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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Nope - the food is music. And music is the food of love. I'm not saying which of us is the monkey.- Canofcant
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- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
You been hanging round this place too long, Eric me old china. You forget that real humans hear music and kinda know whats good and bad and dont need to use all those fancy science words to describe the noise in their ears. Imagine coming home from a hard day at work and the monkey butler...- Canofcant
- Post #19
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Android users - Do you get distortion and low volume when using NON-stock music player apps?
Neutron is the dog's danglies on my Galaxy S3. I've tried Power amp, PlayerPro, N7 and the stock player, and for sheer sound quality and flexibility, Neutron trumps them all.- Canofcant
- Post #7
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Quote: How about: IT SOUNDS MUCH, MUCH CLEARER AND BETTER? Lol. Clearer. Better. Fitter. Faster. Like Gerard Depardieu turning into Usain Bolt. Or Bella Emberg morphing into Elle McPherson. How many kilos of bass or mids do you want for your discredited...- Canofcant
- Post #16
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Quote: Thanks for putting this so eloquently. Those Senn diaphragm things look interesting - will check 'em out.- Canofcant
- Post #15
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Portable DAP With Digital Output????
Galaxy S3 indeed outputs digital audio via mini usb port, and has been tested and proved to work with external dacs this way. There's a thread in the portable sources forum detailing it. I have a S3 myself and although I havent tried external dacs, the inbuilt 24 bit Wolfson in the...- Canofcant
- Post #8
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Yeah, sorry mate I didn't mean to be rude - I just get uppety when people tell me what I "need" to do! No offence meant. So yes, proceed with caution if you do this mod. But it's really not that difficult to get the filters out then replace the foam to a larger or lesser degree in the nozzles...- Canofcant
- Post #11
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
I don't need to say any of that really. That's just jargon. Ultimately, what my mod did was remove a thick layer of mud from the music. It has produced a level of detail and beauty to all aspects of the sound spectrum. As a previous owner of Re272s and SM3s, along with all manner of other high...- Canofcant
- Post #8
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Ok, so now I Am running these puppies with no filter material in them at all and using silicon tips I got with some Herman Kardon iems that are just the most comfortable fitting and great sounding tips ever. And the sound out of these Sony is soooo beautiful and balanced and clear its like the...- Canofcant
- Post #6
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
I've now stuck a filter from my Re272s on the nozzles and they sound even better- Canofcant
- Post #4
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Sony XBA-4 : modification lead me to heaven
Well, just thought I'd share this little tip with all you owners of the XBA-4s who might be a bit nonplussed by the veiled nature of the mids on these. After becoming very frustrated by the muddiness of mine, when playing through my Samsung Galaxy S3 (international version, which has the...- Canofcant
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- sony-xba-4sl hifiman-re272 sony-mdr-ex600 in-ear
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- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors