So I have a pair of Drop HD 6XX and have had them for 3 years or so. They always struck me as flat and not a lot of high end. Last fall, as I had an old iPad I could use to stream Apple Music lossless and hi res audio, I picked up the apple camera adapter, USB cable and a Topping D70S MQA and...

I don’t get the sense Amirm’s sense of investment is necessarily a bad thing. He has methods for measuring response curves, distortion and other factors. He also listens to the item after review. I think a lot of his comments of what he hears are pretty reasonalble and has a bit df. A self...

Not to threadjack the Schiit audio thread with bear stories, but my son was tree planting in Northern Alberta/BC many years ago when a black bear started to stalk him. Clearly he was being hunted. My son turned and faced the bear, held up his shovel and pack of saplings and started to talk to...

OK, fixed! After a lot of back and forth with Schiit, finally it came down to them suggesting I first plug the wall wart into power and hooking USB up to the power USB input (closest to outside edge), THEN hooking USB from computer to the Modius data port. I now have full operational excellence...

So more testing last night. Using Optical Digital out from late 2015 iMac to Modius, I am getting full sound oit of the Magnius, so the CAD works , just not the USB interface. Had the USB plugged into the data port of the Modius and could switch back and forth on the Mac from Optical out to USB...

A little more info and testing results: 1. Using a late 2015 iMac, 40GB RAM, Apple Music app streaming 2. USB out direct to Modius. I reconnected directly to the Magnius HP Amp which has been working since I received it as a very nice combo. 3.a. Balanced output to Modius, no sound whatsoever...

No dongle. Pretty straight ahead. USB out of computer to USB audio in to DAC.

Had the Modius/Magnius bundle for the last month and loving it. USB out to Modius, balanced connection to Magnius headphone amp. Computer recognizes the USB Audio Codex out to Modius. All good. I ordered a Lokius which arrived today. Hooked it into the system, and nothing. Silence. Dead...

SO some decent news. Drop was of no help for out of warranty assistance. I re-contacted Seinnheiser and for a relatively nominal feee, they will sell me a set of HD650 drivers that they will show me how to install myself. Gonna go that route I think. No ability to drive above 10,000 hz is a deal...

Thanks, will check that later. Appreciate the input. Would the driver be permanently damaged Is this is the case?

I was initially using a balanced cable, but switched to test with a single ended cable as well, same result. All other phones were single ended. I contacted Seinnheiser who said Drop serviced their products. So I contacted Drop and they do not service out of warranty products. So I have gone...

HD Tracks can be pretty premium priced. I can get a CD for 8.99-12.99. I have bought 20-30 HD Tracks downloads over the years and frankly, hard for me to tell the difference if the master is the same.

I get that totally. It was more that, obviously depending on your view of which is better, the 2019 remix in hi-res sounded worse to my ears than the 2009 16/44.1 rip I did in plain old lossless. So just because it is hi res doesn’t necessarily mean it is a better reproduction of the music. To...

I guess the wrong thing. Only seeing one 6’ one tho. Might be Cdn vs US site. Will check again later.

I picked up the 4pin adapter and balanced cable from Drop for my Seinnheiser HD6XX. I was unaware the balanced cable was only 3’ long, so my bad for missing that. Anyways, will require an 8-10’ extension cable, 4pin male to 4pin femAle. I did not see a stock one from Blue Jeans, and my looks at...

OK. Happened again. After about 15 minutes. Still registering nitrate but no sound. Unplug and plug in lightning to iPad got it back. This could be a problem any other experiences here?

Running Apple Lossless via my iPad Touch 2. I think I figured the issue out. The Lightning camera connector/card reader connector coming out of the iPad was set up sideways. The weight of the camera connector and lightning connector pulling down, as the iPad warmed up, may have resulted in the...

More digging. More rathole. More Beatles. Comparing Apple 24/96 2019 remastering of Abbey Road vs my 16/44.1 2009 remastered CD lossless rip to ALAC. The iPad is input into the USB of the DAC. The newer remastering is a snuck quieter so I had to level match with my Squeezebox, set it at 92%...

Post in a different thread on the full “review” as such, but I installed the Topping D70S MQA on Monday and ran coax digital out from my 5 disk Rotel CD player (built somewhere between 2000 and 2008…purchased a LOOOONG time ago) to the Topping D70sMQA DAC. From the DAC,RCA single ended audio...

OK so stage two. Topping D70S MQA arrived on the weekend. Set it up tonight, pulling the Beresford Caiman. My 5 disk Rotel CD player has RCA out to Cambridge 640 integrated amp, and Coax digital audio out to the Topping. Squeezebox Touch Toslink Audio out to Topping iPad Air 2 via card...

Last week I also did a very rudimentary test of Apple Music hi-res (24/92) iPad via USB camera adapter to USB in on my older Beresford Caiman DAC . I compared to 16/44.1 rip of the same DSOTM tracks I had on my computer, streamed to my Squeezebox Touch, coax toslink to same Beresford DAC. I used...

All points of discussion here are well thought out and interesting. The key is what we can hear given the associated equipment. At home, with a decent DAC, USB connection and amp/speaker setup, maybe hi-res makes sense. at the cabin, with a Russound whole home audio system, XStream streamer or...

LOL, yeah, fair comment. Tho the Touch is pretty cool little unit. By my whole kit is long in the tooth. If I change that out, likely a Cambridge CXN v2.

I allude to this in my post immediately above, just a little long winded and rambly. I get the sense, especially early CD’s which used the LP masters to directly generate CDs, where the tape masters had greater dynamic range than the LP format, the direct transfers have the snap and range...

I ripped 1600 CDs over the years to both 320kbps AAC for iTues and lossless ALAC for in-house streaming on my Squeezebox Touch to stereo. With the Apple ecosystem fully in control of my house, I had Apple News service and I also got Apple Music and tried the Apple Match stuff. With Apple Music...