http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-6-plus.htm#measurements   Seems the performance is quite remarkable, basically eleminating any need for a portable DAP.   For comparison, Benchmark DAC1 HDR measurements:   http://www.kenrockwell.com/audio/benchmark/dac1-hdr.htm#measurements

Or maybe one of these instead:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

  There is still a long way to tP :)  (Planck time)   Give me one of these (with more bits) :)   http://www.researchgate.net/publication/257672452_Implementation_of_Six_Bit_ADC_and_DAC_Using_Quantum_Dot_Gate_Non-Volatile_Memory   Quantum Dots are small, must be good for portable u fink...

O.O   http://www.audiocominternational.com/latest-news/2014/01/new-37-femtosecond-jitter-clock-for-sabre-es9018-dac/

So, um, anyone here tried the MSB Diamond DAC IV Plus with 77 Femtosecond Galaxy Clock? :)   http://www.msbtech.com/products/dac4diamond.php?Page=dac4home

I ended up picking up Arcam rDAC-kw on ebay with wireless dongle. Sounds great and wireless sounds lossless to me as advertised. No trouble connecting.   Dual wm8741 dacs, dCS anti-jitter tech. Original price was $700 i think, now discontinued.

  I suggest one of these bendable cable tie brands:   "Gear Tie" (a bit more rigid) http://www.niteize.com/product/Gear-Tie-3.asp   or "Flexi Ties" (padded, soft) http://www.amazon.com/UT-Wire-Reusable-Organize-Yellow-6-Piece/dp/B003P9W0RE

Loving this track on my TH-900 :)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D70nk6Datg

Btw just for the record, TI TPA6120A2 is not an opamp chip, it's an actual single chip end-stage amplifier that is intended to be connected directly to headphones (Stereo Hi−Fi Headphone Driver according to TI diagram). The card uses 4 more fairly high end opamps for pre-amplification.

>> That is, unless he is specifically determined to play the T1 game, rather than enjoy music.    I want to like the T1, i love the design and how comfortable they are. It's a beautiful piece of audio equipment. So I actually want to make it work and sound better than the TH-900 :) They are...

>>if you cannot afford a proper amp   So you are saying my amp is not great but if you look at for instance   http://www.wooaudio.com/products/wa22.html   Signal/Noise: 92 dB THD: <= 0.3%   While ZXR amp's THD is 2000x lower (!) and S/N is 120db (28db higher which is enormous), so I...

  Hmm, thanks for the reply. Perhaps i should give it a shot with a stronger amp. I don't understand why it should matter at lower volumes though?

ZXR has a specific setting for 600ohm headphones and is using TPA6120 amp rated at 80mW into 600 ohms at 0.00014% THD+N (!!!) and 120db S/N:   http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tpa6120a2.pdf   Also note SMPTE of 0.000095% (!)   So i think its more likely the headphones since the technical...

I guess they don't sound horrible but they clearly can't resolve nearly as much detail as the TH900. So for instance I'm listening to M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, track 2 (Unrecorded) at around 3:00 there's a lot of intricately layered high frequency synth that T1 just doesn't seem...

Just got mine, very disappointed :( As much as i wated to like these (great design, very comfortable), the sound is super mushy and nowhere near as clear as in TH-900 or even AKG 3003i. They do sound better than my HD595 lol Could it have to do with me using SoundBlaster ZXR for amplification...

  Opportunity cost. You can have something that's just as good (thankfully the market has an abundance of choices) and pay close to 0 cents a day for depreciation instead of 55.

I don't see this as a rational argument. Because you want to keep something you have to purchase an asset that drops like a rock instead of holding off and waiting a year or two to see what it's true value is closer to and buying the same item at a fraction of a price with reduced depreciation...

  Then sometime down the road if you are unhappy or found something better you simply trade for what you like more. Without financial loss.   Basically all i'm saying is that it's the buyer's responsibility to act as an efficient participant in the marketplace and depreciation is a frequently...

  I meant minimizing depreciation if appreciation is not possible. In particular this probably means buying used or heavily discounted and at least a few years after release date so that you had the opportunity to watch the price and make sure it at least somewhat stabilized. Surely you don't...

I think 2 most important criteria are: 1) You love the sound 2) The headphones will hold value or appreciate over time   Overrated or not is sort of irrelevant to me as long as they hold value or appreciate. Gold has no intrinsic value but people believe in it :)

Now it sounds like i'm advocating what potentially HK did for this phone. Maybe they did exactly this, took a fixed source and fixed transducer and created a piece of software doing processing that matches them up the best....

  Haha, yeah. I see what you are saying, there's individual perception and the same exact sound waves will sound different to different people, like some people are intolerant to bright high frequencies etc. Which maybe had to do with their childhood development. etc etc   But then maybe the...

  There is so much subjective hand waving and snake oil in this field i'd personally like to see more universally measurable objective metrics about SQ :( So it can become a commodity, i can buy a pair of perfect $20 headphones and call it a day :)

Sounds like it's all software + headphones, they are not mentioning any hardware improvements. So basically the same phone rebadged?