kova4a
Headphoneus Supremus
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Well, as far as my statement about the BH, I personally never commented on sound signature and digital or analog sounding. I just said and still stand by my words that the BH is really showing its power and technical potential through a real line-out and not the relatively weak headphone-out on the C3. The C3 on it's own is mid-centric, smooth and relatively airy sounding with good timbre. The BH through the line-out of an ipod will sound like it sounds - dry and on the cold side. So, tour above statement should belong more in the C3 thread for praising its merits but the fact that you don't like your itouch with the BH or other amps doesn't disprove my point that the BH is a lot better performer through a line-out. It's dead silent all the way up to 95% on the volume pot even on high gain. It can drive headphones on low gain and 7 o'clock on the volume pot, which are barely driven on high gain and the volume maxed when it's paired with the C3 and can go way way higher in volume without starting to clip and distort. It's nice that you like your C3+BH but I'm just stating what the BH can actually do when powered properly.
Today in late evening had not much to do and remembering some past conversations I decided to try higher quality silver LOD from iTouch 4 into BH and my EB50. I recall some people were claiming iTouch sounds better than C3 with BH... What can I say? Nothing like this IMO. While iTouch sounds surely better with amp via good LOD cable i find it sounding more digital, lacking air and articulation dynamics, essentially no matter how much time I spend on listening iTouch just does not come ahead, stage is flat and compressed, timbre lacks richness while much falls into lower registers in bass and overall presentation becomes pretty boring despite fairly good detailing. iTouch simply cannot produce analogue-like sound no matter, i tried two more amps including Digizoid and another amp I received now, but neither could force iTouch to sound analogue. Mind this iTouch is an Ok player and delivers good sound when amped but... this not anywhere close to audiophile world unless you use older moded or rockboxed versions of iPod classic.
So far so are my findings. And to counteract arguments about Apple bashing and bias I have to tell that except for iPod my home is fully Mac equipped with five computers, three iPhones and some smaller stuff... Plus I personally know director of Apple for Europe... So if iPods could sound really good I would have bought them in no time.
Well, as far as my statement about the BH, I personally never commented on sound signature and digital or analog sounding. I just said and still stand by my words that the BH is really showing its power and technical potential through a real line-out and not the relatively weak headphone-out on the C3. The C3 on it's own is mid-centric, smooth and relatively airy sounding with good timbre. The BH through the line-out of an ipod will sound like it sounds - dry and on the cold side. So, tour above statement should belong more in the C3 thread for praising its merits but the fact that you don't like your itouch with the BH or other amps doesn't disprove my point that the BH is a lot better performer through a line-out. It's dead silent all the way up to 95% on the volume pot even on high gain. It can drive headphones on low gain and 7 o'clock on the volume pot, which are barely driven on high gain and the volume maxed when it's paired with the C3 and can go way way higher in volume without starting to clip and distort. It's nice that you like your C3+BH but I'm just stating what the BH can actually do when powered properly.