Get roon and use almost any device you like. Even your sonos units. Caveat: You need to use tidal as a streaming service.

Pro use means deigned and built to pro requirements as they see the pro market, in contrast to hifi and or highend users. Lake people has product lines dedicated to the consumer market, and it seems they are better suited to meet your requirements, imho. The most flexible one of these when it...

Yes, you need to open it when you want to switch gain. Not designed for your use case. It pro equipment. Get something else.

And as to reviewers qualification, a quote from the comments section: Bruno Rodriguesvor 2 Jahren Hi. Lake people does have Low Gain, Medium Gain and High Gain. The thing is you have to open the box and change the jumper position. Z Reviewsvor 2 Jahren +Tony Roscas Yeah I mention that in the...

Don't think this would ever happen. These are built to very tough german regulatory standards and used in studios all over the world. But why not ask lake people directly an share your findings?

Why not try Roon? Comes at a price, but it works.

Communication between the drive and jriver is handled by the operating system, which should take care of balancing a load in case this has to be balanced. Which should not be the case if an application reads or writes files. > drive failure -or- > invalid file structure, which might be due to...

The measuring equipment used is designed for hearing aids in the band between 100 and 10000 hertz. that might explain the cutoff at 10k.

Quote:   Haven't had a chance to audition the Meridian, but the design ogf the headphone amp was deeply flawed in the first production run. Output impedance was 40 ohms which means it is not usable for multidriver ba's and low impedance headphones. They changed the design in the meantime...

How does the MacBook look like now?

Quote: You may want to install the components for kernel streaming and wasapi in foobar. Once you've done this, you will be able to use these output modes with dragonfly. 

Anyone knows where to get that beautiful headphone stand shown in the Judes opening post? Have not seen it before. 

Seems the DT-1350 does not fit your head. When placed properly on my head the DT1350 bass does not improve any more when using additional pressure. Also I found the bass far superiour in depth, impacts and quantity to my K701. So maybe you are just not made for each other.    Quote:  

Well, they prefer the monster beats pro and the DT990 to the Z1000, claiming those to have a more linear response. Go figure.    Quote: