[Steve160k]

Find and download a DSD format of Hotel California, the whole album. Once you hear it for yourself, you will have the CL2 in your pocket everywhere you go from there on out.
What setting are you ripping your CDs at?
Windows has a pretty bad codec and disk copier from what I remember.

Find and download a DSD format of Hotel California, the whole album. Once you hear it for yourself, you will have the CL2 in your pocket everywhere you go from there on out.
What setting are you ripping your CDs at?
Windows has a pretty bad codec and disk copier from what I remember.

Copied on lossless WMA or WVA.

 

[Kitechaser]

Copied on lossless WMA or WVA.

Just looked at windows settings, wow it's pretty bare bones.
Give this a read.
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-cd-ripper

 

[Steve160k]

Try using exact audio copy. It is free, do a test track and see if it changes things.

I tried downloading & setting EAC a couple of years ago it was so complicated & kept freezing I gave up!

 

[Kitechaser]

I tried downloading & setting EAC a couple of years ago it was so complicated & kept freezing I gave up!

The link has a paid version that you can try for free for 21 days I think. Give that a shot.
Edit: http://www.dbpoweramp.com

 

[Steve160k]

Just looked at windows settings, wow it's pretty bare bones.
Give this a read.
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-cd-ripper

Thanks for the link - which do you or others here use?

The link has a paid version that you can try for free for 30 days I think. Give that a shot.

Is that the software that you use? Will look at that tomorrow - time for zzzsss over here now.

 

[Kitechaser]

My music is all digital. No cds.

Thanks for the link - which do you or others here use?

Is that what you use? Will look at that tomorrow - time for zzzsss over here now.

 

[AManAnd88Keys]

Thanks for the link - which do you or others here use?

I have been using EAC for two years now and find it to be pretty much perfect for CD rips.

 

[Kitechaser]

Just recieved my Spiral dots size medium small. I was using mediums before, and use mediums with every other iem.
Now I am able to push the CL2 as far into my ears as physically possible....without losing the seal.
Bass hits harder than the Tennmaks, no loss of clarity, and bigger sound. Feels like my jaw is getting hammered by the bass.
DEEP INSERTION and wide bore (5mm+)is key.
What a nice surprise. + guitars have an even crunchier sound to them.
Bass feels more like a subwoofer.

Update.
My ears are getting used to the new tips. Going back and forth with the Tennmaks and the MS Dots, and the SQ is best out of the Dots. Sometimes they slip in too far, and it is very uncomfortable, hopefully that changes soon.

 

[Duncan]

Well - approx 80 hours in & still waiting for these to convince me to keep them - until I just listened to Freya Ridings on YouTube as above. Wow!!. Not sending them back now they are giving a hint of what most on here say they are capable of. But why does all the music from CD's I have ripped on lossless to Windows Media Player not sound like the YouTube gig of Freya above?? I have not heard better. Is there a better way to copy CD's than on to WMP?

Yes, it is quite annoying, I have no idea if this is the difference between the 48khz sample rate / clock used on YouTube versus the 44.1khz rate for CD, however quite often CDs will sound less well constructed, with the YouTube videos having a punchier / richer sound.

That isn't always true though! - my personal CD ripper of choice is dbPoweramp, been a paid user for several years now - pretty much perfect settings as soon as installed (I also have HDCD DSP agree in the small hope of having some of those discs following around), the only downside to it that I have seen is the for a lot of newer releases that the cd data is missing, so track / album information isn't loaded (thankfully it's picked up from the CD text!)

Anyway, if you go down that route and get stuck drop me a PM, and I'll help as best as I can.

 

[Azanulimbar]

My ZX300 is on its way, can't wait to try this DAP with my CL2!

 

[Duncan]

Ignoring that YouTube is generally considered to have mediocre sound quality, this to me is epic.

 

[Wiljen]

Woohoo! CL2 on its way - been waiting to try this one out.

 

[Kitechaser]

Santana "Batuka"
Those electric guitars on the CL2 will be the death of me



Gary Clark Jr. Wails on the guitar

 

[Kitechaser]

Woohoo! CL2 on its way - been waiting to try this one out.

Try them with wide bore deep insertion tips (Roll roll roll), and a copper cable
Looking forward to reading your review.

 

[mahesh]

sounds gooood on cl2 or on anything