[Kiats]

I felt that the stock was abit too heavy/weighty and dark sounding.
The amp opens it up more and the mids are much smoother and not to heavy/weighty as before. Love how it sounds now. As soneone said before over here. even if youre using the amp on low gain with iems, get the amp, it makes the iems have more'grip' on the sound. 

Hmm... To be clear, you are saying that the black 380 by itself is a bit dark? How does that the black 380 compare to the normal Duraluminum 380? Is it tuned differently?

 

[CuriousRabbit]

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[sawrym]

If somebody will write that black version sounds different because of it's color i will piss my pants...  

 

[stevemiddie]

  If somebody will write that black version sounds different because of it's color i will piss my pants...  

 
The black version sounds different because of its colour

 

[sawrym]

   
The black version sounds different because of its colour. 

There U go...! It would be funnier if would at home, not train...  

But seriously, how far that hype can get?  

 

[stevemiddie]

  There U go...! It would be funnier if would at home, not train...  

But seriously, how far that hype can get?  

I agree it is a bit ridiculous. 

 

[Semuapunmau]

Hello forum,

 


I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem before I go to Astell & Kern support team. My dad has recently purchased the copper version of the 380 and he likes it, the only problem that he is having is when he is connecting it to his Apple laptop to transfer music, it takes around 5 minute to load the music using android file transfer. 

 


He does have quite a large amount of songs on it and there is still plenty of storage space left, we did select the option to connect it as a media device and it has the latest version of firmware.

 


Any help with this issues would be appreciated.

Just curious how much data was transferred in those 5 mins? Doubt it will be any faster using Windows since the AK380 is using USB2.0 and not 3.

As reference I can transfer 2gb from my Mac to a SD card using USB3 less than 2mins

 

[LouisArmstrong]

I auditioned the Black version. Reviews to follow. You guys will be surprised.

 

[Sound Eq]

  I auditioned the Black version. Reviews to follow. You guys will be surprised.

well I am expecting to read some interesting comparisons 

 

[my-2000]

  I auditioned the Black version. Reviews to follow. You guys will be surprised.

 
I can smell the word "sublime" coming this way. AK should totally make a rainbow version and it will have the best of everything.

 

[raypin]

Mmm......WA8 Eclipse + AK 380 cu > AK 380 cu + cu amp. And, yes, it is sublime. It is now my favorite transportable rig for headphones, specially with the HD 800 S and the Fostex TH 900. 

 

[bmichels]

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Mmm......WA8 Eclipse + AK 380 cu > AK 380 cu + cu amp. And, yes, it is sublime. It is now my favorite transportable rig for headphones, specially with the HD 800 S and the Fostex TH 900. 

picture please of this "sublime" combo 

 

[Ruben123]

If somebody will write that black version sounds different because of it's color i will piss my pants...  

It was only waiting for Louis to come by... Lol
Same internals different colors and thus different sound duh!

 

[LouisArmstrong]

It was only waiting for Louis to come by... Lol
Same internals different colors and thus different sound duh!

No problem dude, happy to serve. 

 

[raypin]

 

 
Mmmm....sure. The TH 900 is so good with the WA8 that I will be getting the TH 900 MK 2 for its removable cable option, just as soon as I've paid my mountain of credit card debt. Lol!. The 900 with the fixed cable is just too long and unwieldy for on the go.
 
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picture please of this "sublime" combo