We had some fun taking an audiophile quiz. Would you answer the same?

To relive my youth✨

Sounds about right. Have a Cavalli Liquid Fire staring me in the face, been meaning to find tubes for. It was a sweet sounding amp back in the day:).

I see the model Violecric V550 is made for lower impedances. Since you have 2 of them, which Bakoon works best with DTC?

All modern amps are for the most part flat frequency response, yet that all sound different. That's the trouble with measurements, they require experience to interpret them, and even then it's only part of the overall picture, that is unless you designed the thing. If you're saying that...

Given an amplifier has a specific output power into 100 ohm load (headphone) and half that power into 50 ohms, how would you characterize the output impedance of the amp? What’s causing a 50% drop in power when it should have doubled down? I mean, we’re not talking driving a dead short here, 50...

Come to think of it, we did a video on amps...

Would be nice if it were that simple. Bottom line, wrong system for the job.

@Svstem my comments concerning the V281 concerns it's sonic character. Have you seen measurements of the V281? Google it. Notice how it begins to roll below 100 Hz. That doesn't;t bode well for low frequency extension and definition. Notice how it's output power drops with decreasing impedance...

I had specific design parameters for the stock cable for the original AB1266. It had to be clear to the source, low capacitance to play nice with what was then a mixed bag of headphone amps, non-microphonic, durable, and lightweight enough to not weigh down the headphone. From a cost...

The stock cable for the AB1266 is specific to this headphone. The fillers are used to properly space the conductors to set up the capacitance and inductance mating to the drivers. To say the fillers contribute nothing to the sound is not accurate, they are a significant part of the design of the...

The problem with Amps...

Methodology needs to be discussed as to how it affects subjective opinions.

@WaveTheory You're running what we would consider obsolete gear. The Berkley S2 DAC is an old design, DAC's have come a long way since circa 2012. This is most likely the largest flaw in your system, the source, no getting around it. The V281 amp was not exactly designed with low efficiency...

@Shini44 you may want to try a different cable. I don't think an aftermarket silver litz is a good idea with Diana TC. It may work well with headphones having a slightly softer top end, not here. Of course it's difficult to tell what you're really hearing from your system. PM me if you want to...

When final tuning the Diana TC and trying it on all the gear we have in-house I preferred class A solid state amps, just seems to bring out the best in her. Tonality of DTC is similar to the 1266, acoustics are the biggest difference between the two, the AB1266 having that infinite speaker like...

Absolutely you can do it over time, it’s just not going to happen in 3 days, and for whatever reason there’s seems to be a need tor speed here. I should mention it’s much better to listen to a new thing for days at a time rather than swapping in and out. Choices then tend to favor long-term...

@qboogie that's if it's left to play for that amount of time. If you keep disconnecting, reconnecting, coiling, etc. during break-in you pretty much need to start the timer again. If you can and using a solid state amp just let it play, put a pillow over the headphone:). Both stock and...

Primarily the interface between conductor and dielectric changes. Capacitors go through a similar change. Connector contacts also reach a steady state after plugged in, but that's more like 15-20 minutes after connected. The contact surface area on each connector settles. Audibility of the...

Understood. The post was sort of a work in progress... I think we all need a bit more patience.

@Ciggavelli I’m curious why you think it’s strange we only sell the stand in the US?

Screw torque sets the amount of compression on the gasket material, so affects coupling of the speaker driver baffle to the frame and ultimately it's resonant character. Varying the torque settings is noticeable (as are changes in gasket materials). It's a highly tweaked out assembly, and screw...

@Dealiux Back then, Tyll's measurements had a higher amount of distortion than our own. I tried to work with him on the problem for months afterward, but he had no interest in looking at his own rig for potential issues, he didn't think it was him. At some point in the future he mentioned that...

It's our Alumiloy hookup wire, same conductors in the stock headphone cable itself, x4. Resistance of each of those leads (conductor only) ~0.003 ohms, negligible.

That's a TC driver. Looks normal. What's the issue? The black area underneath is aluminum, the diaphragm material is adhered to it in that area. I should mention that inspecting the 1266 from the baffle side is something we don't even do. The odds of damaging the driver is quite high even with...