iBasso Boomslang DB-1 & DB-2 and Toucan balanced portable dac and amp . pg 1, 19 , 25, 26 . . . .

[TWKOON]

PB1 TOUCAN than RSA SR71B how ？

 

[TWKOON]

(RSA sr71b balanced portable amp) vs (iBasso Boomslang and Toucan balanced portable dac and amp)
 
 
Who better？

 

[BebopMcJiggy]

Hard to say as SR71B is not really on the market yet.  Ibasso is making a new balanced portable amp as well I am pretty sure.  Keep in mind the SR71B is likely going to cost 3 times what the toucan costs.  Also you could make a Boomslang -> SR71B cable if you wanted.

 

[TWKOON]

thank you

 

[paulybatz]

Did some more listening...love this amp! Full and powerful!
As always I prefer to listen to a CD source, single well Sony CD player with silver IC feeding the Toucan! Simply fantastic, perfect with the HD650s

 

[trentino]

What IC cable do you use for that paulybatz?

 

[debitsohn]

i repurchased a toucan yesterday.  not exactly sure why, i mean it does sound good but the only balanced headphones i have are my t1.  wonder if i could get a jh16 cable balanced into a hirose connector... has anyone else done that with the jh16?

 

[warp08]

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i repurchased a toucan yesterday.  not exactly sure why, i mean it does sound good but the only balanced headphones i have are my t1.  wonder if i could get a jh16 cable balanced into a hirose connector... has anyone else done that with the jh16?

One of my TWag OM cables I have is balanced/Hirose terminated for use with the PB1.  JH16s sound great with it, but I usually prefer the JH13s with the iBasso PB1/DB1 combo.

 

[GeorgeGoodman]

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i repurchased a toucan yesterday.  not exactly sure why, i mean it does sound good but the only balanced headphones i have are my t1.  wonder if i could get a jh16 cable balanced into a hirose connector... has anyone else done that with the jh16?

One of my TWag OM cables I have is balanced/Hirose terminated for use with the PB1.  JH16s sound great with it, but I usually prefer the JH13s with the iBasso PB1/DB1 combo.

Why is that? Is it the bass? I preferred the 16s because of the bass when I demoed the 5s and 16s. 

 

[debitsohn]

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i repurchased a toucan yesterday.  not exactly sure why, i mean it does sound good but the only balanced headphones i have are my t1.  wonder if i could get a jh16 cable balanced into a hirose connector... has anyone else done that with the jh16?

One of my TWag OM cables I have is balanced/Hirose terminated for use with the PB1.  JH16s sound great with it, but I usually prefer the JH13s with the iBasso PB1/DB1 combo.

considering that moon audio cable.  how do you think the cable terminated to a mini 4 pin would be? then id get adapters with mini 4 pin to hirose

 

[BebopMcJiggy]

I have redone most of my cables to use the mini 4 pin xlr termination, it's versatile but if you believe in cable burn in then it is potentially a whole lot of sources and such to get all the little connectors burned in.  This way you only need 1 set (or possible multiples of the most used like 1/4" plugs or whatever) of the connectors and any headphone you reterminate to a 4 pin mini can be used with any (or whichever connectors you have) source.  It's not gonna be cheap though unless you do it all yourself maybe.  I've done a lot of it myself.  To be honest though my best cans have just a full sized 4 pin connector with an adapter for 2x 3pin & 1/4" though.  They never really leave the house and I've no intention of taking them out with me even if I can use them with a portable.  I don't own any good IEMs though, I'd probably pay someone else to make an iem cable if I wanted one, for overmolding if nothing else.
 
My good friend has a jh16 with twag -> mini xlrs and connectors... he seems to like it.  He did find the moon audio things to be kind of stiff for iems though with the rubber casing over everything (maybe not on their new iem cables dunno but for the minixlr -> end termination cables).  At least with the protector because the plug automatically is at a 90 degree angle from the socket.  Probably not so much of an issue with the hirose, he has just used mine for that as he doesn't own a toucan.

 

[debitsohn]

thank you so much for that response.  that pretty much answered all the questions i had lol. 

 

[jamato8]

I have the Twag for the JH13's and it does an excellent job. 

 

[wolfen68]

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I have the Twag for the JH13's and it does an excellent job. 

 Is your Twag balanced with these?  If so how do the JH13's sound from the PB-1 or Protector?

 

[debitsohn]

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I have the Twag for the JH13's and it does an excellent job. 

 Is your Twag balanced with these?  If so how do the JH13's sound from the PB-1 or Protector?

id like to know how it sounds pb1 vs protector, rather than either or.