Hi, I have a Yulong DA8 II DAC and a pair of Shure Aonic 5 (36 ohm and 119 dB SPL/MW @1kHz sensitivity) The headphone amp is way way too loud, and produce too much noise. What would happen if I connect the IEM on the RCA out (at the back) instead (I know I need an adaptor)? Not enough power...

Hi everyone, I went ahead and upgraded the OG Zen Dac to the v2. First off, it sounds better! And the channel imbalance at very low levels happens much lower in my unit, so BIG win. One issue I’m having though: I was excited to get full mqa rendering from it. I was connecting the previous...

So I just got the massdrop thx 789 amp which I am plan to connect to the SMSL SU-8 DAC for a balanced connection. However I am completely lost at how to connect it. So do I have to use a dual XLR female to dual RCA cable to connect it? By plugging the dual XLR female to the SMSL SU-8 then the...

I got a shiit fulla 2 which I wanna use as a amp and connect to a SMSL SU-8 dac . I saw the shiit manual and it said If I wanna use it as an amp I connect it with a TRS to TRS cable or TRS to dual RCA cable .I wanna know if I can use a TRS to dual XLR cable to connect the shiit fulla 2...

Hey Y'all, I searched the site several ways and did not find a thread dedicated to these, apologies if I missed it. SO, I have a fairly good collection of over-ear and IEMs, but resisted the Truly Wireless because Bluetooth. Black Friday changed my mind and I picked up the Master & Dynamic...

Hi everyone! I'm new here on the forum and I got word of it from a friend that everyone here is pretty good at helping beginners such as me! =D The problem at hand is as follows: I have a full Surround 5.1 Yamaha YHT1840 System lying around and I wish to connect it to my PC for movie viewing...

Hello all. After recently upgrading my headphone setup and doing a bit of work on my speaker setup and buying a few nicer cables I was wondering about building cables myself. I personally enjoy building things quite a bit and think that (at least in the beginning) building custom cables may be...

I have a Powerbook G4 (12yrs old? Old.) running OSX 10.5, a Lyr and Hifiman HE 400i, which produces really good music but I'd like to see if I can improve the sound, so I tried to connect a Bistfrost, connecting it to a USB port (there is no optical sound port). But the laptop wouldn't see it at...