Oops. I apparently had it at 48.0kHz only by default, so that even though I chose 192khz output in Advanced, it was outputting 48kHz most of the time. After a few more hours testing yesterday and today I have to retract that negative I said about some sounds like voices sounding...

In case I do go for a few years, I'd like to thank Head-Fi for helping me in my audio journey, and Kingwa and Audio-GD for making great affordable neutral hi-fi gear. I've enjoyed many years of good sound, not just for music, TV, and games, but also for viewing interviews/lectures/educationals...

Got my Master 11 . Half the size of Dac9+Phoenix stack and can put on my desk :). I've been testing several hours with some good high-res albums and a movie, and tried some albums without power conditioner. After temperature stabilizing, sound is a little bit warm/dark/closed-in/fat bass, I...

I was going past pages and saw discussion about upgrades. Are there any upgrades I should try to ask from audio-gd while they are making my Master 11? Also, does the Master 11 output ACSS through preamp, in case I want to connect this to an audio-gd speaker amp?

I just got quote and paid. I'll let you guys know how it compares to my dinosaur audio-gd setup when I get it and can play around with it some :). My cables are pretty cheap too. Mainly use decent aftermarket or DIY'ed OCC cables with good connectors. About power, I'm pretty darn happy with my...

What do people think about R2R-7 vs. Master 11? I've read some very good opinions on R2R-7, but I'm kind of siding towards the Master 11 because I like the smaller footprint and price :).

Hey everyone. Years ago I bought an audio-gd DAC-9MK3 and Phoenix (one of the first!), and used to be a regular on head-fi. I haven't been perusing audio websites for a long time, and I suppose that is the best compliment I can give to the audio-gd products that ended my search for audio...

Oh sorry, it worked when I posted it, guess it was in the last hour or two of the sale. Darn, was thinking about getting some X1's to give to my nephews.

Fiio products are greatly discounted right now on buydig. There's X7 without amp module for only $424. Wish I knew about this price when I got mine.   https://slickdeals.net/f/9479351-fiio-sale-x7-424-addon-cards-also-on-sale-x5-ii-222-a3-42-e12a-101-more-free-shpping?src=SiteSearch

     If there are audible differences between 2.0 and 3.0, it's most likely due to trying to lower the power consumption and streamlining the software, and not due to any deliberate attempt to change the sound signature. If you measure the sound output from the X7 with 2.0 and 3.0 firmware...

I have listened to the X7+AM3 balanced for about 40 hours, and just today I got the beta 3.0 firmware and listened for 4 hours. I pretty much only use the X7 as a USB audio device (It's about saving the environment from my 200W desktop setup), so can't comment on sound except when using the X7...

If you are worried about whether you are getting the version with fixed jack or old version on Amazon, just use Amazon's built-in buyer-seller messaging system and make sure the seller tells you explicitly that it is the version with fixed jack. If anything goes wrong, return the item to Amazon...

Tried searching but may have missed it, but does anyone know if there are any plans to add usb audio functionality to the DP-X1 so it can be detected as an audio device on Windows OS? It would be really nice if it could also be a low power consumption balanced amp for home use.   Right now I'm...

I have been listening my Snapdragon S7 with a few mid/high-end earphones and mid-level headphones and sound quality seems pretty average for a phone, definitely below the LG V10. I don't know what the Exynos S7 with different dac (wolfson?) sounds like, but I think it may have a better DAC. I...

Imaging and positional ability are two completely different things. First of all, almost no musical albums do any time delay DSP, they rely upon stereo panning and do it until "it sounds good". Audio engineers do not spatially position audio clips in the same way that 3D DSP try to.with HRTF...

Positional capabilities of equipment is how easily it allows a person to get an idea of the spatial position and distance of sounds, and obviously it is different person to person, and even time to time, i.e. learning about how gear and the sound clips in games sound which can take a lot of time...

Sony's innovative stuff like Qualia occurred at a time before they got a white CEO whose function was to fire the engineers that innovated. Actually Sony is doing pretty bad in all consumer electronics departments, even their gaming division when you factor in all profits and losses for the...

The dn2000 has a wide nozzle, for people with small ear canals it can be painful. Make sure you make use of the accessory silicone stuff to reduce contact of the metal protrusion to your ears.

Well unless Dr. Dre has been designing acoustic guitars, they don't do 20hz and probably can't even do 100hz, unless someone is banging on the soundboard or attacking someone with the guitar. Sure your K701 can reproduce acoustic guitars sort of accurately (and no I won't believe any claims that...

euphonic=musical, enjoyable. A lot of people like audio reproduction but for musicality, and the dn-2000 is meant to be analytical and not inject musicality, so it may be a turn off for people who expect musicality, not unembellished sound signature. At the same time, it does have boosted bass...

Will he let you trial them? I have the dn2000, I think some things you have to consider is that it isn't that forgiving, can seem flat or lifeless if you don't use it with euphonic equipment, has some boosted bass, and rolled off highs, might not be your cup of tea. Its strong points are...

Bass roll-off is less common with iem's than with full-sized headphones due to the close proximity of the speakers to your ear canal. What you're hearing is lower frequency bass, and possibly even what might be neutral bass, but which is probably being reproduced as unresolved bloated noises due...

  Well if you put it that way. This is ugly like a girl wearing pants on her head too, this is the remains of my very old OCC diy 24awg 4x conductor cable I had to cannibalize to use with these iem's because the only tool I had was scissors. I left on the mini-xlr bottom part because I intend...

To the people who have opened their altone200's, how likely do you think it is for this defect to affect the iem's? What I read, it seems like it might be something that can easily occur, and that people who purchased the predorder version should either open their altone200's to fix the issue or...

^I agree about the tuning, but I think the flagship headphones will be released globally. China Sony decided to leak it because it's just how unorganized Sony is. We'll probably also see two sentence product descriptions on amazon for the flagship headphones.