Yeah, I searched about QP1R...It's a bit more expensive and sonic wise, it isn't that much better (just a bit in treble maybe). And it has no USB DAC and one or two other things that put me off. But the main concern was price.       the qp1r is better not just in its treble, but has a...

the n6 is very good, and good value for its price.  the questyle qp1r is better - with a richer treble and without the slightly artificial "air" i hear around each instrument on the n6.  otoh, the qp1r is 50% more expensive.  the n6 clearly outperforms the ibasso dx90, which sounds congested...

my comparisons were classical and jazz only, on a samsung phone.

years ago i spent time a-b'ing neutron with several other players.  there was a clear difference to my ears: neutron was noticeably better.  i no longer use it, really.  i use a dap:  a qp1r, but if i were listening to my phone i'd use neutron.

comply 400 series

[pardon me if this is redundant- im just catching up on this thread and saw this post from a week ago.]   if you're looking for isolation you might want to look at etymotic. i have the er4pt with custom tips.  that gives roughly -45dB.     over at theheadphonelist dot com, ljokerl has a...

yes, but that's in canadian pesos.  ;-)

yeah, i figured that by the time you tried the various fixes for the wheel you'd fall in love with the sound.   when i said "sell the device" i thought that that would be very unlikely.     i actually use the wheel very rarely. i only do folder play and find the capacitive buttons quite...

iirc scrolling in pages instead of folders is determined by the "flip" function in your system settings.  if the wheel doesn't start working better with use, and you don't want to put on a plastic screen protector type wheel skin or stick on the wheel a physical eraser type button, and you find...

use the capacitive buttons.

so it makes sense then to prefer higher volume with lower gain, since gain can only increase any distortion from the dac and amp, while volume works on the input signal so at that stage you're just dealing with any noise that was in your original signal.  thanks for explaining all this.  much...

fwiw, my comparison of the n6 and qp1r, using k812's, is here. for me the qp1r sounded better than the n6, and - at least with k812's- i'm pretty confident i could distinguish the two.

that's what i was looking for- that gain and volume acted in different places in the signal chain.  but another question:  if the noise is in the original signal, won't increasing the signal ANYWHERE in the process have the same effect?  so is the relevance only to noise produced within the...

i know it is said that less efficient headphones "need" higher gain but i'm trying to understand what difference it makes.  i decided to use my alpha primes [90db] with the qp1r this morning.  the dap had been on low gain and i discovered i had to turn the volume up much higher to listen...

a question:  what's the difference between changing gain and changing volume?  suppose i can listen to some headphones at high volume while on low gain, at medium volume on medium gain, and at low volume on high gain.  is any of these setting combinations preferable, and if so, why?  [thanks to...

if you browse by file you can nest folders as many layers as you wish. e.g. i have classical>d-z>schubert>chamber music>late quartets> quartet 14-death and the maiden> several subfolders {alban berg or belcea or lindsays or melos or takacs or tetzlaff's}   or, if you want bach  ...

fwiw i've read that flac level 5 gives the optimum trade off between compression and computational burden.  apparently higher levels are only slightly more compressed, but require much more computation to unpack and thus drain battery life.

i used an external card reader to copy my files.  i have 2 x 200gb cards functioning without a problem.

i think it would be helpful for ALL comparisons [not just yours] to describe what kind of music you like and what music you used to eval sq.

yes. i love the ability to tune them to my preferred signature, and they're great paired with the qp1r.  not much isolation with the supplied tips.  comply 400 series tips work well if you want more isolation.

I use it for ALL solo piano. I don't care much for gould, but, yes it would be the perfect phones to listen to him.