Buying a low latency bluetooth transmitter with aptx adaptive to send low latency bluetooth audio to some wireless iems, but I need to figure out which iems would sound the best for movie watching? Some combination of clear vocals, decent base for explosions as they may arise, good sound...

Right now I'm using optical to my fiio dac from my lg cx TV for audio. It's my pc and media source amd I use headphones for all audio. My current everything headphones are the focal clears. Problem, I can't currently take advantage of Any of the surround sound options while streaming on...

If by summit fi you mean the best of the best, my guess is that this kind of show selects for people who have already been into hifi audio for years and have already gone through the stages of entry level to mid level high end audio. So for them the main draw is the crest of everest. I'm just...

I just put my order in for the focal clears, they are set to get more to ship out around mid October for 990. When I was there headphones.com seemed to have the most headphone options to try and I latched onto those as my next obvious upgrade from my ancient akg q701s. Hopefully you all got...

I checked that one out too as I was eying the sub 1k headphone segment but everything in that category kind of melted after I heard the focal clear. I wish I had brought my busted AKG q701s with a dangling headband to compare. Those were in a slightly lower price segment when I bought them...

For me it was a complete non issue, once I put on the headphones that was the main thing at the fore. If you need complete sound isolation with open backs you need an entirely different type of venue from what was setup.

I must be some sort of audio barbarian, my favorite set of headphones I listened to under 1500 were the focal clears.

Anyone know if there will be demos of those expensive 3d audio headphone setups? I remember there being some crazy device that handled the processing that could turn headphones like the sennheiser 820s into real world positional speaker simulators. The company is called smyth research...

I got my ticket a couple months back, my first time going to one of these. Any idea if this is only going to showcase ultra expensive headphones? I still want to sample stuff well under a grand.

Here is an example. What makes the sound of the NAME OF GOD sound best?

I'll try to wait. In the meantime, I'll try to find the modmic 5 to attach to my q701s as that seems to be the best sounding headset mic I've come across.

I posted another thread about potentially geting the audeze mobius for general purpose gaming and movies and music, but after diving deeper those don't seem like they match the sound quality of so many other things. So I am back to square one. I got sucked into an HD 660s vortex, and then...

https://www.amazon.com/AKG-Signature-Reference-Class-Premium-Headphones/dp/B004444O3W I've had those for years, the earpads wore out and I had to order an overpriced replacement pair from ebay as that was all that sold them. They still work, but I got those so long ago I figure there MUST be...

Ok guys, I'm new to the world of chi-fi, for a budget of 300 dollars, what can I get from a chinese brand that sounds far better than my current AKG q701s https://www.amazon.com/AKG-Signature-Reference-Class-Premium-Headphones/dp/B004444OFK

This was mostly about IEMs where often times people in China would get the same drivers from the factories that sell to established brands and put their own casing on. But it made me wonder... Is there some equivalent with full size headphones? Is there a Chinese headphone that rivals the...

FINALLY !!!!!!!!!!! I ordered the liberty 2 pros on October 7, suffered innumerable delays, but finally got them today, on the 31st, Hallows Eve. I did some preliminary tests, and honestly, they sound great. I get what people mean about the V shape sound signature, the mids are definitely...

I should have just waited and ordered the liberty 2 pros on amazon. Everyone and their mother here has gotten theirs.

damn Dear {name}, Thanks for pre-ordering Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro! While we are absolutely blown away by the response to Liberty 2 Pro, pre-orders have far exceeded our expectations. Unfortunately, that means that we’re sprinting to catch up and there may be a short delay in shipment. We...

Do we have HD800 quality sound there yet for a fraction of the price from some off brand? I'm still using some ancient ATH Q701 headphones I picked up around 5 years ago, I replaced the cable and earpads and they still work fine... but I wanted to know if anything was noticeably better than...

The ossic x   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/248983394/ossic-x-the-first-3d-audio-headphones-calibrated-t/description   and the kannon   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2053327139/kannon-headphones-accurate-bass-you-can-feel/description       It sounds like these would be...

It's been YEARS since I've looked into this and done some research, I'll dive in deeper later on, but as a jumping off point I wanted to hear what the state of the state was in the iem world?     I've only used two iems long term so far, the klipsch s4s (ultra comfortable and fit like a glove...

  Quote:     I went with the AKG Q701 models instead, primarily due to reports of exceptional mid range quality which never really wowed me on the dt770s.  I might still try the dt880s later on though, or the newer denons whenever they refresh them, I "think" I can drive 600 ohm cans...

ok you guys just sold me on the Q701s from AKG, I looked up the differences between the newer Q701 and K701 and it seems there is a bit more BASS on the updated versions.       Incidentally, I checked out the prices on the q701s at guitar center... they are out of their #$^king minds...

I ordered some dt880s, but the online store was out of stock so I cancelled and am trying to look around a bit more.  I've narrowed it down to two contenders now.    ...

  Quote:   Looks like my order was updated to show they did not have stock, so it's time to either find another source for dt880s or go with another model.  I basically want a sort of... mini beyerdynamic teslas, the 1200 dollar headphones... but for under 300 or as close to that as...