Not so fast, the resulting benchmarks when comparing 660 vs 665 a bit all over the place and it depends highly on the use case of the comparative benchmark tests used. When you look closely in the test results, it is not so easy to pick out a clear winner here, they are very close overall and...

Hilarious! :laughing:... I want to change my sound signature to have more Spain, but less Portugal, and Italy could also need a slight push. But Germany is, as always, way to detailed, whereas the Netherlands are too flat and boring. Austria though shines with a lot of timber! :grin:

Yes, I fully agree. Physical buttons and a "hold" switch/slider. These were and still are very good interfaces in terms of usability. You can have dry or wet fingers, doesn't matter, you can operate in darkness and without looking on a lit screen, and physical buttons don't care if you wear...

For me the leather case solved the problem... and yes, I found it also a bit annoying that I constantly press one of the three side buttons when I, metaphorically speaking, "just look at the device". They were way too easy to trigger. (but still better than any of these touch sliders on...

The Divinus Velvet Wide Bore arrived today. Didn't test them out yet, but wanted to share some pics, especially compared to the standard Velvets:

John Butler aka John Butler Trio is totally worth diggin'! >> A genre crossover of Folk-Rock, Blues-Rock, Funk-Rock, Reggae, Bluegrass, and Roots-Rock from down under. It's steel string guitar heavy with lots of drive... simply fantastic. On his early album, at least listen to "Ocean", an epic...

I know at least the Android based one can display lyrics, the Mango OS player I don't know.

If iBasso plays it well, then they already should have plans on updating the 260 to Android 13. The DX260 is only 6 months on the market and in a few months, after the DX180 hype train left the station and the iBasso devs have more time and resources, it would be a good timing for an update. I...

This evening I needed something to totally beam me into spheres of ethereal endlessness.... ...who needs drugs when you can listen to this:

Solved the cracking noise problem for good. After many hours of trying out everything, because even when playing around with buffer sizes, still the cracking sound appeared, but much less often, so I was too quick to state that I solved it earlier. Now, the final suspect was identified and it...

Very good decision :thumbsup: ...and it's not that you decided to keep old garbage, the DX170 is still to be taken very seriously in it's class. I personally like what iBasso does with its DAPs.

Sorry, nope, It will take some more weeks I guess. But I'm on it.

Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley (25th Anniversary Edition) >> She was an incredible artist, gone way too early! and this is her good bye album, and an incredibly good recording, too!

Oh man, thanks again for this perfect hint! Of course I installed the Topping drivers with the DX9 connected 🤦‍♂️ ... a classical user problem :laughing:. Today I'll try these drivers again with the correct setup method. Let's see.

For me, I unfortunately don't have a ZMF headphone yet, sorry. ...but I listen right now with the DCA E3, which is known that it's a demanding headphone when it comes to source gear, and I'm happy to report that together with the DX260, it's an utmost joy. Sure, I have to crank up the volume...

I'm with both devices on high gain, but in the end I'm happy that my DX260 can drive the E3 absolutely sufficiently. And otherwise, the E3 are really wonderful cans, I'll keep them for a while.

So, now the next head scratcher with the E3... How can it be that with my 7 Watt Topping DX9 I have to go between -45 to -15 dB to reach a medium to comfortably loud enough playback, but with my iBasso DX260, which has max. 1 Watt it is exactly the same region, 50-80 of 100... and it sounds...

My journey continues... but first, thanks so much for your many tips, tricks and suggestions! Awesome, and it proves that the audio community is one special kind, never saw, for so many years in any forum, so constantly helpful people. Cordially thanks again! :beerchug: ...these sporadic...

Gracias! :beerchug: In the end, I am still surprised how powerhungry the E3 is, when you have a really potent headphone amp at your hands like the DX9, and still end up nearly maxing it out.

Thanks for the explanation! Makes sense somehow. ...but what's the value of 25.11 again? Sorry, just want to learn a bit^^

I know, thanks, I work in that field accidentally, but I'm not an electronic engineer obviously :wink: I was not referring to dB itself but to the underlying power scaling which is most likely linear and not log, because you can hear the clicks of the solid state amplifier units switching...

-99 dB is near zero output loudness. 0 db is max. So we have a 0-100 scale in -dB units which can be translated, step wise, in % and then reversed. -15 dB would be 85% of power used according to my understanding. When you look at the spec sheet of the DX9, it outputs: 10000mW × 2 @16Ω THD+N<1%...

Topping DX9 > DCA E3 whats on: to my taste, one of the greatest albums of all time: Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Got mine today. OOTB impression, yes, they indeed sound pretty open, but I don't want to go into any more detail since I only have a few hours on them... ...but holy moly, they need some serious juice and they truly need the provided headroom of the rather powerful Topping DX9, I have to crank...

They are forced to and bound to forum rules to start at page 1... you have to earn your credit :laughing: