"I had to really floor my headphone amp to get it to sing"
Sure. Blast an amp well past its linear region and wonder you have crap coming out the other end. And who tf listens @94 - 114DB? This guy is a complete moron.
The beauty of ASR is that it's all objective data at the end of the day. There is no element of Human Dilution if I may. Amir measures how the gear perform from an engineering point of view. As someone who has been burned many times following subjective analysis on Headfi and other places, with ASR, you are getting exactly what you see.
I'd rather take ASR than any one of these Headphone Review Websites(Headfonia, Headfonics etc) whose reviews read like ad pieces rather than provide any actual information.
I agree about the "ad pieces" reviews, but feel that the whole of ASR is an ad piece to Topping.
In one review, couldn't install a window driver - bad review. Most of early reviews of products are compared to Topping dacs, like it is some gold standard, may be it is, I'm just not aware of it. Looks like he is trying, but something is missing big time, as his reviews all over the place.
I do miss Tyll Hertsens.
I agree about the "ad pieces" reviews, but feel that the whole of ASR is an ad piece to Topping.
In one review, couldn't install a window driver - bad review. Most of early reviews of products are compared to Topping dacs, like it is some gold standard, may be it is, I'm just not aware of it. Looks like he is trying, but something is missing big time, as his reviews all over the place.
I do miss Tyl Hertsens.
It is objective performance though. All he is doing is measuring Objective Performance of the DACs, there's no subjectivity involved. Topping actually takes his reviews into account and integrates them into their engineering, probably why they measure so good.
I was dissapointed with the lack of detail I was expecting when I got my V2. I know its supposed to be less than the PHI, but even still I assumed it wouldn't be so subdued. My reference is HD800S with and without EQ.
I'm usually 12 o'clock for "modern" recordings and classical type stuff I can be from 75 to 100% volume on medium gain. Usually its just loud enough to prevent the high gain option. I try not to listen too loud either.
I'm not hating on the FR measurement though although I don't know how much to trust it. Seal and positioning makes such a big difference in tonality I don't know how you would even go about getting an accurate measurement. Everyone probably wears them a bit different.
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