With DAC ONLY
Pros:
Cons:
DAC & AMP (Tube) – Additional Comments
Pros:
Pros:
- Best sounding headphone so far. Sounds well balanced.
- Comfortable to wear and lightweight
- Mids – Cleaner and neat – (7.5/10)
- Highs – Not too overbearing – Clean but not crisp. Ok for long listening sessions. (6/10)
- Bass – Quality of bass is best I have heard so far - still average. (6/10)
Cons:
- Right earbud makes a clicking noise (that some earbuds make, when applying slight pressure to the earbud while it’s in your ear). I notice some cheaper earbuds do this. I think it’s the membrane inside flexing due to air pressure. Left earbud does not do this. Odd.
DAC & AMP (Tube) – Additional Comments
Pros:
- Warmth of Amp flattened sound again – But the headphone still sounded balanced. This is the first headphone to handle the AMP warmth decently.
- Bass – still clear but got boomy – Handled as low as 30hz decently. It is happy around 30 – 65hz. It loses it around 20/25hz. [actually got the earbud to shake a bit in my ear] (7/10)
- Highs – Stayed about the same – 6/10
- Mids – Got lost a little with the warmth but decent still – 7/10