You have a sweet collection of iems, I'm jealous ;-)

Honestly, I hate the principle of EQ'ing. If I need neutrality, I'll go with something neutral. If I want a frequency response that resembles the Himalaya's I'll choose something colored. The basics of an EQ are quite the opposite of the word "audiophile" as some artifacts will be added to all...

The M50X sounds very aggressive with some harshness in the highs, not sure if heavy metal will sound that good through it

What I learned and tried so far, the PM3 is very source and amp dependant. It does have one of the most beautiful bass I ever heard from a portable pair of headphones, very tight and punchy when the song calls for it, but surely not a basshead heaven. Everything is very well balanced and gives...

Get a pair of Jaybirds X2 for exercise and keep your precious Shure and more valuable iems for your bedroom

Yep but modders are like wild grass. There's always a solution somewhere ! Officially the PM3 pads are NOT user replaceable but people found ways to do it

Impedance adapter through an amp will do the trick but not on a dap. Whether I use it on the i5, my AK240 or DX80, the sound will be thin and lifeless

I don't like the modular dac of the G5 because it is way too expensive for an accessory. I hope that LG won't get into such thing again

Will you be switching to 1 dac only when you can use them all? Sounds like : I will eat only chips, not the steak !

These have been specially made for musicians, such as the entire SE line up. There are better solutions for sports usage with sweatproofing

I'm curious about the variant of this dac as ESS 9018 Hifi is an 8 channels dac and the portable version is only 2 channels. The reason why ESS created a portable dac is to optimize battery usage on small and non dedicated dap devices such as smartphones. I'm not too optimistic about this new...

The sound DOES DROP on lossless and much more on Hi-res and DSD. Even with Aptx things haven't got fixed yet, but we can expect better in the coming years.

The PM3 pairs very well with idevices, the mids are fabulous up to 8khz which means that piano and strings sounds very natural and revealing, voices are top notch and one of the highlights of the Oppo

It's not about drivability but pairing issues, further to my understanding and what I noticed so far, the DX80 is very similar to the AK240 and can sound very bad with some headphones on the bright side. I don't know much about the EL8's tonality but experienced a very anemic sounding with 3...