then you should contact Apple, since it's apparent that their app is not delivering the Hi-Res sticker to you.. How did Head-Fi become such a cesspool for weirdos?! :scream_cat:

I think it's YOU that's confusing things.. If it's labeled as Lossless, you already get the maximum quality that you could wish for. Adding a "hi-res" sticker to a lossless signal does NOT change the signal or the file, or the quality at all.

sounds like a non-issue to me.. Unless you're falling for the stupid "hi-res" sticker scam... If a song is played lossless, it's literally played back without any loss of quality, no matter if it was stored as a 16bit or 24 bit or 32bit file. "Hi-Res" is just marketing BS that means less...

Why not offer different filters? Multibit will likely result in bad measurements from ASR and the likes 😅 beautiful design, though! I just bought an SMSL DL200 for its optical input and the balanced TRS outs for my studio monitors.

How does this compare to a Jotunheim 2 with ES9028 module? the Topping doesn't have a balanced headphone output.. Does it mute the studio monitors on the XLR outputs when headphones are plugged in? are there any issues to be expected regarding noise from the computer? Over a decade, three...

Some questions: How does the Midgard compare to a Jotunheim with ES9028 DAC chip? Either way, can the pre-outs be used to feed into studio monitors and will they be cut off if headphones are plugged in? (I currently have a Destiny Aristaios Headphone amp that's lovely (tubes), but the line-out...

Found the first really infuriating issue with my D2... I cannot find it anymore :triumph: I even started wondering if I had sold the thing, but there are no completed sales on any of the auction sites I use.. I found my FiiO X5II that I sold, but not the Plenue D2.. It's not where I usually...

what kind of USB outlet are you using on the PC? If the connector doesn't provide high enough voltage, it's entirely possible that the device drains more power than the PC can supply. (that's why certain USB-C ports are labeled as charging ports) On a different note: I want to sell my barely...

the amp's name really is Gato?! You know that Gato in Spanish and Portuguese means "cat"?! :k701smile:

Here's a horrible idea: Why bother with 192kHz anyways?! Unless you are mixing/mastering audio recordings, there's literally no reason whatsoever why you would ever need such a high sampling rate. You say you use the Mini while "traveling".. what are you packing, an entire mastering studio in...

It's never going to be anywhere near as good as a 4-year old Smartphone, very likely.. The Snapdragon 660 is pretty weak.. even the 2019 Samsung S10 has a MUCH stronger chipset... I would never watch on a phone sized screen, though.. and the FiiO can probably not even last through a single movie.

the WiiM Pro DAC has a pretty bad SINAD, yes. If you listen at elevated levels with headphones (for instance) and dynamic music, you are very likely to hear the noise during quiet passages. On a different note, I switched to a Pioneer VSX-LX505 AV-Receiver, that has Chromecast built-in and...

gotcha! Thanks for pointing this out. Would be great to have a conclusive list of "things" that can cause amplifiers, DACs, CD-players, etc. to actually affect the output. e.g. Output voltage, impedance, distortion? damping? SINAD? Having a nice spreadsheet.. or concept map?... or...

I completely understand, but I still have to ask: if every component (DAC, Amp, Source) supposedly cannot be told apart from another, why would you expect differences with two separate chains? (I guess, the main issue was his mediocre approach at volume matching using the SPL from the...

okay... Resolve is a big name among headphone users.. And he's convinced that ESS sounds different from Burr Brown DACs.. He did a somewhat lame blind test (for a guy with tens of thousands at his disposal..) and got basically everything right...

Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?! You should know full well, that this "argument" will just spiral on and on without anyone ever getting anything out of it, except wasted time.

if it truly needed greater than 400 Ohms, it would sound like crap on any non-adjustable MC phono preamp.. :k701smile:

because you guys started to talk about subjective matters as if they were scientific facts.. "I tuned this to be top of the line quality sound".. "to get perfect sound, you need to spend x amount of money", etc.

you guys are drifting off, I fear... That said, paying a lot of money can certainly "improve the experience"... Either because the haptics and overall handling of something gets better, or because you simply love spending money and convincing yourself that you bought quality. I recently...

love this! Recently had some guy tell me that I was stupid for not believing in his experience, because even his WIFE could tell that the difference was HUGE, and she didn't normally care about hifi at all... see? his wife!!!!!11111 She was completely free of any bias.. probably never met the...

He's a great guy and he's written some great articles about amplifiers and how they don't affect sound at all. (I guess you've read that too, right?) Anyways, I hear what I hear.. and oh so many others hear it too.. maybe we're just all ****ed in the brain and some guy claiming it to be a myth...

so it's okay for you to claim to hear the flies fart but when I say that there's a massive difference in treble with different loading, it's a myth?! If that's the case, I don't need to bother with those stupid cartridges with expensive needles anyways, because my ears are apparently so...

of course, you can theoretically get better results with a microline stylus.. but if I want perfect reproduction, I just slap an SACD into my player and call it a day. Vinyl is about the experience for me. I'm perfectly aware of the massive shortcomings of the medium, so I won't bother trying...

yeah, that's why I love my DL-103R... spherical shape.. simple and forgiving to set up :D (I'd just go crazy thinking I could've potentially done better with the set-up with a shibata or microline)

you don't need to run full 15min cycles, actially. if they are new, without fingerprints, etc. just do the short cycle. used records with grimey prints, I'd first run through a spin clean or knosti real quick, then into the humminguru.. maybe 5min x 2? I wanted to buy a Humminguru myself...