Hello fellow Head-fiers
I am new here too.
I am a noob to the hobby (~6 months-but starting to get serious)
I started with a Sony WH1000-xm4 for work and watching Joshua Velour intro to audiophiles vids
Have appreciated the fine and detailed gear reviews here, and on Headphones.com as well as some by DNS Zeos Pantera, Chuckolatte and a few others on YouTube.
my current set up
IFi Zen DAC v2 to Zen Can with either balanced 4.4s between or a Douk Audio P2 tube amp sandwiched between (with 3 tone controls- enjoy that combo a lot). Home cans are 6XXs
recently added Sonore microRendu with LPS 1.2 to stream to the above set up, planning on setting up a Roon core using a Max Mini 2014 but still getting my music files organized for that as they were a bit spread out across machines (and CDs and vinyl). Home network is Google Fiber 1GB Wifi with 3 endpoints we can hardwire, 1 directly wired to the router.
work set up is an IFi micro iDSD Signature (used as Desktop) paired with HIFIMAN Arya
iems are Akko OH10 and Final A4000s and Apple earbuds for working out - had to mention the last pair as they were here before all the rest and they are still here (
travel dac/amp is a Hidizs DH80s to use with iPhone though I am on tbe road now and listening to the Sony’s as they pack up nicely in an after- market hardback zip-case
current problems
1) getting TIDAL to stream MQA from iOs via my iPhone 12 Pro Max to any of my DACS
2) figuring out audacity for ripping music from Vinyl -online instructions are mostly 10 years old
looking to add a Hiby R8 DAP to spice things up in the current DAC/Amp set ups including BT to the XM4s and direct connect to the rest of the gear to stream LDAC other hi-res which is currently not possible in my setup
Doc LeMaster