Recent content by bartus
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Ultimate Ears + Astell & Kern Ultimate Bundle Deal
Apparently his dreadlocks don't combine to well with the memory wire? Ps love my UERM's to bad this deal was not available 1,5 year back.- bartus
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors Review
Headphones are transceivers like speakers, record players are source components so I don't think it is clear what you really want. If you want to you can use headphones with a high end vinyl setup as well.- bartus
- Post #559
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
What you also should check is if your problem applies to all the ports of the hub. A lot of hubs have a poor port layout based on chips that are wired in series. Debian based deveices often have problems with these as well, some of the ports would work some won't. I can imagine that a simmilar...- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
I didn't want to sound to direct or harsh at the beginning (as we Dutch people can be) but now I'm interested what do you think as an electro-mechanical engineer that amber is? Cause I can't think of any structural application in industrial design were amber could be applied other than for pure...- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
I suppose you mean an amber colored rod?!? Besides I suppose that it is not a question of saving money to use these switches, otherwise they would have used this type of switch for on/off as well. Other brands like Ray Samuels Audio use similar switches for products in higher price ranges.- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
That would be silly, You can't feed a DAC with a DAC output, so the answer is no. There is definetly DSP in the CCK to extract the digital sound singal (otherwise we could use a normal lightning cable) but this wil stay in the digital domain.- bartus
- Post #2,482
- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
My ipad 1 with the latest ios supported for that deveice (4 or 5 I guess) works fine with the c5d as well.- bartus
- Post #2,469
- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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Pictures of Your Portable Rig (part XVI)
@Indieman don't get me wrong I have nothing against compressed files or Spotify in general and I realy enjoy music browsing/ discovery on the platform. But to my ears the highest resolution available on Spotify (320 kb/s if I remember ok)does not sound as good as a home made 192 kb/s mp3 rip...- bartus
- Post #11,483
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Pictures of Your Portable Rig (part XVI)
I realy don't mean to troll but how did you manage to get Spotify to sound great?- bartus
- Post #11,479
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
I don't have the Apogee One or the HD580 but based on my experiences I would make this a reasonably definite NO. I have the Apogee Mini DAC in my home/speaker setup for the last 7 or 8 years now and if Apogee kept up their game just slightly it will outclass the c5d and Fiio e17. Furthermore...- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors Review
So I finally jumped the gun. Long time ago I posted the question in this tread which dap /dac I should use with my UERMs since I was not fully convinced of the sound I was getting. As a temporarily and low profile solution I bought a ipod nano. Since I had good experience with the Fiio E6 I...- bartus
- Post #526
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
Could someone please confirm if this is a good match with UERM's?!?- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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JDS Labs C5/C5D (pg96) portable amp/amp+DAC
Hi has anyone tried the C5D with UERM's or can someone tell me if this would be a good combination? Source would mainly be a iphone 4 or 5 on flight modus.- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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Pictures of Your Portable Rig (part XVI)
And are you going to enlighten us with a opinion based on solid arguments or are you just taunting??- bartus
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear