audionewbi
Headphoneus Supremus
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As a consumer we do not have that much control over how the manufacturer likes to tune their gear and what they aim to have their gears paired with. Once you spend enough time with a gear and place it under different testing environment you than get an idea what they are capable of.
There are two ways in testing things:
1) Have one set up where you compare things with and against
2) Try to find the best synergy using different gear combinations.
Testing with method 1) give us the following conclusions:
- You plug in the IEM/headphone that interest you, the sound is not what you like, and you move on and look for something else. Since you have a lot of trust with you reference you declare the IEM/Headphone as badly produced as it did not pair well with you reference setup.
This was my case for a long time when I had a deep love affair with my objective 2 amp. I still love that unit and I respect its design approach but after testing amps like wagnus epsilon S I realise this entire science sound is very young and we have many more years to figure out the area where what we hear and what we calculate do not match. - You assume the headphone/IEM plugged into is just not having the right synergy with your setup and you move on.
In say this I tested those three items using the two method mentioned above over time. I believe IE800 maintains its intended sound under different test environment using different setup without much alteration. My conclusion was that the designer of the headphone wanted to ensure their intended sound is achieve regardless how cheap or expensive your source is (in particular your portable source as this is an IEM after all) which is a big plus.
If once dislikes the sound of IE800 out of their ipod chances are they simply dislike its tuning and there is really no point trying different setup.
In case if Dita the sound changed alot. This is an indicator that while the designer bad portability in mind they failed to achieve that as the cable is not easy to handle and also in order to achieve its true sound you are really required to have a desktop setup. This can be good or bad thing. If you want an IEM that can surprise you everything you plug into something better and are willing to compromise of having its downgraded sound when on the go(depending on your setup) than Dita is for you .
With k3003 the only thing that does not change with it on different setup is how open it sounds, the rest of it changes alot, to me this indicates K3003 is not really designed flaw as I do not own any main stream DAP that sounds good with K3003 or make it sounds its very best when all things works on its side.
