This has since happened another two times. I contacted your support email and recieved a reply from someone who had no knowledge of the issue (despite the months of complaints here from numerous people). It's time you started taking this matter seriously. The alternative is that this is...

Flashed 1.73 at the end of last week, and for a few days it looked like this had fixed things. But this evening I found that the R earhook had connected to my phone sometime during the day and managed to drain its battery. The L had not connected and was fully charged. Both earhooks have been...

It's not surprising that Qualcomm's marketing materials advertise extremely high data rates. I'm sure they can squeeze 3Mbps through the pipe under lab conditions. Real-world radio is a different matter, though, especially with wearable tech where both sending and receiving antennae are right...

Very unlikely this has anything to do with resampling. I described the tonal shifts produced by trying to push LHDC too hard back in November, and it has nothing to do with the new 1.5 firmware. Trying to squeeze too high a bitrate into an antenna sitting next to a big bag of radio-absorbent...

Sounds like the case isn’t connecting to the right ear hook so its battery drained and won’t work any more. Check that the pins in your charging case are all moving properly on their springs (I had two sets where one of the pins failed). If they’re ok, gently clean the contacts on the ear hooks...

Got my replacement back from AdvancedMP3Players yesterday. They swapped out the charging case for one they had that works properly. The difference is very noticeable. Instead of having to fiddle around repeatedly placing the hooks back in the case they connect at once and start charging. Makes...

Had to return my UTWS5 for the second time today because one of the charging pins stopped popping up and remains stuck down not making contact. Exact same problem as on my first set (though that was a different pin). I sincerely hope I just managed to get 2 from a batch with dodgy springs and...

This is an annoying issue with the charging points. I had no problem keeping my previous tws charged. The solution I’ve found is to wipe down the inner surface of the body (with the charge pads) every time I put them back in the case. And make sure the light comes on for both ear hooks. If one...

Bluetooth connections can often have odd issues, but I've had a situation in which only the right earhook connects when taking them out of the case. The only thing that will fix this is to unpair and then re-pair the earhooks. I've had these a month, use them every day and it's happened twice so...

Since I'm cheap, I balked at the cost of the OEAudio mmcx-2pin connector and was sure I could find something cheaper on Aliexpress. Well, I could, for substantially less money you can get https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000302353396.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.35e51802Bn2ubj It's clear from...

According to the Fiio support guy who posts here the Utws5 doesn't support 900kbps. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fiio-utws5-true-wireless-bluetooth-earhooks-as-usual-coupled-with-independent-ak4332-dac-new-arrival-of-fiio-utws5-all-over-the-world-2022-04-30.959856/post-17147816

I think the major issue is that it doesn't degrade down to the lowest bitrate gracefully and you get weird tonal shifts as frequency sub-bands are lost. But I'm not sure how much of that can be governed on the receiver end. If there were a switch in the Control app allowing it to advertise to...

Yeah, thought so… So it looks like it’s not worth bothering about high-bitrate codecs if you carry the phone next to your body. This has nothing to do with radio pollution, as that’s going to be a lot higher indoors with WiFi competing for space on the 2.4GHz band, and BT has lots of ways to...

Walking around with your phone in your pants right next to your leg? As I said, it works fine as long as I can move the phone away from my body.

I got my UTSW5 last week and was excited to see that Xiaomi had added LHDC (listed as 'LHDC_v3' in dev options) to my Pocophone F1 before they abandoned it. I use my earphones almost solely when out walking the dog, with the phone in my right pocket next to my leg. LHDC worked fine for the...

A quick update. I wasn't completely satisfied with the treble balance, so opened them up again and tried thinning-down the cotton pads I'd placed over the drivers. The pads start out at approximately 3mm tick (uncompressed). These pads are formed with a thin outer compressed layer on both sides...

The 3d-printed grills arrived late last week, and I found the first thing I hadn't planned for was that the original screws aren't long enough to handle them. So I got some M2x8mm screws which fit perfectly. You can pick these up on eBay for a little over a pound. I first tried placing the...

My mods so far: The first thing to note is that, fresh out of the box, I could definitely hearing the 2kHz ringing on these phones, but only on certain music. It was most clearly noticeable on choral music or solo tenor songs and could be damped down by using a Q=5 notch filter around 2.3kHz...

From the reviews I've seen the LCD-1s are lackluster ("makes life kinder for those of limited means" -HiFi News) with recessed upper end and a lot of HF ringing. If you're looking at sub $500 planars the best alternative to the 1060C would be the Verum 1, though the Sundara is also worth...

It looks like they also do a 1060 (open) clone https://forum.hifiguides.com/t/goldplanar-gl1000/6889/2 But from the posts there the sound is inferior. In fact, looking through the Taobao link in that thread, they also do clones of the HEDDphone and Raal Requisite SR1a (!!!).

It depends how much 'like crazy' means. Like most cheap basshead phones, the XB950 actually doesn't do that well at 20Hz, but has a broad hump centered around 100Hz, which is probably where you should put your EQ if you want to match its signature. I just tested my 1060Cs and they go down to...

Well I just got my pair yesterday and have spent several hours listening to them so far. I'll probably hold off on starting to mod them for a week or so just to check that everything's OK and I don't have to RMA them. First impressions: yes, they're heavy, especially compared to the (plastic)...

Haha, knowing my luck if there weren't some protection I'd manage to put my fat thumb through the driver in less than a week. But from a sound perspective you're right, for an open-back headphone the best grill is no grill at all. Thanks for all the replies. I've updated my summary with the...

[Edit] I've seen some inflated estimates of the cost required to mod these elsewhere, so for the record the mods I dae to my 1060Cs cost less than £25, the bulk of which was taken up by getting the grills 3d-printed. Since these are finally on sale for a decent price in Monoprice's European...