Tidal (Win) > ONIX Alpha XI1 > A90D > Moondrop S8 New Live Album from Bill Callahan. A good day.

Tidal > ONIX Alpha XI1 > A90D > SJY Audio Moonlight Easily beats the E70V as DAC/Preamp. Low - Ones and Sixes

Tidal \ USB Player Pro > Note 20 Ultra > ONIX Alpha XI1 (NOS Filter) > Hifiman Edition XS Drives the Edition XS in high gain without breaking a sweat at 50% and sounds simply sublime wth this headphone, too.

Did a lot more listening and am now considering to get a second one for desktop use...

Tidal Connect > WiiM Pro Plus (Coax) > E70V > A90D > TGXear Tantalus Mids focused, highly resolving, excellent timbre - the Tantalus are excatly the right gear for an acoustic gem like this one, which i stumbled upon pretty much accidentally.

No weird noises or popping sounds here, this doesn't sound good.

Tidal \ USB Player Pro > Note 20 Ultra > ONIX Alpha XI1 > D9200 Continuing my very extensive session with the Alpha XI1. D9200 is another great pairing, if not the best so far. Stunning detail and suprising three dimensionality despite of the latter not really being a strength of the D9200 with...

Tidal \ USB Player Pro > Note 20 Ultra > ONIX Alpha XI1 (NOS Filter) > Moondrop S8 I'm admittedly pretty sure that i've already posted the album here once, but this is more about the dongle. And anyways, "Night Reign" is really good, go listen to it if you haven't already and Jazz, Folk and a...

Got mine from Hifigo and first impressions are very positive. I'm just listening to "Painless" from Nilüfer Yanya, an album i love and know very well and this sounds not at all like it's just an emergency solution. Layering and especialy detail immediately stand out. I've read somewhere in this...

Adrienne Lenker - Bright Future (2024) What a gem of an album.

Tidal Connect > WiiM Pro Plus (Coax) > E70V > A90D > Moondrop S8

Tidal > E70V > A90D > Moondrop S8 Really shouldn't neglect the S8 so much, they still offer a finely balanced and highly detailed sound. Not the most "obviously fun" IEM, but rather honest to a fault. Good recordings are in exchange allowed to shine. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir

Afaik Quick left DCS years ago. But let's not turn this into a witch hunt anyways, the important thing is to make clear to DCS and other companies that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and bad for business.

If IEMs are an option, the FATtreq Scarlet Mini should definitely be taken into consideration...

Tidal Connect > WiiM Pro Plus (EQ +2.5 db LS 80 Hz; Coaxial) > E70V > A90D > SJY Audio Starry Night V1

Meh, a VP can be pretty much anything from glorified staffer to leading the company for all intents and purposes, but i'm not privy to DCS's formal and/or informal corporate structure, so you might be right. Anyways, extremely bad look from DCS and a very obvious stupid idea.

That VP guy seems to be on a very ill advised personal crusade and DCS isn't better in supporting it.

Tidal connect > WiiM Pro Plus (Coaxial) > E70V > A90D > Hifiman Edition XS Kind of funny, after some intial enthusiasm i couldn't really get into the Edition XS, some treble spicyness and timbre problems kept me from enjoying them so they were mostly lying around gathering dust. But when i...

So was there a recall or not? My dealer certainly made it seem like that was the reason he couldn't deliver despite of their website stating something else when i ordered. Anyways, seems like a giant f up for Meze, they'll probably lose a lot of sales as the Alba won't nearly be as hot anymore...

Tidal > WiiM Pro Plus (Optical) > Burson C3R > SMSL SP200 > D9200 Mabe Fratti - Sentir que no sabes

Not ideal, indeed. I'll think about this a bit more before i do anything, especially since i'm in principle quite happy with my chain right now, all my headphones seem to have gotten an upgrade with the addition of the WiiM (or probably rather the substraction of my PC...). But it always could...

Yes, less than optimal either way, especially since going to a dedicated streamer, even one as cheap as the WiiM, resulted in very audible improvement. Kind of unfortunate that coaxial and optical inputs on the Cyan 2 apparently aren't up to par with USB.

So, having been tempted to try R2R for some time now i'm very much attracted by the Cyan 2. However, i do already have a Burson Composer 3 Reference and a Topping E70 Velvet on hand. Realistically, with my primary amps being an A90 D and the amp of the C3R, can i expect a palable improvment or...

Tidal > WiiM Pro Plus (Coaxial) > E70V > A90D > IER-Z1R The Mysterines - Afraid of Tomorrows