Thanks for the quick replies! Well, I will buy an amp, it seems I won't get the best from k550 if I dont :o Dragonfly seems great, but since I'm running low on money, I was thinking about a cheaper portable DAC/amp like Fiio Q1, what do you think?

Hello! I've just acquired AKG K550 MKII, I'm a new to this audiophile world, so excuse my stupid questions. I own the hifimediy sabre usb dac, I would like to know if I need to get an amp, because I've read some posts about the high impedance output (or something like this) of this dac, that...

My results:       I messed up the first group entirely it seems     On the second group, the flac was pretty obvious to me. More impact, juicy sound. The 128 and 320 were guesses, but both clearly inferior to the flac, they sounded thinner.   About the third group, the 128 kbps one was...

Hi people, I've been testing Premium+ Deezer (supposedly 320 kbps), I mainly listen to japanese artists and the sound quality on Deezer is crap. Not true 320 kbps whatsoever, sounds more like 128 kbps most songs (not popular ones I must say) I've tested. However, when listening to more...