I am a bit late to the party, I have just bought an used DX50 (chosen over the Fiio X5 II due to the replaceable battery and some concerns over Fiio QC) and the device is very nice.   However I am a bit disappointed with the UI: my problem is that I have long album titles for classical...

  The Essence One is a well-designed DAC and headphone amp.   The volume pot could be regarded as a weak spot, but I do not see it as an issue if you are keeping it fixed at maximum (or at a high level) while using the volume control of the Yulong. A fixed output DAC could provide a cleaner...

@damier I am talking less than 50 cm from the DAC and/or the headphone cable. My hypothesis is that the cable is acting as an antenna so it is the distance from the cable that should matter more than the distance from the DAC.   I am living in Italy so 800/1600/2800 MHz for LTE against...

Am I the only experiencing hum/buzz induced on the headphone output while a near mobile phone is doing LTE traffic? Apparently it disappears if I force the phone to work on 3.5G network and affects both original and MKII version of the Essence One.

Hello, I am new to the forum however I have been using it as a reference for a long time ;)   I currently own a pair of Sennheisers HD25-1 II and I am pretty satisfied with them, however since they easily become uncomfortable on long listening sessions I was looking for an over ear...