Wow, thanks man, the first part did indeed resurrect the player <3

My R3 II died out of a sudden yesterday. It does not power up and when connected to charger a white LED is flashing (interestingly depending on the power brick it blinks faster or slower) , but it is not getting charged at all even left for whole night. @HiByMusic is there any button...

Ok, it was not me who brought brain and indirectly cognitive science into this discussion. But fair enough

Lol I assume you did not spend 10+ years with IEM before burn in, as you do to encode (I would even say hard engrave) the pitch of the voice of members of your family in your neurons :) I would not get too confident in our brain sound memory, your auditory sense is not just a simple machine...

From what I have seen Tempotec normally states combined power of left and right channel, and other manufacturers uses a power per channel in their specs. Some may argue it is not technically a lie, but for me it is very shady practice on their side at least.

Does it have QDC female connector?

Just because something is hard does not mean it is not impossible ;) The dynamic drivers themselves are very simple builds though and are rarely expensive to buy (especially as compared to micromachines that EST/BA drivers are). But the time and trials it takes to fine tune/iterate through the...

Think about all high end headphones - those are basically either single Planar driver or Single dynamic driver and they can sound absolutely lifelike. In IEMs there is plenty of technical limitations to the way that single DD can be tuned though (as compared to full-size transducers), which you...

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/s/rejVqp1rfR - not a separate case of Dark Saber shell breaking on cable swap... @Apos Audio - is this official approach towards claimd handling on this item? @MOONDROP - shouldn't Dark Saber cable be considered as fixed?

Is there everything intact with this set?

Unfortunately the R3 II is full of bugs (playback view does not update sometimes when FWD/REV physical button is pressed with screen off, sometimes it forgets the playlist it was playing even throughout the album and many many more). Nothing deal breaking, but I really wish @HiByMusic would...

In mine it is also loose even as compared to something from it's price range and tier - Shanling M0 Pro, which also has push button knob. Actually this M0 knob is one of the nicest I recall in portable audio. But it is not deal breaker in R3 II either, so just a side note. Further notes after...

I received my R3 II yesterday. Some short very quick impressions As compared to R3 Saber it is slightly thicker and larger in all dimensions. Still very handy. Build quality is decent, however there is a bit cheap feeling to operation of the knob. The knob is the weakest point of the device in...

I get it that there are people who do not care about that or who like this kind of cables as they do not tangle at least, so it is good it works for you :) But I am quite comfort-wh*** on cables and this one on Vita was one of the worst I have used to be fair because it was completely not...

Just my 2 cents SIE Vita cable - it is very beautiful and extremely well made piece of audio gear, but strangely terrible from the usability perspective - very stiff and hardware is too heavy to be practical.