I have fiio e18 I sold my fiio x5.
The fiio e18 has coaxial out though any suggestion
Now I'm even more confused, so you have two dac/amps, and - no source?
...This really probably belongs in a different thread!?
Additionally, you haven't seemingly liked the LCD2 since the day you received them - a post of yours from the day you received them...
i recently bought a used well maintained audeze lcd2 rev2, and i noticed in the low end frequencies that sometimes the sound is like rumbles or distorts when there is extra bass, I am waiting for my chord hugo to arrive so right now I am using just the ifi ican nano as an amp connected to fiio 18 as dac.
so for example if i play the song magic by coldplay which has a lot of low end notes i feel something is not right in the low end, is that because i am using a bad dac and amp, and things will improve with chord hugo or is the audeze lcd2 rev2 not good in playing heavy bass music
...and you received the Hugo on the same day, so - as I said, looks like you're aiming for something that the LCD2s just do not want to do, if they distort when you pump your bass into them - I am not going to respond any further to you within this thread, as it is nothing to do with the Hugo that you're after, and moreso a headphone change, as I have said in an earlier post, I agree that the LCD2 isn't very powerful in terms of bass, well textured, but - not deep, not brain smashingly powerful, which - coming from the mass-market 50 cent headphones you like, is what you're expecting, but - will not get from higher end equipment - or at the very least from the LCD2 - which, you yourself acknowledged two months ago, so - am unsure why you cannot acknowledge it now.
Finally - following another post of yours - copied for completeness, but with the point I want to mention in bold...
i want basshead bass not open headphones bass as the ones you mentioned are open and i have doubt they are basshead
i am uisng an iPod touch as a transport with hugo, and every album with audeze I feel I have to adjust eq. And bass is not there to me
Whie this cheap sms by 50 cent gives me pleasure listening to music without eq and I keep the eq in the iPod flat, it has really nice bass punch and is not irritating in highs as the audeze ( sorry thats my opinion when paired with hugo ) the music is boring and FLAT FLAT in this combo.
So this is why I want the best of the best basshead headphone to pair with my beloved hugo
and since most of us who use hugo as a transport this means we use Onkyo HF player maybe you can share a bass head good sounding eq curve as I tried to play around with it and not that impressive, as the audeze starts to distort if I want to reach basshead level bass
And to add to the irony, I just paired my phone sony xperia z ultra by buetooth to my sms by 50 cent ( bluetooth ) and compared it to the very expensive hugo+ audeze, and guess what I liked the xperia and sms better I am sure that its the headphones of audeze that are not doing it for me bass wise
Why not stay with the setup that you yourself said you preferred? - we all make mistakes in our audio gear choices, and - if you prefer the cellphone and 50 cent headphones, more power to you, enjoy them, and - as cosmic says below, sell all your other gear to get some of the money back.