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I knew practically nothing and had previously been loyal in brand to audio technica which gives good quality and style, but after i loss my IEM, i decided to try another brand. 

 

i went to jaben in singapore, they dun have fischer audio silver bullet or etera v1, so i ask for head-direct re-zero. i take a good faith that these chinese products are the hard work of their research and development, and not stolen technology. HE 0 does really gives u the volume and clarity. i wasn't an audiophine but was given hippo box to try. this causes the fishcer dba-02 to show hissing sounds from a girl singing, and i compare on RE0 with and without amp, i thought the louder voice could be aided by tunining on my ipad directly, looking back i may be wrong, as the amp seem to make the music and singing more distinctly from each other. 

 

i paid S$150 (about US$100) for hifiman RE-0 (china brand, made in china)

but didn't buy the S$140 hippo box. 

 

it is heavy, but isn't that ugly, a little expensive for the design, weight and sound diffrences. i;m wondering what other brands of headphone amplifier is good at this price range (<S$200, or <US$135). i listen most to kpop, with a lot of rap.

 

 

thinking of getting amplifier and to know more about portable audio equiopments. 

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Welcome abroad to this great forum! 

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Welcome abroad ? I vividly recall a Singaporean student telling me that English was his native language, laughing maniacally - he then went back to speaking to his Singaporean friends. In Hokkien :)

 

 

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zoossh check out the ibasso T3. its a nice warm, and lots of bass. you'll like it. i did. 

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Welcome abroad to this great forum! 


so the basic setup of portable are

 

player + wire between amplifier and player + portable amplifier + IEM or headphone. rite?

i read from your signature. 

 

 

the last time when i bought an audio technica earphone, jaben gave me a thin FIIO amplifier as free gift but that is spoilt in less than a month. i recently was pickpocketed in europe, so i'm a little cautious about spending too much on such gears to bring around. i didn't buy the hippo box amplifier becos it cost S$140 and i didn't know before hand what are the options, so i guess a budget of less than S$200 is still ok and seeing what is best in that range. i took a look and the pico and corda stuff seem to be double of that. for a start, i might start off with something more affordable. 

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Welcome abroad ? I vividly recall a Singaporean student telling me that English was his native language, laughing maniacally - he then went back to speaking to his Singaporean friends. In Hokkien :)

 

 



well, depends on the language he speak with his parents when he grew up. that is the mother tongue. i suppose that is a little less likely if people in his surroundings speak mainly hokkien. are u Singaporean too?

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zoossh check out the ibasso T3. its a nice warm, and lots of bass. you'll like it. i did. 



i see that there is ibasso T4. does the number correspond well? as in is T4 better than T3? 

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t4 is the prev version. and i didn't hear the t4. i heard the t3 and t3d. if i were you i'd get the t3. it just sounds a little better to me.

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Yes, you'll need DAP (digital audio player), interconnect, portable amp and iems/headphone.

If I'm not wrong Corda XXS cost around $240 Sin dollars.

I would suggest you go audit for the sound that you like first before buying anything.

 

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so the basic setup of portable are

 

player + wire between amplifier and player + portable amplifier + IEM or headphone. rite?

i read from your signature. 

 

 

the last time when i bought an audio technica earphone, jaben gave me a thin FIIO amplifier as free gift but that is spoilt in less than a month. i recently was pickpocketed in europe, so i'm a little cautious about spending too much on such gears to bring around. i didn't buy the hippo box amplifier becos it cost S$140 and i didn't know before hand what are the options, so i guess a budget of less than S$200 is still ok and seeing what is best in that range. i took a look and the pico and corda stuff seem to be double of that. for a start, i might start off with something more affordable. 

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where would be a good place to audit corda and other brands?

so far i only know that hippo box is sold by jaben at adelphi, and ibasso is sold by stereo at plaza sing.
 

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Originally Posted by Bengkia369 View Post

Yes, you'll need DAP (digital audio player), interconnect, portable amp and iems/headphone.

If I'm not wrong Corda XXS cost around $240 Sin dollars.

I would suggest you go audit for the sound that you like first before buying anything.

 

33690447147372885704602.jpg
 

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You can audit Corda XXS at jaben, think they should have stocks.
 

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where would be a good place to audit corda and other brands?

so far i only know that hippo box is sold by jaben at adelphi, and ibasso is sold by stereo at plaza sing.
 


 
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well, depends on the language he speak with his parents when he grew up. that is the mother tongue.


My point exactly, and that language was clearly Hokkien. English might be the common language of Singapore, but it wasn't his 'native' language. If I had to make a broadbrush generalisation, the female Singaporean students I studied with seemed to have much better conversational English than their male counterparts - just from my observation of a small group of people. They also studied with an intensity that I hadnt encountered before :)

 

As someone who only speaks one language fluently, and a second poorly, its pure envy on my part that he knew several (he admitted his Mandarin was poor, but being able to read Chinese characters puts him way ahead of the rest of us). I look forward to the day that technology finally frees us all from the Tower of Babel.

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