I am using a Mac to a DDC with a Schiit usb cable. Mac with Apple Music is pretty solid and sounds pretty smooth. I use tidal as well along with a lot of music in the network drive. I also have a Eversolo going to another DAC that has a good clock and it is pretty clean too. never tried...

This to me is one of the prettiest works of art. I need to start saving up for this.

If someone would do the science behind the culture. Like Beats are awful, even the new ones but when we are told by our peers they are great we assume we are listening to greatness and believe we are indeed the bomb so to speak-all while the company making the awful headphones know they are...

Thank you.

Surpra Excalibur might be a go in the next few weeks—the audio quest one too. On sort of the same subject—i2s hdmi. Shorter the better I am told. Any good ones out there that are short? I have a AQ 1 meter carbon which I ended up using off of the TV and currently use a SHANLING L8 but it is...

At the moment I am using Eversolo A6 ME—usb to Denafrips Iris 12th — i2s to Ares 12-1 — balanced to Musician — balanced to either sen 660s2 or Hifiman Ayra Organic I originally got a Schiit usb A to B but wanted a shorter cable so I got a Wireworld Starlight 8 usb 2.0 When I use the Schiit USB...

For me personally Sennheiser is the best manufacturer. Always will be. My favorite is the 660s2 because I like low and with a good class a we get good low. To me it seems as-if they are blending normal headphone users in with hobbyist and when you see their marketing pictures for the new one...

Nice. The balanced option is good. Please take this the correct way (humor) — calling me a conspiracy theorist on cable entry is awesome. I love it. So officially Sen doesn’t consider cable entry as a debatable thing so that leads to the designer has full decision making-nice.

What I consider is how many meetings for the single ended entry? Why are so many large companies making such bad decisions these days? I will bet that the minority wanted the single entry on this headphone and the majority caved once again to the minority who never really know what people want...

I am using this set up now. Everstream a6 usb (schiit usb) to danafrips iris then i2s (audioquest carbon 1 meter) to denafrips area 12-1 as well as AQ carbon coaxial to schiit mb2 From schiit mb2 goes to Nitsch maximus From 12-1 it goes to Musical Andromeda/balanced Name brand cables but...

Good points. The swaptronics (if you will) is almost infinite these days. The goal should be for an individual to find what works for them. It is not selfish because if we use headphones it is for us only. Once we can find what we individually like we can experiment and it is like a muscle...

What I did was find a way to hear a setup I did not like and a set up I did like and figure out why. One example is I used a ESS DAC with balanced and single outs to 4 headphone amps and listened to songs Angst (Rammsgein) and Billie Jean (MJ) at the same sample rates -doesn’t necessarily mean...

Nice. Some like me will use critical thinking and analyze what people say as information we will chew on for a time but when we start seeing the information is essentially half truths we might not be a welcoming as you and call it a misunderstanding. The half truth tactic is being bombarded on...

I created a network drive on my pc to the a6 then copy and paste. I have -not- tried any other option yet though. Then I refresh or rebuild the music from the a6.

Same issue even now. 1.2.50 — i also have a PLEX server on my network. If I use the PLEX app in the Eversolo all the music shows up correctly. The PLEX server will automatically update the meta data. The issue is I do not know if playing music from the PLEX app degrades the music since I do not...

I am waiting on a Denafrips DDS ires and a Denafrips Ares 12-1. The terminator would be awesome though along with the clocking. If I ever move to wanting full size speakers and I can afford that in the future. However for now I am using a Modi mb2 with coaxial in and once my brain adjusted to...

Keep it. It woild be a great present to one who does not -yet- know they want to spend lots of money on audio gear. :)

I have the Eversolo A6 ME. Also have Apple Music and Tidal. Apple Music is more cumbersome but it will play music videos on the A6 but Tidal doesn’t allow videos. Wonder if Tidal will update that?

I almost purchased the RME but I decided not to because I am tired of these AKM and ESS promises of always being better… something about the sound they deliver just turns into pain when listening with headphones. I moved to get a Danafrips with a Danafrips DDC. Waiting on them but in the...

Nice. That makes sense. Thank you.

I am using 2 Schiit Amps (Midgard and Maximus). I believe Schiit makes their Amps to favor R2R dacs somehow in their mathematical algorithm. With that using the ef499 as a dac and using the a6 as the source with Ayra Organic Headphones I believe that are also engineered to be used with r2r...

I switched up a little bit. I purchased a decent quality spdif coaxial to go from the a6 and feed the ef499 and have decent quality cables from 499 to the Nitsch Maximus (RCA) and xlr to the Schiit Midgard. I disconnected the Amazon Music in hires and switched to Tidal since it is the same...