I've switched to Qobuz. I was wondering why my sound quality seemed to be lacking, and tried Qobuz instead of Tidal because someone posted here earlier that they think "it just sounds better". Turns out they are right, even just at their "CD quality" setting, which is the same as I was using in...

I am totally in-love with my DAC-amp setup which is a Schiit Modi Multibit and Magni Heresy. It's the only setup which has yielded truly crisp and transparent high frequencies. So it would have to be able to connect to the Schitt Modi, and run Tidal. Here's why I use Tidal. It gives me...

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So the clearest-sounding headphones for me (without exceeding $400) remain the Sony V600, now that I have found parametric EQ settings which correct for the over-emphasized low end. Tried the AT-R70x and found that they have way too much emphasis in the upper low-range. I had to abandon the...

There HE400i's are atrocious; I can't take them. So muddy. I went back to my tried-and-true Sony V600's and I can hear so much detail that the Hifimans were covering up. Anxiously await the Audio-Technicas.

OK I'm actually enjoying the HE400i's quite a bit now. I'm using Wavelet (EQ app), and have the "bass tuner" set to the maximum cutoff frequency of 270 Hz, the "post-gain" to -5 dB, and in the EQ I have 300 Hz and 600 attenuated 4 dB. The highs are coming through pretty nicely but sound a little...

OK I'm no longer thrilled with the HE400's. Someone on a different thread suggested Audio-Technica ATH-R70X; I have ordered them. They are apparently discontinued though I found them on headphones.com.

Thank you, I want to give them a try as I'm not totally thrilled with the treble on the HE400i's anymore. They seem to be discontinued, but found them on headphones.com for $349.99.

After finally realizing what others on here have tried to point out to me is indeed true, that the Sony V600's have too much emphasis in the low end, I went on a bit of a spree to purchase and audition several different sets based on other posts here. One post was a reply to me and suggested I...

As I'm about to post in a different thread, after trying several different sets, including the aforementioned HD-650 and Sony MDR-7506 (which turned out to be utter crap with an atrocious emphasis near 2k), I settled on, and in-fact have found no other comparison, with the HifiMan HE400I planars...

You are correct: after doing a bit of reading, I realized that lossy compression like Ogg does not preserve bit depth, and it might not even preserve sample rate (I'm unclear on that one). As for Schiit Multibit DACs, I was speaking from research I had done based on their "marketing claims."...