[kingpage]

Fingers crossed mine won't have a loose socket.

 

[ineedmorebase]

Has anyone here compared the E10 to a sound card? They both do the same functions... would liek to know; thanks!

 

[ClieOS]

Has anyone here compared the E10 to a sound card? They both do the same functions... would liek to know; thanks!

Which sound card? Sound card can go from $25 to $250+.

 

[ineedmorebase]

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Which sound card? Sound card can go from $25 to $250+.

essence stx, but was also curious about the general diferences...ty

 

[kingpage]

STX's power output is more comparable to E9, E10 will not drive hungry headphones as well as E9 or STX, based on specs.
 

 

[ineedmorebase]

STX's power output is more comparable to E9, E10 will not drive hungry headphones as well as E9 or STX, based on specs.
 

I guess it docent matter to me much , the most I would use is 250ohm, how about sound quality guys? Because most people say e10 sound better than e9 eventhough not as much power

 

[kingpage]

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I guess it docent matter to me much , the most I would use is 250ohm, how about sound quality guys? Because most people say e10 sound better than e9 eventhough not as much power

 
http://headfonics.com/2011/10/fiio-e10-review-a-lot-of-boxes-have-been-ticked/
 
Precisely why I ordered one. We won't find anything as good without spending hundreds of dollors, the DIY ODAC might be technically superior for close to $200.

 

[antberg]

i going to buy the fiioe10 because the hard way to buy an amp around here where i live and because i simply got no wallet.but from what i did read in the past days,there were find a lot of problem and issues form too many people.
fiioe10 should take concern about this,there are full of enterprises going to failure for less...

 

[Quest4theBest]

I ordered it ^_^! 75 shipped on ebay! Any idea how different my songs will sound from my iphone 4? The bass is incredible on the iphone4, and crap with onboard audio, any ideas with the e10 guys?

 

[kingpage]

E10 should have better sound quality than your iphone, and definitely will be much better than your onboard if what you're saying is true.

 

[creamsoda]

the e10 is more detailed than my j3 with BBE settings (BBE MP + regular BBE)... and the j3 already sounds significantly better than my ip4.  definitely a big step up with my earphones at least.  really depends on how well your earphones/headphones scale up.  friend couldn't hear a difference between macbook onboard audio vs the e10, but that was through portapros.

 

[Quest4theBest]

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the e10 is more detailed than my j3 with BBE settings (BBE MP + regular BBE)... and the j3 already sounds significantly better than my ip4.  definitely a big step up with my earphones at least.  really depends on how well your earphones/headphones scale up.  friend couldn't hear a difference between macbook onboard audio vs the e10, but that was through portapros.

Hard to imagine the xb500s sounding better than from my iphone, but im sure there will be a MAYOR diference between phone and e10 with the dt990 pro 250 ohm

 

[creamsoda]

i have a friend with the xb500, yeah i'm pretty sure you'll be hard pressed to find a difference at that level of transparency, dt990 will be no problem though, their potential for detail will definitely be better realized through the e10, not to mention better driven by the amp in the e10 vs the iphone!

 

[swbf2cheater]

I am not really an amp expert and wanted to know if PC > E10 > Lyr > HE500 will sound different than PC > E10 > E9 > Lyr > HE500
 
I ask because with dacs in this price range I always found their soundstage to lack in comparison to something like the E9.  The Lyr will sound different depending on the source, if it is double amped through something cheap like the E9 do you think the soundstage will be audibly bigger than if it were absent and running through only the E10? 
 
 

 

[kingpage]

Probably not, you should either get E9 or Lyr as amp to connect to E10's line-out.