I am eyeing Shure for my first closed back BT ANC headphone, drawn mainly by its premium build quality and EQ capability. What is really holding me back is the issue of sound signature changing under max ANC setting, according to measurements posted earlier in the thread. Now, I know that this...

I tried these today at a shop out of my mp3 Player. The bass was definetly boosted at least 4-5 dB but it was not that overwhelming. The be honest when I cut the bass down the mids and highs were mighty good, the tonality felt Natural with maybe just a slight hint of emphasis on sibilants...

In all three cases the general signature is a consequence of their design principles.   Balanced armatures are by design very effective over a relatively narrow range of frequencsies, which makes them rolled off at both extremes with articulate midrange. Of course this signature would apply...

Yes, if you haven't shipped both units to JDS yet then you can test them directly with mic input, no headphones in between. Line in would be tiny bit better, because mic in will probably get overloaded by a 2V RMS signal, so you would have to significantly reduce the recording volume but thats...

The scale on the left is very squished, could you write what kind of difference there is in dB?   If we assume that ODAC has consistent quality there are two variables that I can think of. Firstly, your ODACs differ in grounding, one has a separate enclosure and connects to Asgards enclosure...

I'm not very familiar with R2R DACs, I only the general working principle. Difference between resistor pairs seems relatively questionable, for example you use two resistors to set gain in a voltage feedback circuit and there usually are no problems with channel imbalance resulting from any...

Two things mixed up here I think. First, the overall lower noise achievable with "24 bit" chips is possible because of... higher bit depth, meaning that the number of bits that constitute the package allows for higher dynamic range (from the simple fact that there are 24 of them), that much for...

24 bit DAC will "use" all 16 bits, that is it will accept data incoming in packagaes of 16 bits. The actual resolution you get at the output, as ClieOS has written, depends on the noise performance of the cicuit as a whole.   Could you write a little more about these "paths" used for other...

Every electrical component would have it's own noise but in practice, as you see noise specified often below -100dB it's usually a non-issue. Noise can also be induced by poor PCB layout (bascially electromagnetic interference between copper traces, or some capacitance between signal/power trace...

"Merely" 20 bits of resolution could kill you. 13 or 14 is more than enough. 24 bit DAC can process 24 bit word data lenght, this 20 bit refers to noise floor - if processing 24 bit data it can achieve "only" 20 bits of accuracy (the rest is covered by noise, although it has to be mentioned that...

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Thank you, much appreciated.

I remember a post from O2 thread at diyaudio where the deisgner of The Wire said he could easily tell his amp apart from O2 with HE-6. The reponse was that O2 was not designed to drive such inefficient and power hungry headphones - that these were simply the 1 or 2% that need a more capable amp...

Tube, solid state, with and without feedback - headphone amplifiers come in all kinds of designs, shapes, and sizes. In this hobby there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all as everyone has his or her favorite. While there are many highly competitve units on the market we all sometimes think...

You can get funny results from playing with phase response settings. Theoretically it should not change anything as that would be determined by the filter in you DAC but, to my astonishment, if set, for example, minimum phase filtering, then you will get signal with no pre-ringing, great way to...