Right. I guess the nuance to my question would be, do people feel as if the technology for the higher end has made a big leap past samsung/apple's offerings. My Galaxy Buds just died, and I could simply get replacement buds or look for an upgrade in SQ. I was considering the Melomania, but...

Is there any consensus over what the best sounding true wireless are, or are they all kind of in the neighborhood of the airpods pro and galaxy buds.

ATH-M50. Got em in 2012? Fixed cable, awful headband/arpads (both disintegrated), and SQ was nothing remarkable.

Right. 1770 or 177x then?

Dt1990

Very true. I've been out of the game for a while and I come back and see this. Hope he's enjoying his retirement.

Damn I spent a lot of money because of this guy. I am a bit late, but you'll be missed Tyll.

ASIO4All works. Just set the buffer offset to 20ms and select DoP as your DSD playback method as DOP in foobar.

Friends. It seems Pioneer no longer offers the ASIO driver for the XPA-700; only the firmware upgrade package. Could anyone help me source the ASIO driver?!

What's the copper purity?

First of all I never criticized the product or complained about having to pay for rush to get it in a week. Fisher still took around $500 from me so that isn't chump change. I chose to use Fisher, because I did not like how dark the UERR was and heard that the UERM would have been better for me...

Mine was a simple fit issue and I sent it in, since they were just too large for my right ear. If you have a channel imbalance I would simply just adjust the channel balance on an application. However, it sounds like you have an imbalance across frequencies? This may be a seperate hardware...

My InEarz Experience:   8/2: Shipped impressions+Order sheet (Rush+Art options) 8/4: Delivered 8/8: Received Invoice and requested change to two-day shipping, received new invoice and paid (Shipping should be an option on the order sheet) 8/11: Notified that I forgot to order a cable, took...

  Irvine.   That is most kind of you. I am on a bit of a time constraint, so I will let you know.

Considering the Spartan to run out of my XPA-700. Seems to be sensitive, but as far as I could tell the XPA-700 is pitch black in both SE/balanced.   I auditioned the UERR recently and did not like the sound signature, but felt as though the technical qualities were lovely. Could anyone offer...

A 3.5mm TRRS Adapter for DAPs and portable sources First button is an impedance switch for high/low Second button is a balanced/single ended connection switch

Do fakes exist of this? I ordered one for $10 and I can't seem to find fakes anywhere.

    Something like this. Try searching for a "micro usb power hard drive cable" or "micro usb y cable."         The balanced mode does sound superior; even with limited a/b testing. The XLR cable I got for the HD600 was pretty ugly, so thanks for the recommendation.   Does anyone...

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So my XPA-700 just arrived today. I'm still burning it in, but here are some notes: Build quality and feel are great. The volume knob does scratch a bit at 7 oclock, 3 oclock, and  5 oclock. No noticable channel imbalance. Extremely low noise. I'm talking a pitch black background Can drive the...

  Does the balanced mode have more power? Or does it only ground each signal independently.

  How much was the cable? I can't seem to find a reasonably priced ALO to 4-pin XLR adapter.   EDIT: Nevermind. Found one for $30 on ebay. It's much easier to find cabels that terminate in XLR rather than ALO/RSA. Still not sure if I am going to get the XPA-700 as a portable solution, but I...

Sorry to bring this thread back up, but does the DAC downsample DSD files (like the Onkyo/TEAC unit) or is it true DSD playback?

Can I plug the ha-2 into my laptop for playback and charge the ha-2 through a wallwart simultaneously? 

  What's wrong with a pre-amp in your setup?