Luxury & Precision (LP) W4, Successor to Their Popular W1/W2 USB Dongle is Here!
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Actually you can get a mini PC from AliExpress for less than US$100. It won't be a particularly great PC, but more than enough for the occasional PC stuff such as updating the W4 and as a general emergency backup for your main system. They can also be used as basic retro gaming rig if wanted. Most of you will spend more for a pair of decent IEM these days and a mini PC, unlike a tablet, has no battery to worry about in the long run.
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If you have the headphones connected to W4 and have them on your head when using laptop or phone do you get a pop noise?
Sorry I didn't see that they had already answered above...
I don't know what you're referring to with "pop noise" but the thing I noticed with the W4 is that despite having set the exclusive use of the application in the drivers and in Foobar2000 (wasapi - shared), it still makes me hear the noises of other applications (youtube. .. etc... etc...). This doesn't happen with asio in Foobar2000. In fact, in Foobar2000 the wasapi drivers make me choose them only in the shared version and I didn't understand how they can be set in exclusive mode. With the Asio instead it conveys all the audio stream of Foobar2000 in the dongle, cutting out all the other windows sounds.
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Another shameful reason for a product in the price range.. lol
Is it worth to upgarde from Questyle M15 and DC04 Pro (I have both of them) to L&P W4?
If I were you I would think about the RU7 before buying another delta-sigma
Thanks but I had RU6 before and it sounds bad for me compared to other R2R stuff that I tried (like Hiby RS6 or Hifiman EF-400). Dunno if they make any progress with RU7…
I start by saying that the RU7 is very different from the RU6... but the question I have in mind is... with which IEMs/headphones did you listen to the RU6? It seems strange to me not to appreciate the RU6 (everyone has their own tastes anyway) but I think maybe there was a synergy problem... the RU6 prefers very neutral iems/headphones and not pumped up on bass or other frequencies. Let's say that it prefers almost boring IEMs/headphones... in fact it has an incredible synergy with the Blessing 2/3 and with all the very analytical IEMs/headphones.
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Has anyone observed difference in SQ between Low and High gain?
I am using fairly hard to drive ThieAudio Monarch MK2 and seems like in High gain mode they "open up", bass gains more authority and thump, soundstage increases, and they sound more "effortless" in general.
Same thing was with W2, not sure if this is a real thing though, and not just combination of slightly different volume and expectation bias. Whatever it is after switch I've found them easily on par with BTR7 for dynamics, soundstage and bass, while being more detailed with bettter sound layering.
I am using fairly hard to drive ThieAudio Monarch MK2 and seems like in High gain mode they "open up", bass gains more authority and thump, soundstage increases, and they sound more "effortless" in general.
Same thing was with W2, not sure if this is a real thing though, and not just combination of slightly different volume and expectation bias. Whatever it is after switch I've found them easily on par with BTR7 for dynamics, soundstage and bass, while being more detailed with bettter sound layering.
I'm looking forward to testing this out for myself in the coming weeks, but I'm not surprised (and happy to hear!) that you notice a difference between gain settings with an IEM like Monarch Mk2. This has generally been my experience with DD/planar transducers when increasing Gain on a well-implemented amp. More available current allows those kinds of drivers to move more, which translates into the kind of changes to dynamics and therefore stage perception that you're reporting.
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