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Hugo and Tidal 360
If you use an optimized PC Tidal sounds almost Ah, sorry! There's a section in the app called 360. If you hit the search button and scroll past the genres, it's right there.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Hugo and Tidal 360
Tidal is a music app. I think it's $10/month for Master quality music at 192 quality. The regular quality sounds great with a mobile network but the Master quality only works well with WiFi. 360 is Master quality and is almost binaural. Very impressive coming from the internet. Not a big...- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Hugo and Tidal 360
I tried my cheap Motorola, a first gen Hugo, and Tidal 360 today. Wow. This is streaming? Oh my God. There isn't much difference between the different Hugo gens at less than DSD quality, right? Better to ride my first gen till it quits? I've already had to replace the board.- chowmanfu
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HifiMAN HE-6 Planar Magnetic Headphone
HE-6 is the weirdest headphone. Strap it to a speaker amp and it is all beauty. Custom cables are necessary. The Chinese owner might not have designed it that way. It might be pure accident. It doesn't matter. Give the HE-6 power. It behaves like an American muscle car. Through a headphone...- chowmanfu
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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HifiMAN HE-6 Planar Magnetic Headphone
I'm now pushing the HE-6 with a Pioneer SX-1250 through its headphone jack. A forum member recommended the Pioneer because it could power the HE-6 without using speaker taps. I bought the Pioneer because I had gold-plated silver headphone cables I did not want adapted for speakers. I am using a...- chowmanfu
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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LG V20 Sound Quality
You need a broken cable. I use one that breaks into XLR and mini. I plug the broken mini in first to activate exterior mode, then plug in the main cable. It doesn't activate the high-mode, but activates the mid. If you want high, you must root the phone.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Found the movie for you. 'City of the Living Dead' (1980) by Lucio Fulci. He also did Zombi 2 (with the shark fight).- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Oh yeah! I can't remember the title. I'm at work, I can find it when I get home. It's a dope movie. The bastards teleport behind you and palm your skull. Squish.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Man, you've got a lot of stuff! Are you really Rob Zombie? That zombie picture you posted looked like it was from that Italian movie where a corpse battles a shark. That's the only zombie that tops the teleporting ones from the other Italian movie. For me, the gold silver tamed the treble...- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Thanks for your help! Does the HE converter device disturb the sound any? I already have a reference gold-plated silver headphone cable. If I could just use speaker cables and the converter it would be so much easier than buying a new cable with an extra meter length just to reach the amp' s rear.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Cool, thanks for confirming. I was gonna hold on till I heard the gear till I bought a new cable. What do you think of Cardas clear headphone cable?- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Rob Zombie? Is that you? I see your vintage receiver list. I just picked up a Pioneer SX-1250. It's supposed to push the HE6 from headphone jack. If you want, I'll let you how it goes!- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Selling PureDAC, PureUSB, HE-6, and possibly Sennheiser IE800
Man, that's an old post. I just bought a 160W vintage amp to push my HE6 so I'm gonna keep them. I'm even getting the HE6 professionally modded... I'm sorry, bro! You're a couple years too late.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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LG V20 Sound Quality
V20 has a replaceable battery. You can give it four times more life. The V20 is better than the V30 because the V30 has fixed battery. You can buy a V20 from Asia, dual SIM, and unlocked. No bull with the rooting.- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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LG V20 Sound Quality
Bad programming. Try Linux straight-up. Hard to configure. Sounds better. MPD is very good. Opus programmers are Koreans learning an English-based OS. They have to learn an Englishman's idea of mathematics. When I was learning code I found that my ideas were much easier to translate into...- chowmanfu
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear