Well, there's always the Fidelio X2's. I personally listen to a hella lot Meta, and specifically when it comes to Stoner, Earth's "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull" is a true joy to experience with them.

I absolutely love the sound of the Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear, even though they're pretty cheap. While I do love my Philips Fidelio X2, I see myself using the in-ears more often than those old cans. Something about the sound is just more pleasant. Maybe it's the sibillance of the X2, which has...

Can anyone recommend a good reseller for 4.4mm balanced cables? There are apparently a few on Aliexpress, but I generally tend to favor "popular" solutions.

Is there a way to narrow down whether my Zen DAC's headphone out (jack, not the 4.4) is causing trouble or if it's my headphones themselves? I haven't really used my X2's in a while, the Zen mostly acts as a pre-amp for my speakers, but as I was listening to music late at night recently and...

Wait a minute, since when was the 5-Series an upgrade to the X2? I always thought both were pretty much sidegrades to each other, with very different goals in mind.

Isn't the BoomPro's cable like 6 feet? This is why I had hoped for a single-box, integrated solution.

I'd like to convert my beloved Fidelio X2 into a wireless headset. I know there are solutions that technically offer what I'm looking for, namely putting Bluetooth and a microphone into a small box with a standard phone jack. Heck, I even had the FiiO BTR3K in my cart already and was just about...

Sorry for the delay, took some time to get around to properly sit down and do this. I can report back that this indeed did the trick, though I didn't have to trim off a whopping 15 dB for 131 Hz, as 6 were already enough to get rid of the droning. For 75 Hz I don't really feel much difference in...

So, I had my Suedes for a few weeks now and after the initial euphoria my excitement has returned to a soft meh again. While I'm going to keep these out of the simple fact that my stock X2 pads were worn out anyway, I'm a bit disappointed. They are way stiffer in comparison to the stock pads...

Oh wow, EQ'ing out 131 Hz as you described worked wonders! I don't really know what most of these numbers mean, but blindly following helped immensly! Take a listen at this audio sample with Dance Macabre again. It still got a bit of droning, but if you compare it to the sample from the first...

Well, I gave it a full test with the blankets and pillows again. No luck, it the droning prevails. However, I did take a look in the manual and saw something regarding the XLF setting that caught my attention: I then took a look in my APO and played around with the 50-80 Hz range, and I can...

JBL LSR310S, which is downfiring. That's how I initially set up the sub and it does sound good for the most part. There are a few songs where it really sticks out badly like Dance Macabre though. As for the settings, the knob is currently at around 1 o'clock with XLF already enabled. Polarity...

These are the settings on the backpanel. I'm not sure if anything there is for phase. I did try to toggle the polarity now, with no audible difference though.

Not much I can do in terms of movement... My room isn't big at all. I could maybe get half a feet of air to the wall if I shift stuff a little, but that's as far as I can go. Just watched a few YouTube videos. Elevation seems to be a good starting point, I'll try to experiment with towels a...

It isn't. When I put the sub in the middle of my room it sounds crystal clear. It can't stay there for obvious reasons though, but at the room's corner it produces these muddy sounds. Which is why I had hoped to EQ the frequencies out, I just don't even know where to start.

I've got some annoying issues with my subwoofer. There are some very specific low frequencies that don't respond well to my walls, causing a muddy droning sound to go through the entire room. Here's an audio example...

No luck when running as admin either, still says there's no device connected. No downgrade possible as a result. And yes, I did unplug the device multiple times. No external power supply, it works on USB alone.

5.30: But your remark led me to your download page and I've seen 7.0c is already out. I'm gonna update and report back if this fixes the issue. As a little sidenote, your firmware update process is a little unintuive, I had no idea I had to go all the way into the Program Files folder to find...

In response to this, are there any updates? I thought I would get used to the short cut-off of about half a second every time I start music, but I've since noticed it also affects Windows sounds. So if I get a notification I will actually only hear the last fraction of the chime. I already tried...

No more ideas regarding this? I can live with this, don't get me wrong, I just wish to know if I did something wrong in my setup and potentially locked myself out of better sound.

Yes, it is louder, if only slightly. The knob is currently at 10 o'clock, where it was around 12 on RCA for similar volume levels. My setup is Spotify Premium > USB > ZEN (no extra power supply) > the new 4.4-to-XLR cable > JBL LSR310S > JBL LSR305

BRZHIFI, I think. Not sure if it's just a rebrand though. In any case, this is the one I ordered (1.5m): https://aliexpress.com/item/33010445455.html The only thing I could imagine is your typical Asian scam. Considering these cables may easily cost a good three digits in the west when ordered...

In context of this post: new cable finally arrived, and this time it's the 4.4-to-XLR one I ordered! The good news is that it definitely doesn't sound worse, as you would expect from a balanced cable. The bad news is that I'm kind of disappointed with the improvements. That is to say, I...

It's been quite a while since the last time (they were still called Massdrop back then), but it took quite a bit. With COVID going on to make things worsee, I'd say it'll be at least bet on a month.

Currently available at Drop for only $5 shipping to Europe. Just ordered mine! https://drop.com/buy/dekoni-premium-earpads-for-philips-fidelio-x2