Fantastic write-up, thank you for your impressions! You've now lain to rest my worries about whether I made the right choice with my HD560s: Since I wanted an all-rounder for music AND movies and TV, it sounds like I made the right choice by sacrificing just a tad bit of detail for the sake of...

This is incredibly fascinating, thank you for sharing the results of your experimentation with us! This is actually one of the most interesting and informative posts I've ever seen in a thread I follow on here for a product that I own, and I commend you for going to so much effort and sharing...

Thus why Dekoni is asking us if we want them to make a Velour option, heh. It sounds to me like you would probably find a velour option to be very desirable, yes? It would be much more similar to the stock sound (one of the main if not the biggest issue with suede is that it forms a tighter...

I did say that I apologize for the way in which I worded all of my points in past posts, but I guess it's too late for that now and I will always have a reputation as a jerk in this thread. Oh well, I just hope that doesn't detract from people taking a serious look at the arguments for why a...

Well obviously you guys know I'm the one who requested velour; I want to apologize for the overly-abrasive (as abrasive as the velour on the stock earpads, HA) way in which I requested it, my bad! Thank you for taking notice of the request, I really appreciate it. Anyone else here who would...

The treble-spike seems to be from about a little over 4Khz to about 5.5 or 6Khz, but yeah, it's not as bad as many people make it out to be. As far as peaks/dips in the treble go, measurements and my own hearing-based testing show that they tend to vary depending on the placement of the...

Interesting! So it DOES sound a good deal better, good to know. So what about comparisons to other competing products like the Lotoo PAW S1?

At $165, the Lotoo PAW S1 is 50% more expensive than the BTR5, but I'd still say it's close enough in price to be a valid comparison, so I'm definitely intrigued by your claim of it sounding better than the BTR5, and would be interested in the chance to compare them someday. The L&P W2 is around...

The BTR5 is SHOCKINGLY convenient and easy to use, fully capable of just plug-and-play although you can control it more from your computer if you install Fiio's USB DAC driver (which is easy to do). When I had my BTR5 in the past, I had it playing music as a USB DAC within literally seconds of...

Interesting, so it sounds like it at least lives up to A&K's claims about performance when it comes to IEM's. I'm curious though as to how it performs with full-sized headphones. These days, there's no shortage of dongles on the market that have a shockingly large output such that they can even...

I completely agree. Under-$200 USB-dongles and super-portable DAC/Amps with tiny form-factors (like the one I will compare to in the next paragraph) are a very competitive market, and I don't see how A&K is bringing anything new to the table with this product that other companies haven't already...

So if FR at the eardrum is truly all that matters as you and Oratory1990 seem to be claiming, then how do you explain why you even bother to get $200 headphones or to get open-backs? How do you account for the superiority of open-backs over closed-backs, or the fact that full-sized headphones...

Yup but then Oratory1990 claims that the impulse-response is ALWAYS just the Fourier Transform of the frequency-response and tells a blatant lie that nobody even actually measures impulse-responses. Yes, all headphones have some non-linearities, which can be seen as distortion in the...

Hmmmm no I didn't, I only have experience with the X2HR. I kinda wish I had access to a mint-condition set of those old earpads for whenever these current ones wear out! I don't know what I'm going to do once these earpads wear out. And psh, Euclid class? That just applies to the earpads and...

You into the SCP Foundation at all? If so then [DATA EXPUNGED] and also :black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square: because those earpads are [REDACTED].

As for the HD600: That supports what I said about time-domain stuff creating differences. Time-domain decay (as seen in CSD plots) tremendously affects the sound of headphones. The HD600's CSD Waterfall plot is practically IDEAL with even, fast decay. Oratory1990 claims that EVERYTHING about...

Yup, and the fact that a seal-breach with the Brainwavz pads significantly changes the sound is an indication that they are far from being a proper replacement for the stock pads. Because the stock pads that come with the headphones are basically completely insensitive to and unaffected by...

Of course, frequency-response is only one small part of the whole picture when it comes to the sound of headphones or speakers! As I mentioned in a previous post, I use both the HD560s and the X2HR's EQ'd to exactly the same target-curve using exactly the same method from exactly the same...

There are ways to make it work with Realtek. What I did was go into the Equalizer APO Configurator where you set up devices, select the "Speaker/Headphones" Windows Realtek device, click the "troubleshooting options" checkbox, make sure that the pre-mix and post-mix options both have "Install...

For both the X2HR and the HD560s, I prefer the EQ presets from the AutoEQ archive on Github (easy to find on Google) that are based on Oratory1990's measurements but use a different method to arrive at the preset than Oratory did in their original preset. With both headphones, I find that the...

The least they could do is have the earpads and cables actually in-stock in their online store, the situation with that is indeed very frustrating. But yeah, as for the cables I have no idea why they don't just use a standard 3.5mm entry without any proprietary locking-mechanism. I find that the...

All the accessories are ALMOST ALWAYS out of stock on the U.S. website, either that or my timing is awful, it's really annoying. Earpads, cables, you name it, the U.S. website seems to NEVER actually have them. Can anyone tell me WHY that is? Because I've seriously been wondering about it for a...

They do have short (1.2m) cable options that don't have a mic! Literally any cable for any of the HD5__ series headphones with that locking-mechanism at the 2.5mm end for the headphone-side will work just fine. The cables for the HD599, HD598, HD579, HD569, HD559, whatever (I'm just making some...

I haven't tried that cable myself, but I am absolutely positive that it is fully compatible with the HD560s. All the HD5__'s series headphones other than the 58x (which is from Drop and really just a 6__ series headphone under a different name) use the exact same locking-mechanism on the...

Sorry about another very, very long wall-of-text post, but there's A LOT to process and address here: Hearing the bass rumble/shake the headphones is normal for closed-backs, and one of the tradeoffs with getting mid-fi open-back dynamic driver headphones like the HD560s. It's a result of them...