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Bagpuss's home ??? LMAO..... he's only a tempary tennant, he's known to be a bit of a fraud where loyalty is concerned (see what I did there, two birds one stone)..... he'll be off as soon as, he just wants the possible glory of seeing the season out so he don't get called Judas.
Thanks for that, I'll prob invest in one like yours ie cable & serperate LOD.... the Chord quote is now seeming to be a bit of a good buy, some of these cables are mega expensive for their size..... I was toying with the idea of getting a Fiio-E17 (the new one) as my amp, its cost are reasonable but I've seen some reliability issues with their connects so that has made me a bit pensive.... any thoughts on amps.... say from $100 up.
Absolutely loved Walkmans, no other players got close with regard to SQ & style, my old Sony mp3 reminded me of that so much with its lil hiss in the background & rekindled my interest in portable music.
I'm going to be all over my Z-Series faster than a rabid rash infection when I get it..... I'll do a review of what I hear and what music I use (I'm not tainted by other brands so have no grudges to bear, well I do think my Sister's iPhone4 is crap for music but shes happy with it so I won't knock it)..... the only SQ I can compare it to is my former home set-up (now half sold so unusable)..... obviously a lot on here will see my kit on here as average or not very good, I can respect that but there is also a lot on here that I daresay are like me, personally I thinks that reviews should cover a wide spectrum as a hi-end review should be seen as a goal to strive for musically if your so inclined.
Lol, never said how long it will be his home, realise he will be off when season end's, worse kept secret of the year, aren't all of them temporary apart from AF & AW.
He was cleared of all charges, he is straight as they come, just ask rosie47
Anyway, I digress.....
I almost got that Chord ic myself, my guess is knowing chord it would most probably give a lot of boutique cables costing a lot more a run for their money.
But saying that I have had two types of custom cables since I found Head-fi and they both where an improvement for sure taking out cost factor alone, it's just again if you think they are worth the extra cost on some that are out there which is where a lot of reading comes into affect on this site as you cannot try them before laying down a lot of ££'s like you would with been able to demo some main stream cables like Chord from your local hi-fi dealer for a week before committing to that outlay.
Do not know much about the E17 apart from it does look a very nice well thought out ergonomic design and if SQ is any good should be a good amp with a dac for the price if the reliability is not a stumbling block of course.
I will send you a pm later, but I think the S master amp on my X and if the Z is the same or as reported an improvement with the MX amp i think you might be surprised how good the built in amp is when trying to match a portable amp to improve it by a considerable amount.
There are a lot of factors if you want to amp the Z like will you need a porta amp to drive harder full size cans as well (maybe in future) or just IEM's? what music do you listen to? what signature are you looking for in the amp? and then other usual ingredients like battery life expectations, size and other features to make checking all the boxes even harder.
It doesn't matter where we all start with equipment, budgets are usually the hindrance for approx 85% of us unhinged equipment junkies on here anyway - such is life
The journey can be a more educational experience working the way up the ladder as we all strive for more improvement in sound to what we currently have and can be a more sober and sweeter experience once you get to the top of what one might class as an acceptable summit of audio nirvana for ones self (the perfect set up, no more spending - does that ever happen? sorry about your wallet, blah blah blah!).
But then there are times like after owning several medium - top universal iem's all with drawback's to stop them being long term perfect solutions I did not want to stay on the spending cycle approx £150-300 every 1-2 years and had enough and just wanted to jump to the top of what money could buy getting the JH16pro customs in view they would be an investment that would last at least several - ten years at worse. Has that still stopped me striving for other customs now, err.... No (i'm so weak)
And does it detract from me enjoying my full size Sony Z1000 cans I purchased recently on Amp3 that cost (rrp) half the price of the 16pro's?.... thankfully No.
A mixed message there indeed, but all the fun of the journey I have had since finding this blood sucking money site two years ago!
In a nutshell....personally if that Z is good as or better than my X then I will stick my neck on the line and say you should be more than happy with the SQ alone when you receive it even before the amping route.
Look forward to that review ; )
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