We do have apple dongles here, but I'm on android and it's the 0.5V version only (unlike the 1V version in the US), so I'm probably going to end up with a extremely quiet sound. I plan on saving up some money and getting an Aful SnowyNight

"It might just get hot(most of the energy is dissipated by the amp instead of being used by the IEM)." I'm having this problem with my current portable (kinda more of a dongle) dac+amp. It heats up quite a bit and it has a lot of that hiss noise / static - ground noise to it. I have also...

Could you give me an example of some hard to drive IEM's? IE 200 are 18ohms with a sensivity 101dB/mW, and they don't get "very" loud :D Although I suppose they must be pretty easy to drive still

Hey everyone, I don't really understand how impedance works. I've heard that basically higher impedance = harder to drive (lower volume), lower impedance = easier to drive (high volume). But I have the Sennheiser HD 560S (120ohm), Sony XBA-A3 (32ohm) and Sennheiser IE 200 (18ohm), and the higher...

Hey, I watched the video, I decided I'm either going with Aful SnowyNight or Aune Yuki, but I can't figure out for myself if that $60 more for the yuki is worth it, they seem to be very close to each other, is the amp in the yuki better than in snowy night? I'm using my CS43131 chip which has an...

I'm totally lost since everyone here suggests different things 😅 I'm surprised there isn't a portable dac to really step up the game and be the "eng-game" for that budget. I guess I'll have to just do my research on each of these next, thanks to you and all the others replying and helping me...

Hey everyone. I've got https://sl.aliexpress.ru/p?key=kMPssaP this dongle and I feel it isn't good enough. What is/are the best dongle-(s) or portable dac's anywhere between $100-$150? I don't need bluetooth, would be nice to have a balanced output and a low static noise level (because that...

I sure do love expensive good quality gear and music, but that's just too much 😅

Fiio BTR5 is definitely a great device, but bluetooth isn't my kind of passion 😅 I'm leaning towards going the Qudelix 5K way, I'm probably going to save up some money and buy it, unless I'll see a listing for a very good price for a DAP locally (used Sony DAP's here cost the same as MSRP) 😵‍💫...

Yes I'm using them through my S22 Ultra, I tried the airplane mode but the noise is still there. I mainly use Spotify because of easy access to all my music library but I also have some albums downloaded in FLAC in Poweramp and they have the same issue.

Hello everyone, I'm almost 3 months into the audiophile hobby now and my past two headphones we're the HD 560S, and the IE 200 which are easy to drive and sound good from any almost any source out there, but I purchased a pair of Sony XBA-A3's, and well, I feel like my $30 aliexpress dongle...

Great! I have searched a lot about the N3's but I still don't really get what the difference between N3 / N3AP / N3BP is. I see that Ap and Bp series are sold in sony centres in European countries and more, but we don't have them here, actually, our sony centre's most expensive earphones (can't...

That's fantastic! I am very new to the audiophile hobby but I think I'm learning quickly :) Coming from my Sennheiser IE 200 to these (not because I don't like them, just to try out some new horizons) I feel like my Sennies had that very sort of "lifeless" sound, but maybe I would prefer them...

Hello everyone, today I've bought my second pair of IEM's, these beautiful Sony XBA-A3 from a local seller for $200, and I'm going to share my first impressions with you all! :D Release date: September 2014; MSRP - $500, anywhere from $150-$220 today. The Sony XBA-A3 is XBA-H3's successor...

The seller tried rubbing it with alcohol and he says it works fine, but I guess the actual cable problem isn't gone... (when twisting the cable the sound was disappearing / losing audio) so the 3.5 wasn't the only thing wrong with it I suppose

Yes I saw that video too some time ago, today when I was listening to the XBA-A3 I could tell they sounded somewhat "old", but it doesn't mean they we're bad, like, at all! In fact thinking about how they sounded now I think these are a great choice for me, I wanted to go for something...

Here's what it looked like (on the left) vs new on the right

Hello everyone, I have met up with a seller of a pair of Sony XBA-A3's and both his cables we're about 80% "scratched" into a silver looking color, they we're also faulty, had to hold them in a special way for them to work (when rotating the 3.5 jack, it was distorting, when twisting the cable...

Hey, I have met up with a local seller and tried the A3's, I didn't buy them (185€ 😬) because both the cables we're faulty and worked only half-way through (the 3.5mm jack was totally scratched on both cables and they looked like a silver-y color more than "golden") outputing a bad sound. But...

Hey, I have met up with a local seller and tried the A3's, I didn't buy them (185€ 😬) because both the cables we're faulty and worked only half-way through (the 3.5mm jack was totally scratched on both cables and they looked like a silver-y color more than "golden") outputing a bad sound. But...

Dang, I forgot to edit the post and clarify that the A3's are now available for $150-$200 :) Still though, thanks for the reply. I'm not really into chi-fi though, I see people saying they're the best everywhere but there's just something about them I don't like. I posted the same question on...

Hey everyone, I own a pair of IE 200 which I like (no mods, yes, people like me exist) but they started to bore me a little, I wanted to go for another more "spicy" or at least more promising iem to me than my current IE 200's, which I have found to be the Sony XBA-A3. I've already made a post...

Hey everyone, new guy here :D IE 200 we're my first pair of iem's after my first pair of headphones (HD560S) and I'm loving them, and the a3's ($150-$200) caught my attention being fairly cheap and having a dynamic driver along two BA drivers which is pretty impressive, a3 is also Z5's ($500)...