Anouk
Headphoneus Supremus
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Hey everyone, I have been reading this thread with interest. I agree that the gear you get for the price you pay for it is not worth it in portable head-fi. That does not mean that I am not satisfied with my portable rigw hich i have now, it just means I indeed think i paid too much for it. I also think there should be more innovation in the portable amp market/that more diyers should enter the scene. I think they really can (and already do infact in some cases) make a difference.
I am now using the 5.5g imod +alo lod cable+alo recabled edition 9 with their new gxc cable. And yes you can totally use the ed9s in public, no need for bohtersome and unnatural sounding (to me at least) iems. (iems isolate better though). I am considering getting a portable vcap dock and different interconnects for my imod and see how that goes. I think everyone should go through their own journey and I think indeed everyone hears differently. I also think though that oftentimes on headfi difference in sound are made bigger then what they are in actuallity and it all of course depends on where you are coming from and what equipment you have used in the past.
What I am m ore disenchanted with however at this momen tis my home rig. I have a headroom maxed desktop amp+dac which i use with my computer an kimber usb cable. But it does not sound THAT much better then my imod rig +sr71a and the seem ehadphones. Sure the fullsize rig sound s bit better, more soundstage (wide and deep) a bit bette rbass and clarity but it is certainly not night and day. And htis is quite disturbing to me since I paid 1800 euro for that amp+dac+power supply alone...
It might be the ed9s because I have heard they do not react that much to different sources/dont scale that well but it still worries me...
It could of course be my ears...
please continue the great posts
Greetings, Anouk,
I am now using the 5.5g imod +alo lod cable+alo recabled edition 9 with their new gxc cable. And yes you can totally use the ed9s in public, no need for bohtersome and unnatural sounding (to me at least) iems. (iems isolate better though). I am considering getting a portable vcap dock and different interconnects for my imod and see how that goes. I think everyone should go through their own journey and I think indeed everyone hears differently. I also think though that oftentimes on headfi difference in sound are made bigger then what they are in actuallity and it all of course depends on where you are coming from and what equipment you have used in the past.
What I am m ore disenchanted with however at this momen tis my home rig. I have a headroom maxed desktop amp+dac which i use with my computer an kimber usb cable. But it does not sound THAT much better then my imod rig +sr71a and the seem ehadphones. Sure the fullsize rig sound s bit better, more soundstage (wide and deep) a bit bette rbass and clarity but it is certainly not night and day. And htis is quite disturbing to me since I paid 1800 euro for that amp+dac+power supply alone...
It might be the ed9s because I have heard they do not react that much to different sources/dont scale that well but it still worries me...
It could of course be my ears...
please continue the great posts
Greetings, Anouk,