Just bought a refurbished (aka unsold unit they could not get rid of) L1000 for the equivalent of $220 usd and waiting for it to arrive. My plan is to use as a cool desktop amp with my iems and easier to drive headphones. Ironically for my intended use this item has basically been made...

That is sad news @Questyle . Will the battery for the QP1R work? I see one posted on Ali Express https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003771119184.html.

@devilboy Can you advise where you ordered the clear top for the CM12 Master? I love my CM12M because it pairs well with all my headphones. Also, I use the 5Ghz feature as an input from my SHB2 Master dock. Unless Questyle includes the 5Ghz option on other products (highly unlikely) I will...

Really looking forward to a new DAP if that indeed is the product being teased, but still love my QPM. Was very surprised to find out that despite its modest power ratings it drives the difficult to power DCA Stealth quite nicely. Yes, I have to crank the volume up high and use the balanced...

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Has anyone tried the Absolute with the DCA Stealth? So far its an excellent match with the LCD5 and T+A Solitaire P. Even after over a year of ownership, my Absolute grows on me everyday and I honestly think it's close to being the perfect desktop amp for me. Used in this manner the...

It's neither. It's decent sounding for the price if used wired. Generally linear with a lower mid bass hump that may be pleasing to some and not to others. I have never tried the wireless function, but understand that there are problems when used in this manner. The lack of support makes...

They have an upper bass bump that is likely triggering this. Other than that I quite like them.

Can anyone who has ordered a leather case please share a link? For some reason my Google searches for this are coming up empty ...

Thanks @Shanling !

Very curious to hear how the em7 compares to the em5 soundwise. I recently bought the em5 for use in a second system without any expectations with respect to performance and was pleasantly surprised at how well it performs. If the em7 perforns on a much higher level I would consider it as a...

As someone stated before, these are very devisive. Some will like it and some won't and that's OK. One thing they are not (despite their name) is a closed version of the Sundara. Anyone expecting that is likely to be dissapointed. Clearly you are! For me the Sundara Open lacked bass and...

Actually they appear to change more with program material and chain than a lot of other headphones I've tried. Both impressions could be correct.

I've only had these for a week, running them off a Questyle QPM, Shanling EM5 and Bakoon HPA-21 and I must say I quite like them. The reported (and audible) tuning deviations from the Harman target and open Sundara had me worried when I was buying, but those worries were misplaced. The bass...

What did you prefer about the Expanse? Going strictly by the graphs the Expanse should be a warmer with a bit sharper attack to notes, but of course graphs don't tell the whole story. Which is more detailed?

How do they differ in sound?

So has anyone compared the LCD5 to the DCA Expanse?

@Questyle great to hear you are recovering. Also great to see Questyle ramping up support and starting to push out updates again. I have done the update and have not experienced any problems so far. The only glitch I encountered was I had to adjust the name of the update file to ensure the...

The more I listen to the LCD5 the more I have come to like its presentation and appreciate the subtleties of the stock tuning. One thing I've noticed is I can listen at a much lower level than most of my other headphones without the presentation becoming flat and boring or losing detail...

It's not my intention to get into a cable debate here, but I know what I hear. I've been in this hobby for a long time and know that the price and claimed effect of many cables puts them directly in the camp of snake oil. It also makes any real investigation of their impact difficult...

Not surprising really. Audeze has a house sound and had garnered a lot of followers who liked that type of signature. The LCD-5 is about as far from that tuning as you can get and requires a synergistic chain (and apparently EQ) to really show what it can do. Very bold/risky move for Audeze...

Alteady love the rollicking nature of this thread! I actually did not need or want 5db of EQ ... just needed it opened up slightly as I said in my post. The cable did that (or perhaps the stock cable was defective). Whatever the reason I'm happy now and am surprised how little a change it...

Recently picked up a LCD-5 and was initially dissapointed using the stock copper cable. Iˋm probably just repeating what has already been stated in the thread many times over, but the problem in my opinion is that the stock copper cable cuts down the treble too much relative to the midrange and...

Thanks! Very tempted ...

Any info on pricing?