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    The great DAP scam...

    An iPhone is as good as ANY DAC or DAP in the market, or am I wrong? Obviously, it can’t power high impedance headphones, but that’s the only limitation. I read the measurements of the lightning adapter and they’re as good as for the human ear as any other DAC on the planet.
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    Sure thing man, but being an Italian who lives in Spain, I choose wine over beer. Apart from joking, it’s already late here but I’ll surely search for it tomorrow and post here whatever I find.
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    Rob Watt's theoretical ramblings has been more than debunked in this very forum, with scientific arguments. What he really defends are a bunch of concepts with no relevance whatsoever for practical listening, starting with his theory of samples. It doesn't surprise that his DACs go from $400 to...
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    I don't even think that such people can't find the sound they really like. In my opinion it's the madness to try and "fine tune", "optimize", "improve" something (the sound) in a world where, alas, the optimal has already been reached way too many years ago (headphones, DAC, amplifiers, you name...
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    FLAC vs. 320 Mp3

    Is there public knowledge regarding what's the transparency's threshold for Ogg Vorbis? As far as I'm concerned, on Spotify I can't discern any difference from 192Kbps (with a pair of Sennheiser HD800s and another half dozen headphones I tried).
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    There is one more thing I would like to be added to this recap about the "advantages" of high resolution and 24 bits... Since all that was explained in your post is so easily defensible on a scientific level (which does not mean lots of people refuse to believe it), streaming services and the...
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    Tidal Lossless Streaming

    Boom: Bass Booster and Equalizer. It has a 8/16 band equalizer, supports Spotify, Tidal, music on the device and even on some clouds.
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    Why does Tidal sound better to my ears?

    I can’t hear any difference whatsoever using a pair of Focal Elegia on a DAP. @bigshot I am on a Mac, do you know a way for me to extract 30 seconds from both apps so that I can send the files for you to build a quick test?
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    But Neutron doesn’t have streaming so, for me, back to square one.
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    Well in this case a DAP is surely more practical, considering that I would also use an iPad 😬
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    As I previously said, the Sennheiser HD6x0 is mentioned a lot but in my opinion it’s by far the ‘less good’ (I’d say the worst) of my small collection. You said that the 800s are too bright and you have the 800 anyway. I’d be really curious to see how big is the difference between them, but I’m...
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    I want to reply also to another post where you talked about EQ. See, like you say almost no one knows how to use it, myself included. Let’s leave alone the fact that EQ is a blasphemy for a “real audiophile”, I am well past that. Let’s also leave alone the fact that my knowledge is nil: I could...
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    As a matter of fact, it’s a widely implemented idea. My iBasso DX220 has 8 filters and they change absolutely nothing, to the point that even in the reviews (where if you turn up or down the DAP, if has an effect on the ‘signature’) they mentioned the lack of any effect whatsoever. Let’s talk...
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    I don’t know man, I have HD650 and their veil is insufferable, they sound even muffled to my ears. We both agree that the performance per dollar of every high end is between bad and horrible. I paid 1250€ for my HD800s three years ago and I can’t say they weren’t worth it, but that’s 450€ less...
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    Testing audiophile claims and myths

    Yeah, spelling and also grammar. I really have a hard time reading things like ‘I've never once touted the ER3XR for staging not my fault many "audiophile" TOTL gear unfit for studio use which use netural stuff 98% of the time.’ Again, if the point of Blackwoof is to show that one can’t improve...
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