[cirodts]

   
Why are you using a Grado if not for that sound, which is sweet and clear ? 

 
I love their house sound with most music. Cannot tolerate the lack of bass and sub bass though. 

grado and it sounds great but with certain songs the sound is a little sharp.

 

[Dobrescu George]

  grado and it sounds great but with certain songs the sound is a little sharp.

 
For sure ! 
 
I love that sharpness. 
 
Exactly like being at the north pole, listening to them glaciers clashing into one another , creating those sparks and shiny noises. 

 

[Koukol]

 

  With the SR125's...yes.
Imo it's because the X5ii has an EQ. (I don't know if the Ibasso does)
 
Just reduce around the 1K-4K frequencies that are often creating the harshness from a HP like the SR125's
I have to do this a lot with my brick walled CDS.

 
 
 
 

 
Why are you using a Grado if not for that sound, which is sweet and clear ? 

 
I love their house sound with most music. Cannot tolerate the lack of bass and sub bass though. 

All my HP's (AKG, Grado and Sennies) are great but not perfect.
Yes, the Grado's are clearer (less veiled) than the 600 but the inherent sizzle makes listening to badly recorded music unbearable for me.
 
Unlike many others here I have no problem tweaking music with an EQ.
After all every HP we own has its own EQ setting (curve).
 
I also make small adjustments with my Plasma TV settings for imperfect DVD/BDs.

 

[cirodts]

 
All my HP's (AKG, Grado and Sennies) are great but not perfect.
Yes, the Grado's are clearer (less veiled) than the 600 but the inherent sizzle makes listening to badly recorded music unbearable for me.
 
Unlike many others here I have no problem tweaking music with an EQ.
After all every HP we own has its own EQ setting (curve).
 
I also make small adjustments with my Plasma TV settings for imperfect DVD/BDs.
 
In a perfect World

quite right, the grado to rock are awesome but with bad records can not hear.

 

[Dobrescu George]

 
All my HP's (AKG, Grado and Sennies) are great but not perfect.
Yes, the Grado's are clearer (less veiled) than the 600 but the inherent sizzle makes listening to badly recorded music unbearable for me.
 
Unlike many others here I have no problem tweaking music with an EQ.
After all every HP we own has its own EQ setting (curve).
 
I also make small adjustments with my Plasma TV settings for imperfect DVD/BDs.
 
In a perfect World

 
You would have an easier time screeching nails on a table than listen to bad recorded music with grados. 
 
I use EQ with everything, except ie800, because I actually find their signature ideal for my music 99% of time. Very far from neutral, but it is what I enjoy. 
 
The day they create a perfect headphone, Imma be happy.

 

[ruthieandjohn]

I just purchased a FiiO X5 II, I love its sound (better than my FiiO X3), but I am embarrassed to ask...

How do you turn it on?

No, silly, I CAN turn it on -- by holding the power button with the blue light on the side. It then times out while music is playing, in that the display goes dark, though the music continues. I then have to again touch the blue-lighted power switch before I can make the scroll wheel do anything. When I am done, I am not quite sure how to put it into the standby mode from which it wakes up quickly.

As I said, I can make it work, but I feel like I am not doing it right, and the Quick Start guide that comes with it really doesn't cover this simple stuff.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[397324]

Hi
 
The screen goes black after a certain time as set in the menu system (Screen Timeout), this is normal. Some buttons can be used while the screen is blank, again set in the menu system (Key-Lock Settings). I have mine set to Lockscreen 3. This gives you the most bottons that remain active when the screen is off.
 
From memory, it's the power button to re-active the screen, the centre button to pause and unpause the current track and the bottom two buttons to track skip back and forth and fast forward and rewind the current track if you keep them pressed.
 
So all the above-mentioned buttons act just like as if the screen was on really.
 
Regards
 
Darren

 

[ruthieandjohn]

  Hi
 
The screen goes black after a certain time as set in the menu system (Screen Timeout), this is normal. Some buttons can be used while the screen is blank, again set in the menu system (Key-Lock Settings). I have mine set to Lockscreen 3. This gives you the most bottons that remain active when the screen is off.
 
From memory, it's the power button to re-active the screen, the centre button to pause and unpause the current track and the bottom two buttons to track skip back and forth and fast forward and rewind the current track if you keep them pressed.
 
So all the above-mentioned buttons act just like as if the screen was on really.
 
Regards
 
Darren

Thanks so much @Darren Cotter   I will change my lock screen settings.

 

[397324]

No worries John, happy to help.
 
I was just about to ask you what headphones/IEM's you were using, but decided to look at your profile. What in the name of all that's holy is going on there?

 

[Koukol]

Yeah I keep mine on lock-screen 3 too.
 
If I need to scan through a song (or go to the next) when EQing I just push the power button to put it in sleep mode.
When finished I push it again to get back to the EQ controls.

 

[shamar75]

Hi,
 
Could someone explain some of the new FW 2.0 features?
 
I am unsure what the following settings mean and do not know when you would use each option:
 
 
 
Play Settings -> Lowpass filter mode  (Gradual/Steep) 
Play Settings -> ReplayGain (None/Track/Album)
Play Settings -> Fixed level (0db/-3db/-6db)
System Settings -> SPDIF out (D2P/DoP)
 
 
 
Thanks very much,
 
Shannon

 

[ruthieandjohn]

No worries John, happy to help.

I was just about to ask you what headphones/IEM's you were using, but decided to look at your profile. What in the name of all that's holy is going on there?

"My name is John and I'm a Gradoholic!" See here.

So far, I have used the FiiO X5ii with my Grado GS1000i's (to my mind, my best Grados), my Grado RS2e (best on-ear Grados for me), and AKG K3003i IEMs, driving directly from the headphone jack for a portable setup.

For a desktop setup, I have used the serial digital output to my Schiit Bifrost Multibit Uber USB2 DAC, going then to either my Schiit Lyr 2 amp to my Grado PS1000e headphones, or to my HiFiMAN EF-6 amp and to my HiFiMAN HE-6 headphones.

All sound really great.

 

[thefitz]

  Hi,
 
Could someone explain some of the new FW 2.0 features?
 
  System Settings -> SPDIF out (D2P/DoP)

I asked about that one too, and couldn't get an answer. My FW 1.1 plays DSD out of coax to my Bifrost (that isn't DSD) and it plays just fine - I wonder what the "new" mode is?
 
With the X5ii arriving, I go X5ii coax -> Bifrost -> Lyr 2, and it's fantastic. The Bifrost has so much more juice than the line-out of any DAP, it unlocked a tonne of headroom.

 

[freddy315]

I love the Lockscreen 3 feature.  Its the one thing that has kept me from getting the X7.  I can stop or skip songs in my car without having to take my eyes off the road.

 

[freddy315]

Regarding play settings:
 
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/786112/official-x5-2nd-gen-beta-firmware-download-and-discussion-thread-version-1-27-library-search-function-replaygain-filter-options/60#post_12311847