Thank you! One learns something new every day.

This might be a stupid question, but I thought you could use any dual 3.5mm headphone cable with the MDR-Z1R if you didn't care about the extra security of the screw in connectors, but perhaps I am wrong? I just got a custom cable and I get no sound at all. I can see a 0.5mm physical...

I'm starting to wear out mine too. I'm quite surprised that a small series high-end headphone like this use cheap plastic fake leather that deteriorates in just a couple of years (and start shedding micro plastics). I've looked and you can't even buy real-leather pads for these, which is even...

Just adding my 2c to confirm this. I moved from Foobar 2000 to AIMP a number of years ago because I wanted a more modern interface and I was happy with the sound for a long time (I used the built-in equalizer). But in recent years I had equipment changes and were a bit surprised that some didn't...

I EQ the heck out of mine to get a more fun sound too, so it's interesting to see someone else do it as well. Out of curiosity I compared our curves, though I listen to more ambient or melodic electronic music, a lot of jazz and more laid back vocal music, so not sure if any knowledge can be...

Since you have the Pro, have you tried to only use the DSP features of the RME (essentially for EQ/loudness compensation only) and feed it into your other DAC? That feels like such an overkill thing to do, but since it's apparently possible I'm curious if anyone has tried it...

Ok, so my Final Edition isn’t final anymore and this new Limited Edition isn’t limited. Got it. 😆 And is it only for the US market? Didn’t see it on Violectric’s domestic website. Funny to read that the old relays were ”noisy and problematic”. Mine’s dead quiet at the volumes I’m listening to...

Ok, so the remote app that RME developed and gave us for free(!) is super nice and so much more convenient to use than their rather convoluted hardware interface... I've also changed methods for how to EQ and I must say that I landed on something even better than before (for me): Rather than...

(Also available on Qobuz for those who wants hi-def.)

I have. They're in the center of this photo. I've said this elsewhere, but they could sound like angels whispering in my ear for all I care, because they were so laughably heavy that it disqualified them from any consideration! My Ether 2 are planars and at 290g I have no issue wearing them for...

My 15 year bass journey... unless I hear rumors about some new headphone with really deep bass, I'm done. :) Ultrasone Pro 900 - this was my entry 15 years ago... must admit, it was a downgrade to the UE Triple.fi I had back then, but it was a start. Fostex TH-X00 Ebony - boom town. The...

Well, the two graphs show that it's roughly -20 dB which I guess is roughly what the ADI-2 can EQ but I just thought that a Hi Cut would... well... cut. 😉

I wanted a flat for reference. But that entire discussion is something I'm currently having on a different forum. 😉 (MiniDSP does provide compensation curves, though.) What I was really curious to find out here is if any other head-fi users use the Hi Cut feature of the ADI-2 and what they...

I found the same... in fact, I don't think I have anything from the 60s. 70s is better but... and this might be blasphemy... I must admit don't like many of Stevie Wonder's records on my expensive setup... they're so overly warm! 🙉 However, Marvin Gaye's What's Goin On, for example? Wooooow...

Yeah, I guess this is the best I'm going to get out of this cheap microphone setup, but if what I'm seeing is accurate right now, I'm pretty happy. Tweaked quite a lot last night and now I have one "flat" curve (blue) and one which is more "fun" (green). How it looks on the ADI-2 (headphone...