Personally I love the P8 and say spend a little extra. You can snag em open box on eBay for 200-250 frequently. P8 sounds about 90% as good as my mest mkii’s. Obviously can’t match it at the price, but it’s a really good nuetral iem. Destroys the 64 audio 8 ba per side customs I had. I...

I use the same case and love it for the most part, except that it seems to prevent me using a screen protector. It presses in such a way that they screen protector lifts up around the edges. Especially when you press buttons. Just wondering if you’ve tried a screen protector and know of one that...

Did you end up doing this? I’m considering the same thing but a bit freaked out about the idea of shipping them there with no guarantee that if something went wrong I’d be made whole. Seems my only option is usps with no insurance options available. Also worried about customs or having to pay...

So… you’ve never even heard an iem yet felt the need to make wildly negative claims about them and disparage someone for purchasing them. Got it… Aful p5 is a fantastic iem for its price bracket and being a DD/BA style iem without an est driver. The highs are much more resolving than many...

Rubbish and an unnecessarily combative comment. Have you heard the Aful? I had the moonlight and still have the p5. P5 is a little smeary in the highs and has a slight ba timbre but is a very good all-rounder with excellent bass response. The technicalities aren’t amazing, but not terrible...

In a perfect world I’d keep these. Amazing detail and clarity and the most comfortable iems I’ve ever used. Put my my 64audio 8 ba (V8) in ears to shame. But my collection has now grown to big and some stuff has to go. Including the unused spinfits (M) and a set of bgvp memory foam tips (M)...

I have an uncapped Japanese version. With my iems it gets just loud enough for me. And some of the extra sensitive ones get louder than I need. At 120 my unique melody mest mkii are just loud enough to be at the loudest I would want to listen, and usually I’m more around 105-110. However I am...

Realized “high-resolution streaming” was already shut off in my case. The hi res option in poweramp is already upsampling to 192/32. Another question. If I have all the Sony sound stuff turned off do I need to still toggle direct? Or is that pointless if nothing is engaged anyway?

So if I’m using poweramp in Its own hi res mode… is Sony going to down-convert my high res files if I have high-res streaming off? I wasn’t aware of this option but would like to turn it off to save more battery, but not if it’s going to down-convert my hi res files played on poweramp.

I see you have a couple iPods in your mix too. They are pretty easy to mod. Especially the 5th gen (classic/7th gens are harder to remove the back case). Bluetooth implementation can be done more seamlessly using the hold button as the control for the Bluetooth, but I liked having the bigger...

Yep. I did the modding. 1tb sd card via tarkan adapter, 3000mah battery, and I added Bluetooth (with aptx hd codec). I’m going to refine the Bluetooth integration with the case soon, but here’s how it looks now. When I travel this thing is ultra important as sometimes I can go days without being...

So Dan’s audio reviews on YouTube just posted a mangird tea 2 sound demo. I don’t have mangird tea 2 but was heavily considering them before I bought my moonlights. When I listened to the demos (on my mest mkii) the tea 2 sounded remarkably similar to my moonlights. So I checked the squigs and...

I’m glad you’re doing this! So I actually meant to test my a306 as I recently tested all my daps and planned to make a full post about my findings. But I got it and haven’t been able to put it down long enough to test. I’ll report my other daps below for us to compare your findings against...

Long time apple user here. Ldac and aptx hd destroy aac. Honestly aac is pretty disappointing in my experience. Part of why I moved towards an android device for music. Also the user interface/experience is better and more customizable than Apple Music/iTunes (although I use poweramp rather...

If yours comes with android 10 praise whatever god or demons ya like and leave it. Try to figure out how to block auto updates. If it’s on 11 and you have the issue… keep trying each update and testing after each one. Maybe you’ll get lucky. I didn’t. Tried probably 15 versions/updates and all...

Volume issue started with android 11 and has persisted through 12 and 13. Some intermittent updates along the way seem to correct the issue and others break it again but which updates fix it and which ones break it is unknown and seems random for different phones. Aka one update may fix one...

Just a update. Lg has still not offered any way to fix this. It isn’t affecting everyone but it is affecting a lot of people on android 11, 12, and 13. What’s annoying is there is no real rhyme or reason to it. I will say MANY of the people who say theirs is working fine end up realizing they...

@Tiax way to be condescending. This isn’t my first rodeo. Been using in ears for over a decade and I mix and master music and have fairly well trained ears. I was simply reporting my subjective experience. That being… that it made little difference and what was there may be the cable or...

Few glamor shots. Japanese a306 with the new kbear “black blade” cable which I added a “balanced” ground right angle termination/plug to. Was able to reuse the original kbear sleeve so I didn’t lose any of the cables aesthetic. Not sure I hear any real sound improvements with dual ground...

This is probably my own RTFM moment but I can’t get the absolute volume off while using Bluetooth. With my main home setup I like absolute volume. But I’d like to control volume with the 306 for other situations. I changed it in developer options and I think I have it set right in poweramp as...

Awesome thanks for backing it up and testing. I assumed the pinout couldn’t be that divergent from a standard 3.5 as it’s a single jack. Also I saw the pic you shared with a previous Sony iteration mentioned. It would make sense that it’s essentially the same pin out but adding dual grounds at...

I’m gonna be modding an iem cable to take full advantage of the a306’s balanced output. Can anyone out there using balanced verify that this is the layout for the a306? Should be able with a multimeter.

To me it seems to make the bass response a touch looser. Not a fan. I keep going back and forth on DSEE. It’s so subtle. Blind AB I am able to sorta pick out when it’s on but it’s difficult. Maybe it’s more obvious on lower quality files? I just don’t wanna waste the extra battery if it’s not...

I’m using a 1tb sandisk extreme in my a306. Probably actually at around 650gb full. Works great.

In my opinion. Yes. I think the sound is better. Not as much gain. I have the uncapped version so I have enough to drive my iems. Even my more power hungry mest mkii. Which is fine for me. But to me the Ibasso’s battery life was so terrible that it was useless to me as a dap. I mean I had a 5...