Recent content by stefu
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The Fiio X5 Thread
I have Sandisk 128GB from US Amazon, bought in November 2015. I had no issues with it. IIRC I formatted it to FAT32 on my Macbook, transferred files and it just worked in X5 (gen 1). Cheers!- stefu
- Post #18,805
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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New custom IEM company - Custom Art: discussion, review, and impressions thread
To conclude this matter: 1. I didn't receive any payment back yet. jmills8 has some 'technical issues' with that. I trust he will workaround them and pay back to me. 2. @jmills8 you agreed to my offer and provided payment details and then you decided to sell to someone else and didn't take...- stefu
- Post #2,912
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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New custom IEM company - Custom Art: discussion, review, and impressions thread
Hi vince741, FYI, I talked with jmills8 via PM and he agreed to sell them to me and I sent him a payment today about 3pm (UK time zone). jmills8, please explain!- stefu
- Post #2,900
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Custom Art – Music Two – Appreciation/Discussion/Impressions/Review Thread
It depends how you look at it. I have both HF5 and Music Two. If you compare M2 to HF5, M2 is much more fun, more bass and slightly more treble, more forward. In my opinion it is a big improvement over HF5. However, you can get much more bass heavy earphones. I listen variety of music...- stefu
- Post #33
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Custom Art – Music Two – Appreciation/Discussion/Impressions/Review Thread
Per request of one of the forum member I did some more testing of M2, specifically, how siblant it is. I was suggested to use Lisa Simone 'All is well' album - as an example of siblant voice. I used Gogole Music All Access on Macbook Pro with Dragonfly 1.0 as a source, with M2 connected...- stefu
- Post #30
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Custom Art – Music Two – Appreciation/Discussion/Impressions/Review Thread
(I wanted to send this out much sooner, but it felt through cracks) I did a quick comparison between iPod Classic 160gb and Fiio X5 with Music Two. Conclusion is: you need an amp for iPod classic. Not because of not enough power, but because of high output impedance, which harms highs. So...- stefu
- Post #29
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Custom Art – Music Two – Appreciation/Discussion/Impressions/Review Thread
When I have some time, I'll compare how they sound with my iPod Classic and iPad Mini vs Fiio X5. Nowadays I use my M2 mostly with X5 or Sansa Clip+. I don't have X1 or any other iDevices, but in general, I'd recommend to check first how M2 performs with your current devices - I used them with...- stefu
- Post #15
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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New Teac HA-P50-B Portable DAC Amp
Does it work with Nexus 5 over USB with stock media player and google play music? I was able to use USB DAC with Nexus 5 only with USB Audio Player, which defeats the purpose as the only advantage of N5 over my other players it ability to stream from online services.- stefu
- Post #108
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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AudioQuest Dragonfly Review : Affordable, Outstanding, Tiny DAC / Amp
Can you tell more about what kind of distortion it is? If it is digital it may be because mplayerX is sending data with different sample rate than your Dragonfly is set to. Open "Audio Midi Setup" it is in /Applications/Utilities Choose DragonFly from the side panel and play with Format...- stefu
- Post #1,938
- Forum: Computer Audio
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Custom Art – Music Two – Appreciation/Discussion/Impressions/Review Thread
I’m a happy owner of Music Two for about two month now and I think it is time to write something about them. Initially I ordered Music One as an alternative to bulky and expensive Roxannes, as an everyday IEMs for walkaround and gym. However, later on I decided to change my order to Music Two...- stefu
- Post #13
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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TOPPING NX1 Portable Headphone Amplifier Impressions Thread
Hi, I bought NX1 of ebay some time ago after reading good opinion about it. I wanted to find out how does it compare with my old Little Dot MkI+ which has more power, but is also quite old and noisy. In general I wasn't disappointed. It is not a superstar, but it definitely punch above it’s...- stefu
- Post #941
- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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7th Gen (2009) iPod Classic 160 SQ
I think we reached 'good enough' in sound quality quite a long time ago - that is, good enough for majority of population and any investments in this area gives relatively small improvements when compared to other aspects of entertainment devices. I wish more manufacturers recognise that there...- stefu
- Post #526
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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AudioQuest Dragonfly Review : Affordable, Outstanding, Tiny DAC / Amp
I compared Dragonfly 1.0 with Modi both with Little Dot MkIV and HD650. In this setup, DF as a DAC only sounded almost the same as Modi. I'd expect Magni to be better than DF with demanding headphones, but I've never tested it. I used Mac Mini as a source. I don't know how much different 1.2 is.- stefu
- Post #1,918
- Forum: Computer Audio
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The Fiio X5 Thread
Yes, Sandisk for now is the only option. There is a number of fake products around, but as of today, to my best knowledge, Sandisk is the only brand offering 128gb MicroSD cards. For now I decided to go with 2x 64GB. I'm using Sandisk Ultra which are very reasonably priced and they are...- stefu
- Post #11,628
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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TOPPING NX1 Portable Headphone Amplifier Impressions Thread
Quote: No, for this you need DAC, NX1 is amp and you need to plug it into headphone out or line out (if your device is equipped with one).- stefu
- Post #651
- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps