Thanks for the recommendation.   The FC cable is far inferior to the HF cable (quite obvious to me when I was testing it with my Astell & Kern AK100 DAP)    I'm now using a Hong Kong made cable called SwanAudio SA-08.  Hits the sweet spot before breaking in already.   I do agree...

Quote: I did exactly that, and was surprised that they can sound so different.

Bought this babe today.  Totally surprised by its price/quality ratio.   Spacious sound, great dynamics.  Now running pink noise (is that the way to go?) to break it in.

Hi everyone.  Newbie here.   I've used this DAP for about half a year now, it's been serving me well with my UE900 IEM. So yesterday I went and tried a couple of OTE's with this baby, namely, Sony MDR-R1, Sennheiser Momentum, Denon AH-D950, Ultrasone Pro 900, etc.   I ended up picking...