[arbiter76]

I have been offered to review the onyx but I am leaning towards declining it. The wait is at least a month out too. I just got a topping nx4 and am an offical portable audio zombie. I probably have something on my ears more often than not now and that's with asperger's and sensory processing disorder. I'm on the hunt for some another closed back and an IEM or two. By then I might have more equipment and some of the luster of the nx4 wears off.

 

[roach7]

just had a chance to try this out... it's a great little dongle but it's not any more powerful than the dragonflys. for me at volume 30-40 it plays the stellia & hekse nicely but on the he6se i max it out to 100 and it's just good enough to listen to. it is pitch-black silent at zero with sensitive iems like the andromeda...

 

[mobbaddict]

just had a chance to try this out... it's a great little dongle but it's not any more powerful than the dragonflys. for me at volume 30-40 it plays the stellia & hekse nicely but on the he6se i max it out to 100 and it's just good enough to listen to. it is pitch-black silent at zero with sensitive iems like the andromeda...

Not bad. I wouldn't expect any dongle to drive the HE6se properly though, it's quite power-hungry isn't it?

 

[roach7]

Not bad. I wouldn't expect any dongle to drive the HE6se properly though, it's quite power-hungry isn't it?

it definitely won't do it justice but it's ok on the go... but then i don't listen to music very loud so it's passible for me.

 

[BogdanUK]

I just got the Onyx and it sounds absolutely fantastic, just needs a little EQ to enhance the low frequencies. My questions is, if anyone tried to update the firmware?

 

[roach7]

I just got the Onyx and it sounds absolutely fantastic, just needs a little EQ to enhance the low frequencies. My questions is, if anyone tried to update the firmware to the new 0.2.2 ?

I also tried update the firmware but I'm getting verify failed...

 

[mobbaddict]

Got mine though the post the morning, it works flawlessly on a corporate windows 10 laptop, which is precisely the reason why I didn't want to bother with chi-fi stuff. I will test more tonight with my planars

 

[craiglester]

Just updated the firmware on mine. Nothing noticably different. Oh and for those asking if it can drive my k340s. It can. They're 400x2 ohms. Not sure on what that means exactly, but the onyx drives them ok, not amazingly, but better by far than any other dongle I've tried. On a side note, damn I forgot just how good the k340s sound.

 

[roach7]

Just updated the firmware on mine. Nothing noticably different. Oh and for those asking if it can drive my k340s. It can. They're 400x2 ohms. Not sure on what that means exactly, but the onyx drives them ok, not amazingly, but better by far than any other dongle I've tried. On a side note, damn I forgot just how good the k340s sound.

how did you get the firmware to upgrade? you didn't get any error messages?

 

[craiglester]

Just ran the tool and it took about 5 seconds to update.. then I clicked verify and it confirmed it. Nothing out of the ordinary. Have to have headphones plugged in or it stays in standby and doesn't work.

 

[roach7]

maybe there's a new download... let go re-download again

 

[roach7]

didn't work... maybe i'll try another machine

 

[BogdanUK]

didn't work... maybe i'll try another machine

It didn't work to update the firmware at all or just to verify before running the firmware update?

 

[roach7]

i clicked Burn and it says verify failed...

 

[BogdanUK]

i clicked Burn and it says verify failed...

I have just updated mine with no problems and it verified fine after the update. The verification will fail if run before the firmware update.