janawe
New Head-Fier
Is the C3 still a good player in 2018 against other entry levels daps ?
It’s being sold at 25 usd right now, and it’s incredibly tempting.
May I ask where you found it for $25?
Is the C3 still a good player in 2018 against other entry levels daps ?
It’s being sold at 25 usd right now, and it’s incredibly tempting.
May I ask where you found it for $25?
NOT ONLY the most neutral BUT the most transparent as well.......
IF you do pair C3 with a bugdet friendly little amp like NX1S or BlueBird U3 ....the you have the whole package in front of you....Nice wide soundstage .....airy spacious vocals.....lively vivid sound experience..
i had bought C3 from massdrop at 59 $ and i would pay even more to get this quality sound source,,,,25$ its a totally steal.....
It's a great price for sure. I would say though that it desperately needs to be connected to an amp to get the best out of it.
I am not one to believe in burn in with headphones, (Tyll proved that with testing) and especially not with solid state electronics. Different batches of components from various suppliers would attribute a different sound. This is just my opinion, but if burn in works for you then by all means enjoy.So everybody who bought one recently, these do burn in. I've had one as my only player for a couple years, and I bought another from that link (23!). Once burned in, the player loses the 'hard' sound some have mentioned, gets more cohesive and the sound stage opens up quite a bit. 20 hours of pink noise seems to have helped, but the new one still has some way to go before it sounds like my old one. Maybe it just takes time and music.
I wasn't believer in burn-in before, but since my hifi ear has improved and I have heard it myself, now I believe in headphone aswell electronic burn-in. I wasn't nowhere at that level in times I got my C3 though, so can't comment with that, but with my most recent dap xuelin ihifi780 I heard how it improved with burn-in. Most notably with soundstage, imaging and separation. Sound simply opened up.
What is more likely is not the question, the question is what occurs. What occurs is that headphones and electronics do burn in, do sound different after some time.
Are you sure you're not conflating two different 'scientific' gyrations here? How is 'more susceptible' quantified? Or 'drastically', or 'sound signature'? What you're saying is not 'proven' at all. I have two C3 to compare directly, and they sound different. You can pretend it's because of different components, if you want, but go ahead and try to 'scientifically prove' that.