derbigpr
Headphoneus Supremus
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Is it normal that the unit gets pretty hot after some time?
Something is very wrong, I received mine from newegg Friday and I love it, While the STX is a nice sound card it is truly no match. I have owned the STX for 4 or so years and it is no contest when compared to the E1.
Iam matching mine with a pair of Senn HD700 and it sound incredible, in fact it has warmed the SS exactly the way i hoped it would.
The STX doesn't have the level of separation and detail and i also find that it is noisy vs the one, but it maybe my ears so far I have played it through an Integra DPS 7.2 transport and ITunes thru lossless files, and again both sound terrific.
Also I have left the one burn in for 2 days straight without a listen and it never got hot. Something is wrong with your unit if its getting hot or something in the chain is not right.
Sorry to hear your not liking it but VS the STX sound card to me it really is no contest. I will try and post pics soon.
I got mind a couple of weeks ago and it was fantastic right out of the box. Updated the firmware, driver, and USB and added the asio driver and it is better than fantastic. Will try some opamp rolls but almost afraid to mess with it. Just saw Asus is coming out with a new version and the only thing new is that it comes with a couple of upgraded opamps to roll along with the stock opamps.
The issue is lack of power. I'm sure it would sound better with some easier to run headphones of same caliber, currently I only have my DT880's with me. But with DT880's it has so little power that it cannot sound good or be even adequately loud. It's totally underpowered. Honestly I'd be surprised if it can output 40 mW into a 600 Ohm load, while DT880's need 100 mW.
So, for anyone with 600 Ohm headphones, this is useless as an amp, despite it saying it can run 600 Ohm headphones. Yea, it can, the same way an Iphone can run HD800's.
You unit is faulty, Xonar One is more powerfull than ST or STX, install newest drivers, update the firmware, there is something wrong with your unit. My findings are exactly opposite, Xonar One is MILES better than ST or STX, I don't even own one, but reviewed it some time ago and I was pretty impressed.
LE: I' ve listened to Xonar One with LCD-2, HD800 and T1
Is it normal that the unit gets pretty hot after some time?
It has arrived!
Man its heavy, both in terms of weight of the unit and bass reproduction. However its for now very unimpressive in terms of sound quality and basically everything apart from the build quality. Running it with Foobar and Asio trough bit-perfect mode, and I'd say its not as good as the ST, not even the head amp has more power than the ST, my DT880's get louder out the ST. The sound clarity is just not there. Everything sounds small, congested and muddy. Might be because its still new, but apart from the great build quality, I'd not pay more than 100$ for this thing. Good thing I can return within 8 days. Tomorrow I'll go to the store and compare it with Teac UD-H01, but as far as I remember, it sounded much better than Asus. It left me stunned by how good the DT880's sound, while with Asus they literally sound like...well, crap. Honestly, DT880's plugged into 8 year old Philips FW-M567 mini stereo system sound as good if not better, and go just as loud without distortion, I'm not joking. At the moment I am HUGELY disappointed by this thing.
Just to add, I'm the most disappointed by the head amp section. Obviously "made for 600 Ohm headphone" is just a marketing gimmick. It can't even run the 600 Ohm Beyers to comfortably loud level, let alone very loud. Over 12 o'clock there's no increase in volume either. Difference between the knob being at 12 o'clock and all the way to the end is like 4-5 decibels, virtually no increase in loudness.
I've had it on maxed out volumes everywhere on PC, and on the knob in the front for the last 30 minutes, and still haven't played a single song that had me wanting for more loudness.