Headphone4Life
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Also Audioengine has a nice little amp/dac combo for like $170 I think. I'm looking to get a new desktop setup and that's one of the amps I'm looking at.
Thanks. If I wasn't looking to upgrade my DAC too I'd give that one a shot, will have more power in the amp. I have an smsl DAC/amp for the speakers in my bedroom and was impressed by the sound, features and connection options for the price.Never heard the SD 793II but the few I've used sound good and for a good price. I have a Schiit Vali and I use the sApIII more, it has a cleaner sound than the Vali imo.
Chord Hugo is a rockin' product as long as you don't need to drive something a bit more serious. Fiio E17 is solid I still use it. Any combiniation of Schiit stuff is good... ATM I'm using a Schiit Wyrd -> Asgard 2 -> Bifrost MBit - > HE-400i
Testing out some EQ stuff based on some of the charts I've seen for this phone and my own quick tests. Equalizer APO software - config.txt settings are:
Preamp: -6 dB
Include: example.txt
GraphicEQ: 25 0; 40 2; 63 2; 100 1; 160 0; 250 0; 400 0; 630 0; 1000 -0.5; 1600 2; 2500 1; 4000 0.5; 6300 0; 10000 -6; 16000 0
For $299 phones were a pretty good deal. I've adjusted the bass roll off a touch, evened out mids a touch, and rolled back that 9-10k spike.
EQ definitely isn't set in stone yet... I just find digital sources / recordings that used digital reverbs / exciters / mastering software / normalizing / effects in the studio to just really add too much to the 10k+ hz range compared to the sound that is naturally being generated from the musicians. It's especially bad in movies and video games. I'm still playing around specifically with that frequency range on these phones.
I've never been much of a fan of EQ'ing. If I do anything its going up a few db's with the bass in the 20Hz to 60Hz range, just to add a little more rumble in my electronic music.
I only use the EQ on my X3II and its never sounded distorted. I might only go up 1or 2 db at most, I find it adds just a little more rumble to the sub-bass. Other than that I never EQ anything, though I might use the bass boost on my C&C BH every now and again.
it may not sound distorted, but if you're EQing up, it almost certainly is. It may be imperceptibly distorted, but distorted none the less. EQ is not made to add gain to the signal very well.