Hi all, I believe i really have a weird situation that I just bought a susvara and currently have a Fiio M17. While the enhanced overear mode of M17 may drive susvara to some loudness, I am thinking to pair that with a speaker amp, Benchmark AHB2. so now i have M17=〉benchmark ahb2=> susvara...

Disclaimer: there is no technical stuff in this thread , just purely my journey to find my ultimate cable from Charles. Background context: Growing up and living most of my time in Australia, having a hifi hobby is very expensive, we don't have too many shops and products to audition before...

I purchased a ROMI mod Cayin N8 from a fellow head-fier to replace Fiio BRT5 for EE Odin. But I keep going back to BTR5!! Declaration, I am only using Spotify + LDAC on both N8 and BTR5 to listen to Korean Songs, BTS and Blackpink Izone etc.. The BTR5 has this insane forward mids so I can...

I have a dana cable which is currently terminated with FURUTECH 3-pin male xlr and need re-terminating to Female xlr. please let me know if you are based in melbourne for this service. Thanks in advance. Johny

Hi guys,   I have a tralucent ref1 with uber in ttrs and rwak240.   I also have a LA-7000(lawton audio fully modded D7000) terminated in 3pin balanced and a adaptor to 6.25mm headphone jack.   Now that I want to utilize LA7000 more as I haven't really been listening to since I purchased...

for those who got them already, it's such a tradgedy!!     It's such a great song with such bad recording.....   bearly listenable with lossless。   wat a failure!!!!!!!!   otherwise it could be a perfect song.

I am wondering this will still give the bass quantity and impact as ppl said LA7000 is a bit bass and bass impact less?   how about the mids?   I tried a D7000 with only cup change and was quite happy about that, so pretty much wondering what will D7000 sound with Cup change +cable...

    Quote:   This is what Kingwa emailed me.   Guess it's gonna be a mini box linking in-between transporter and the dac.

After hesitating for so long, i finally made the decision to purchase the "musical flavored" dac Audio-gd reference 8.   It should be here within a week or two.   I will draw down some impression and hopefully "long" enough to be a mini review after some listening and A/Bing with ultra...

I am getting a audio-gd reference 8 dac.   being a musical dac as described by kingwa, what do you suggest to pair this dac with a top tier amp?   a lot of the amps are being described as clear neutral and transparent, will they be good fit for reference 8?   thanks guys.   btw...

hi guys, i am buying some gears which worth total of 2700USD in the state and ship to australia.   but according to aussie custom i will have to pay 270USD as duty and tax which is considerably alot.   so just wondering anyone tried sending without declaring value or under declare?

i am not sure how these will sound as a combo...   bad recording or lossy file formate will be compensated by reference 9?   i am thinking of getting either c3 or BUDA+DPS, although price is nearly half as the other.

they are pretty much about the same price.   it gives me some kind of feeling that phoenix has more features and c-3mk3 has better amping.    is it so? i am very interested to know how different will they sound to amp a headphone.

or neither??   THey are around the same price offer to me, 999 cardas and 1025 moon-audio.   so which one should i pick or they just perform on par? or should i just be getting stock D7000 with 1/4 plug since there are that much improvement to justify the price difference?   does...

i've did some research over the net and found out gs-1,gs-x have been analytical , or not very musical. any other amps in the $1000 to $2000 range being musical and has good punchy base? BUDA？or WA22?

hi guys, i mean expensive ones like audio-gd reference series, especially reference 8 and 9. apparently, i only listen to 320k mp3 and a little bit of flac. is it worth to invest in an expensive dac? i am using a ultra micro dac +psu atm to pair with v8p and d5000

the bass should;ve got more punchy and wider when paring with pinkie, however, this is not my case. the soundstage certainly widens a bit and shows more details, however, the bass is brought backward and no more punchy feeling! i tried bugle boy, siemence e188cc, hewllete pack tubes and...

the bass should;ve got more punchy and wider when paring with pinkie, however, this is not my case. the soundstage certainly widens a bit and shows more details, however, the bass is brought backward and no more punchy feeling! i tried bugle boy, siemence e188cc, hewllete pack tubes and...

hi guys just received a pair of siemens w. germany E188cc. as i unscrewed the 8 screws both front and end, i find that both the frond and end panel is stuck to the pcb board. the front with a thin line connected to the board and the end with the linein lineout jacket. so how can i...

Things are just changing so fast,i cannot keep out with my own minds. since i have just decided to go for gs-1 instead of solo, i came up with another idea. i've already got a x-can v8p, why not trying something different such as a tube amp？ I only have the budget for either one. and i...

Just got my v8p today, linked to stock v-dac with a decent cable i am hearing hiss when the volumn is after 3 o'clock, very noticable. but at least when the volumn is around 11am, it's deadly quite. i am pairing it with D5000. hope it wont hiss when i got my pinkie + siemens E88cc tubes.

Hi guys, I am deciding to get one of the two. after reading lots and lots of threads I have a kind of a feeling that ppl do prefer solo to GS-1 or at least I've read more appreciation of Solo than GS-1. however, i've seen several for sale threads for solo but never saw any FS thread for the...

sorry for this dumb question but i am running outof ideas. the only source for logitech speaker input is the 1/8" jacket which is linked to a control and the control links to sub-woofer and speakers. but v8p's preamp has only two rca output. and i cant find a femle 1/8" jacket to...

would the use of battery in a portable micro amp sound worse than the micro amp with an astrodyne psu? I am also wondering whether the use of desktop power supply($499) will sig improve the SS and SQ and other aspects? thanks guys

hi guys, i've just purchased a MF v-dac and thought it might be a good idea to at least upgrade from the stock power supply. initially i was thinking of pinkie then i realized it's just too expensive for me now to purchase a PSU just for a specific dac. so are there any power supply...