    Introducing the Questyle M15 & the brand new Questyle Shop!

    The numbers don't show anything audibly concerning to be honest. And resistors are not a 1:1 replacement of headphone for analysis purposes. Resistors have no mechanical load or movement, while a headphone does. While I am yet to buy a questyle m15, I do have an apogee groove, which uses current...
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