If high impedance only adds voltage, it would just increase volume and noise floor. People usually use the extension or impedance adapter for gear with low ohms and low sensitivity, since high impedance mode wouldn't naturally kick in. Hifiman's he400se would be the perfect example. Yes, you're...

I use normal. For the noticable battery dip I got, didn't really notice higher quality. Also, I think I remember someone saying that high impedance only affects voltage, so basically just louder. My volume is usually between 50~60db, so your mileage may vary if you listen louder. I have better...

It could be contributing, but the g7 thinq's quad dac always made slight noise to the point where people cranked their volume to check that it worked on rooted phones. The noise is only worsened because the ms5 is low impedance, though I find the hiss ignorable after a bit. While I was pretty...

I picked up a g7 thinq as a daily driver after I did my review and it does the job. Slight bit of noise, but it's totally passable. I've heard $100+ dongle dacs that passively create more noise than this. Also, I talked with someone that was driving it with a probably weaker lg v20, so I don't...

Ah, I see. It does seem like they are taking a similar approach to when they acquired Elgato, though only time will tell if anything changes.

This post by drop's CEO says that all of drop got acquired by corsair, not just their keyboard division.

Yeah, gen 2 is amazing with a solid tube amp. Then they made gen 3 32ohms so tubes can't help...

Beyer T1 gen 3. For how decent gen 2 and dt1990 was, this was really disappointing to me. I remember asking a buddy of mine who worked there if a mid bass eq was applied to this. He looked at me, stared for a cool second, and slowly shook his head with a funny grin.

Yup, and I thought I was going insane when testing leaks. I would've loved to see it as an open back though. Also, kudos to them for not making it a boring flat panel.

Ugh, this is a bit too much for my brain. I was here to talk about shiny audio stuff, and I don't know what's happening at this point. Hidizs’ timing for the release was very unfortunate. They had a two-year gap between the B2 Dusk and B3’s release, and any other time in between would've been...

I'm not sure why Hidizs is getting so much flak over this. For a first time organising this kind of event, I think they did an excellent job and it's quite clear that they are looking improve. I would've liked a pre-production model so changes could happen, but I see that it wasn't what they...

Welp, my IRL life is an absolute mess right now. I was supposed to post this on reddit but that got compromised so I'm posting it here. Still, review is up and later is better than never: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/hidizs-ms5-dark-angel.26300/reviews#review-30704 I think I'm right in the...

I'm writing my review right now, and for how umimpressed I was with female vocals, it's amazing how natural male vocals sound on these. It just makes my review messier and my thoughts more complicated...