Sonic Defender
Headphoneus Supremus
Hi matey, kindly excuse my noob question, but I'm curious as to why the headphones invalidate the hardware of the DAP?
Is it because you can't use balanced on bluetooth headphones and hence can only use one of the DACs in the player?
So what setup will you be using instead of the DP-X1?
Also, have you considered just replacing the headphones instead?
I'd heard that bluetooth headphones were not as good as regular ones? But I have little knowledge of this!
Bluetooth is a digital stream passed to the receiving device, so the headphone will have a simple DAC and amp in, effectively wasting the hardware of the DP-X1. And the Bluetooth headphones sound excellent. They would have to be very good for the purpose or I would simply as you say go back to wired headphones. I'll say it again here, within five years wired headphones will be on a significant decline for portable use, and we will even start to see flagship level headphones that are wireless. There is no stopping progress and wires are not progress, they are the past. Just my view on the subject.