seanwee
Headphoneus Supremus
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Yeah I always used to hear people say source doesn't matter at all until you get kilobuck iems.In a video on the Shanling M3 Ultra, Super Reviews on You Tube has a good segment where he says he doesn’t hear differences between DAPs at all......well that reviewer is going Tone deaf then, because i have had a Fiio M11,Ibasso DX150/240/ColorFly U6/Shanling M3X/Sony WMA1A/Sony NZ-ZX707/ Calyx M/Pioneer XDP100R/Astell Kern AK100II/Astell Kern SA700/Cowon S/R2/Cayin N6II...and i do not have the most musical ears and i can 100% tell em all apart some of em i can name right away some not but they dont all sound same to me...lol
But there are plenty of sub $300 dollar iems nowadays that outright kill kilobuck iems from the past (Kaiser 10, KSE1200, UERR) so the standard is much higher and I do believe at least a good quality type c dac (I reccomend the Hidizs S9 Pro) is reccomended as a good starting point if you plan on furthering your audio journey.
But the thing with reviewers is that they listen to many many sources and iems, often not directly doing an A/B with the same pair of iems. So the differences won't immediately jump out at them because they aren't familiar with a single iem/dap.
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