bandcamp, soundcloud, youtube - virtual milk crate diving paradise! Any Monstercat fans in here? throwback time ... Your list might be more accurate than you think because EDM tends to be very compressed with narrow dynamic range. I think most producers / djs are wary of the top end tiring...

Out of curiosity, mind sharing which tracks? Keep in mind that there are boatloads of sibilant recordings floating around. Synchronicity I from the Police is one. Another famous one is Jesus to a Child from George Michael. it's pretty common to leave the esses a little hot to make the track...

It's a little insane. This stuff is selling for about the same price as a Starbucks order. The last time we went to Burger King here in France with one of our adult sons, we unloaded 55 euros for burgers and shakes for the 3 of us. "The Variations would need to represent a 31x increase in...

I think the BT mode has quite a bit to do with it also. I notice that the battery life on my FiiO is a lot less on FLAC vs. AAC, which is the best I can wring out of my ancient Android phone. My spouse has been using these older AZ10's for about a month now and they seem to deliver the 6hr...

Ok, so I read that article, saw some of the other posts in the Discovery thread. It's a doozy! There's a lot of minutia and techno-blather in here that frankly puts me to sleep, but some of the conclusions there do resonate with my opinion about these 711 based graphs. Since I opened the can of...

fwiw, I've had pretty much the exact same learning curve with IEM. Around ... 15? working on 20? *gulp* years ago when I was blowing cash on porta-gear the tips were expensive and there wasn't really a lot of variation available. I recall buying cheapo pairs of Sony or Panasonic buds and hoping...

Sounds like a win. One of the app features I love about the E1DA PowerDAC dongle: "loudness". What this does is warm up the bottom end by increasing the gain at a specific frequency between 30 & 200 Hz without increasing gain on the rest of the curve. iFi's Zen Can has something similar with...

Grado SR60 or SR80, AKG240 - those are the classics. A dongle amp is a great investment and all you really need imo.

Agreed. It's also a good thing that nobody here has seen me on Friday nights down at the bar. Flashing my vintage Casio Calculator watch around and waltzing around in freshly brushed Hush Puppie moccasins. Talking up the barmaid about the timbre of my last rose brass horn. "Your husband is in a...

Jokes aside, and respectfully to yourself, all I see in his list of videos is vitriol, attacking other people, and attention seeking. I got through about 2 minutes of the PS1 video when he starts ranting and throwing a tantrum like a child. Yeahhhhh I'm out. I'm preoccupied this evening by...

"master"? ... I count three rather tasteless clickbait video titles crapping on KZ products. Regrettably, I find this young lad's litany of negative and conceited opinions to be humorless and unfortunate. I blame his parents, which are undoubtedly about the same age as me. *laughs in Al Bundy*

1) :beerchug: 2) swimming out a bit further in the cognitive dissonance. so the hit and slam is less, but the tuning itself is the same. That's can't mean it's bad?! If so, then all of KZ's BA sets are also bad. The BA10 is inferior to ZEX Pro on the bottom end (edit: for me, anyway. it's...

The point is that a few dB in EQ should be relatively similar to observed differences as measured on the audio-fetish doll. If we're saying that isn't true, I won't believe another word on this whole forum.

I agree about the buzzer 'n BA tune on these 100%. I can also buy that ZEX Pro are dirty dog water compared to the Delci on the whole. But the bass tuning, according to the graph, is almost exactly the same as the Delci. So why is the bass tuning bad? Are you saying that the filter kills...

Have you seen those 3D waterfall plots? I'm not sure if these are the missing link or another source of data to be misinterpreted and abused :D

...area under the curve seems to be between 10~11kHz, where it intersects again with the Tanchjim's peak coming in later around 12kHz. That is *counts lines* about 10dB higher than Harman for CRA+, and *checks again* 15 dB higher than Harman for the Tanchjim. These two extremes between these...

...IEM? Again, I see maybe 2dB difference here in the upper mids. Isabellae is trading blows for treble peaks and troughs. Why is one really better than the other, after averaging out the experience across all genres? This is why I say the graphs don't mean that much to me. *shrug* cheers all

indeed, my first unedited reply was made half-asleep haha :sweat_smile: Yeah definitely, and great tip on the short cable adapter over fixed. In the end I suppose the 4.4 isn't really that much bigger than the standard 3.5 TRS/SE plugs. I need to rewire my OG Grados SR80s (been saying that for...

Eep! Thanks for chiming in; I wrongly assumed that the device had a similar setting to use the same adapter. For the Pentaconn users: is there any reason this can't be used? It seems like as long as the TRRS maps cleanly from the 4.4 -> 2.5 that it wouldn't be a problem to the amplifier. I'm...

I feel you. 10 years ago poetry is all we had in this hobby! Ribbon drivers and dynamics can have an identical curve and still sound very different. Bellsing and Knowles undoubtedly sound different, but I must admit I haven't really heard any since my last set of Etymotic over 20yrs ago. The...

inferior how? the graphs don't really mean anything to me Edit: that looks curt/short but it wasn't intended to be 😂 I'm more interested in transients and other technicals than FR. CRA's curve is good ootb and has reasonably good technicals that had room for improvement. My main hangup...

yep - it's a 2.5mm balanced like the PowerDAC, but I'd think that E1DA's 2.5 -> 3.5mm adapter would work just fine, as it does on the PDCv2 (nope! see below posts) I do slightly prefer using balanced cables; for IEM and the concept of small mobile devices the 2.5mm form factor is perfect IMO...

I was catching up in this thread and saw this comment and had to laugh because the same thing happened to me! one of the channels dropped out and I kind of panicked and was immediately heart broken thinking I broke it. IIRC I hit the "restore factory settings" option in HP Toy and I haven't had...

...to them (whether it's marketed as a V shape is really more of an indication about the price and fooling successively wealthier buyers) and then *bam* there you are, just like it was 1987 all over again, rocking a fresh copy of Tango in the Night on your cousin's newly upgraded Alpine in the...