I do most of my listening using the 4.4mm balanced output of my Sony ZX300. I like the 4.4mm jack because it has a solid feel to it, so it makes the most sense for me to stick with that and use an adapter. As the xDSD's balanced 3.5mm TRRS is less common it may work out better to have a cable with a more common jack eg 2.5mm and use an adapter, then if you decide to change to another device it will be an easier transition instead of getting a new cable.
I would not do this since it looks like the xDSD is the only device you have with balanced output. If you are going to have a cable made, put a 3.5mm TRRS wired for Sony.
That said, if you want to go with the 2.5mm for Astell & Kern balanced, I have the Moon Audio Silver Dragon cable (https://www.moon-audio.com/silver-dragon-headphone-cable-v3.html) for the HD800’s that I sold earlier this year. Condition is new. Make a reasonable offer and it could be your’s if you live in the US.
Can anyone who owns the xDSD and has spent some time testing out the 3D+ feature tell me if they notice a difference with it on? I just tried my new xDSD out last night for the first time, and can't say I did. But maybe down the line I will? Anyway, please let me know if you did notice a difference with it on or not, if and you did, please offer some details and thoughts about those differences.
I very much hope that iFi considers moving to the 4.4mm connector for all their devices. If manufacturers switch to it, we could settle on the 3.5mm and 4.4mm as the standard connectors and eliminate all others, and the mess of cables and adaptors.
Quick question/observation. When I connect the xDSD via Bluetooth to my iPod touch and use Neutron as the player, the app reports the active connection as iFi HQ (aptX). This is just the hardware tag you guys gave the xDSD and not Neutron magically connecting my iPod via aptX, yes?
Can anyone who owns the xDSD and has spent some time testing out the 3D+ feature tell me if they notice a difference with it on? I just tried my new xDSD out last night for the first time, and can't say I did. But maybe down the line I will? Anyway, please let me know if you did notice a difference with it on or not, if and you did, please offer some details and thoughts about those differences.
The 3D+ feature is effective for some old recordings and less effective for recent recordings generally speaking. In the past, such as 60's or even 80's, recording engineers assumed to playback the music on speaker system at home and sometimes extreme mixing method was applied, such as a wood base of a jazz trio assigned left channel only for example. It is OK because the wood base can reach both ears on speaker system but headphone is not. In this case, the 3D+ switch is very effective to correct proper soundstage back. I have never experienced such extreme recording technique from recent audio sources though.
Another example is that it is good result in case too much reverberation exists on the music, such as the recording at an old church. By using headphone, excessive reverberation makes my brain confuse where I am positioning. In this case, I use 3D+ switch to bring the sound outside my head which reduces the confusion of my brain.
In conculusion it is good option to listen some music souce comfortably.
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