Headstage Arrow HE: Reviews, Impressions, Perceptions & Sensations - Page 163

I can confirm the interference is much worst that with 3G version.

Anyway, can be solved by using airplane mode:)

Issue also mentioned in this test:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/585786/multi-portable-amp-thread-12-amps-reviewed-shonyun-306-added-10-03-12

But I can feel what is improved: more Transparency, Dynamics, Resolution, Detail...with slight (little) additional Bass.

I also notice sometimes the imbalance, but not above my tolerance.

I wonder how this can beimproved on Portaphile 627.

But for me too much on negative side:

for me at least twice higher the price: 549USD ~ 420EUR (+27% import tax!), vs 250EUR for the Arrow 4G (but was 210 EUR for me as refurbished 3G ungraded),

Very whort battery life, no USB charging, no auto power on/off...but anything like bass/treble/cross no need for me.

impedance switch will be replaced with treble boost. I sent my 3g for repair but it came back already as 4G so not sure how much for an upgrade.

can someone tell me if robert has changed e-mail in the last month or so ?

maybe that's why he hasn't answered to me....

3 months gone by and still waiting for my arrow amp upgrade

NICE    
 

I always writen to all  what i found:

mail@headstage.com
info@headphonia.com
info@headphone.de

At the beginning answer came back from mail@headstage.com, then from info@headphonia.com.

Hey guys, my Arrow 4G arrived and I'm sort of confused... This might sound sooo noobish (I'm not huge on portable amps) but what does the Cross switch do? On the site, it opens a foreign language PDF and ya... So far, it sounds really nice, a huge upgrade from an E11. Dat mids and treble...

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Originally Posted by planx 

Hey guys, my Arrow 4G arrived and I'm sort of confused... This might sound sooo noobish (I'm not huge on portable amps) but what does the Cross switch do? On the site, it opens a foreign language PDF and ya... So far, it sounds really nice, a huge upgrade from an E11. Dat mids and treble...

its a crossfeed switch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfeed
http://www.head-fi.org/t/233288/what-is-crossfeed
http://www.leckertonaudio.com/2010/09/what-is-headphone-crossfeed/

switch 0 is no crossfeed

switch one is from left to right

and switch two is from right to left

or i forgot LOL
 

are anyone tell me how about the headphonia's service?

i plan to have a arrow amp but i read lot about "terrible" service when i seach for it 

IME its "service" depends. maybe they are just busy, or have many manufacturing backlogs or something.

My 3g broke and i sent it for repair and I got it back after 1-2 months of waiting and it was shipped directly to my doorstep. I live in southeast asia.

but one friend of mine waited for his arrow for 6 months, while i waited for mine when i purchased it around 3-4 months only.

edit: or you can buy a used one!

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Originally Posted by Dyaems 

IME its "service" depends. maybe they are just busy, or have many manufacturing backlogs or something.

 

My 3g broke and i sent it for repair and I got it back after 1-2 months of waiting and it was shipped directly to my doorstep. I live in southeast asia.

 

but one friend of mine waited for his arrow for 6 months, while i waited for mine when i purchased it around 3-4 months only.

 

 

edit: or you can buy a used one!

thanks a lot, but it's so hard to find anyone sell a used 4G amp 

Do you know other shop sell it?

after 3 months of waiting , i got an email today saying that my amp was left to post office and wll receive it next week

fingers crosses let's see !

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Originally Posted by neverdien 

thanks a lot, but it's so hard to find anyone sell a used 4G amp 

Do you know other shop sell it?

just lurk in the FS thread and you can even get an arrow 3G because it is already good. difference between the 3G and 4G for me is the impedance switch got replaced with treble boost. as for its sound, they are both the same IMO

i wouldn't replace my 3G with a 4G if one of my 3G's jacks got broken

my arrow 4g is finally here

what do those 2 small cables are supposed to do ? anyone knows ?

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Originally Posted by Dyaems 

 

just lurk in the FS thread and you can even get an arrow 3G because it is already good. difference between the 3G and 4G for me is the impedance switch got replaced with treble boost. as for its sound, they are both the same IMO

 

i wouldn't replace my 3G with a 4G if one of my 3G's jacks got broken

And just another reminder ... the 3G bass boost is significantly different than the 4G's ... both are equally good in realization but one might be better with certain IEMs than the other.

Sort of a moot point as one, most folks are buying the 4G and two, I've heard distant rumblings (from on high) that the 5G might find some way to combine the two as options (the punchier bass of the 3G as *well* as the smoother bass of the 4G...and as possibly switch based selections. But you didn't hear that from me ...

What cable? I only received the USB and the device itself