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Originally Posted by jerg 

The E7 acting as DAC + Amp off of my Acer 5820TG laptop, makes a WORLD of difference in terms of sound quality from my M50's.

 

Namely, less flabby bass response, significantly fuller mids, a drastic improvement in imaging (how three-dimensional voices and real instruments sound), and somewhat smoother highs. The main improvements out of those are the mids and the imaging, the other two are minor but fairly obvious.

Aside from 16bit, 44.1kHz music, do you ever listen in on any Dolby or 5.1 audio? Do you find that it makes a difference for anything like that considering it cant even read that kind of data?

I ask because my setup is used 80% of the time for music and 20% of the time I would be watching videos. For example, I have taken on the task of going through all 6 seasons of the Sopranos, and I have the DVD format with Dolby DTS sound. With my headphones plugged right into my laptop I can hear a lot of the Dolby effects, like I mentioned earlier, I have a very mediocre Conexant 20585 Smartaudio HD soundcard, can I expect this to improve further with the E7/E9? I assume your Acer has a similar soundcard to mine?

Well I'm in Hong Kong, bordering Shenzhen, China. So I can travel to China to buy the Chinese amps/DACs for a much cheaper price :)

The main thing I like about E7 is that it cleans up all the garbage from the laptop sound card (like noise, buzzing sounds). It also tightens up the bass quite a bit.

That's pretty sweet man, have you ever considered whole selling to us in North America then? You could be the liaison between manufacturer and end user as that seems to be missing from many of these small but great Chinese manufacturers!

That sounds good to me, I just cant wait to hear for myself, my E7/E9 should be arriving by Monday and I cant wait to use them. Maybe I'll put up a review; the perspective of a noob.

Haha.

hmm... was about to pull the trigger on the E11, until I found out the E7 can be a usb soundcard.  i've only had laptops pretty much with stock sound cards....  was gonna build a PC once long ago, but back then i would have gotten a cheap soundcard too, since all i cared about back then was video card....

my friend recommended me a usb soundcard that was small and had a c-media chipset in it...  which had some pretty good reivews, but i'm pretty sure they'd only be a little better than on-board soundcard and mostly for people who had problems with their existing soundcard/broken headphone jack on their laptop.  Anyway, this would be like $10....but now i'm thinking why not just get an E7 that can do both?  

I've been reading that E11 is significantly better than the E7 in terms of sound.  Not sure if it's worth it to sacrifice sound and go for more versatile E7.  

I mainly listen to music on my phone.  About to get a used pair of HD 580s (for $95, which I think is a steal and I should get no matter what, although I was looking at ultrasones or something cheaper to hold me over until DT880).  I know my ipad2 has much better power and would need to use that if I were to get dt880 (250ohm)...  My phone has low impedance (high?), so especially my triplefi 10s sound hissy when I pause the music or at low volumes.

I definitely need AN amp, and I could always just still listen to music on my phone while at the laptop, so maybe I should just go with the one that is better?  I read E11 wouldn't do well for higher impedance beyers---what about the 250ohm?  

Am I reading right?  10 hour battery for E11, and 80 hour battery for E7???   Maybe I should just go the E7 route, and add E9 later?

thanks and sorry this is all over the place -_-   I'm a little delirious after spending so much time on these boards in the past 2 days instead of studying for my midterm and classes...........10 hours on head-fi for every 1 hour spent studying.  

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Originally Posted by theNABILcompany 

That's pretty sweet man, have you ever considered whole selling to us in North America then? You could be the liaison between manufacturer and end user as that seems to be missing from many of these small but great Chinese manufacturers!

 

That sounds good to me, I just cant wait to hear for myself, my E7/E9 should be arriving by Monday and I cant wait to use them. Maybe I'll put up a review; the perspective of a noob.

 

Haha.

Hey there, Since it has been a few months, I was curious how the new E7 / E9 workout with your laptop setup.  I have a similar setup (ultra Portable Lenovo ThinkPad with Conexant 50582 SmartAudio HD card) and am contemplating the purchase of the E7 for a start.  Volume output is way to low to run my Monoprice Cans effectively and would like to get some improvement.  

I was curious of yours and other subscribers experience with similar laptop confirmations?