Which of these two dynamic driver headphones gives the most bass impact, physicality, tactility and slam? By those qualities I mean slam independent of volume or level - i.e. even when the headphone is playing at whisper-quiet decibel levels, the force of the bass slam should be able to give...

I've been using a Cayin RU6 DAC dongle with a (non-stealth) Hifiman Arya. By all accounts the RU6 does not have enough power to drive the non-stealth Arya 'properly'. However, on high gain on the RU6 I get to 50 out of 100 on the volume scale to achieve a comfortable listening level. At this...

According to Resolve from The Headphone Show and headphones.com, the Hifiman HE6 original (long discontinued and very difficult to find on the used market) is something of a king of dynamic bass slam - which is a subjective measure of physicality that is independent from frequency response (i.e...

I have a DAC/amp that doesn't have a USB input (it only has optical and coax inputs) and a computer that only has USB outputs, therefore I need some sort of adapter to convert USB into coax or optical converter... I have used one in the past that introduced horrendous distortion into the sound...

Are THX/Topping feedback correction amps a type of class A, or class B or class A/B, or class D amp?

On xDuoo's website they list the XA-10 still as having the AKM 4493 chip. As far as I understand - AKM got wiped out by a factory fire, and most brands had to switch to ESS chips. Did xDuoo switch to ESS also, yet forgot to update the product description on their website? If not, how have they...

On the Schiit website, under the 'upgrades' section they sell the True Multibit Card with an option for installing. However, if you order, for example, a Jotunheim, there is no option to have the True Multibit Card as an in-built module. It looks like you need to buy the Jotunheim with no...

The UK Schiit dealer is pretty useless - they don't have stock of most things, and the items they do have in stock are approx 1.6x the US RRP (e.g. equivalent of $620 for a Jot 2 vs the RRP of $400). Surely, importing a $400 item you won't get billed with $220 tax? For those who imported items...

Andrew from The Headphone Show seems supremely confident that the Focal Clear is a tier above the Audeze LCD-X (2020 Ed.) for slam/impact/physicality - supposedly a frequency-response-independent subjective value that denotes how 'hard-hitting' you feel the impact of things such as drum strikes...

I'm planning to get a warm solid state class A amp to complement something like a Topping DX5 (which is very clinical and neutral). I want the difference between the two units to be obvious. Not like you have to squint and convince yourself it's there, or a change only evident when paying...

This is a DAC/AMP combo unit, isn't it? I can't seem to find what sort of DAC chip it uses? ESS? AKM? Burr Brown? Cirrus Logic? And what sort of amp class it operates in? Class A? THX? Does anyone know?

Hey, going on vacation there - are there any good headphone shops? I know they're heavily into IEMs, but are there any that sell full sized headphones too?

I have an older combo DAC/headphone amp unit (Benchmark DAC1) that doesn't have a toggle switch between line out (to my active studio monitors) and headphone out. Therefore, rather than unplug the line out each time I want to use the headphone out, I simply turn off my active studio monitors...

I was listening to the latest episode of The Headphone Show live stream and someone asked a question about fake headphones on the market to which Andrew replied something like (I'm paraphrasing here): "oh yeah, I've heard about that - especially the Sennheiser models, like the HD800s..." But...

When buying online (or even at a physical retailer) - it's pretty difficult to know the stock turnover of the retailer (lower turnover = higher chance of being sold an old model), or even if the old model LCD-X was accidentally put in the 2021 version box (if there is a 2021 version box). So is...

Astell & Kern Kann Alpha seems to be the most powerful I've found so far; does anything rival it? Hopefully something that uses AKM DAC chips instead?

I was looking at something with a light and extremely airy and spacious sound to complement something like an Asgard 3 (which, by contrast would offer a solid sense of slam, warmth and impact) for the price of something in the Asgard 3's price range - do you guys have any recommendations...

As far as I can tell, the only thing that visually distinguishes the stealth from the non-stealth version of the Arya is a sticker on the box. Well, what if (in transit or packaging or storage) that sticker fell off the box of the Arya you were buying, and therefore you thought you were buying...

If you follow Andrew from The Headphones Show - you'll be familiar that he often bandies about the concept of slam/macrodynamics/impact as an attribute OUTSIDE of frequency response. For example, a headphone with lower overall bass output might still have greater slam in the bass than a...

This headphone sounds great but gives me a neck-ache (despite its featherweight status) because I have to wear the headband very far forwards to prevent the headphone from slipping off my head backwards if I relax back into a chair or tilt my head upwards slightly. The headband being forwards...

Does the MG Pro fit exactly like the Elex or Clear, or does it fit on the head like the Utopia? I find if you push down on the headband after putting on the Elex, you can achieve a glue-like fit to your head that feels like you can be upside-down and it won't fall off - yet is still very...

I finally bought a (used - only 5 months old) Sennheiser HD800s. After reading everything online about it - I was expecting to be blown away by the width of the soundstage, but honestly it wasn't *that* much wider than the widest headphone I had previously - which is the HarmonicDyne Zeus. It...

Can't find official replacement pads anywhere? Has anyone found them? Or, if not, are there any 3rd party pads that fit perfectly and do not alter the sound at all? Thanks in advance...

Much has been made about pad and magnet structure changes making a tangible sound quality difference to the LCD-X and LCD-XC... See video linked here for more info; Does anyone know if the LCD2 Classic has similarly been updated for 2021? If so, how do the changes manifest sonically?

*When using the SR325x with Grado G pads instead of the stock pads it comes with. DMS the well-known YouTube reviewer has made the bold statement that *with the large donut 'Grado G pads' instead of the stock earpads, that the new Grado SR325x has a soundstage that 'rivals that of the HD800s'...