H20Fidelity
Headphoneus Supremus
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Well there's definitely no squelch or blast of white noise, as the member describes, that I would find annoying, that's not right.
The Clips are not "lifeless and dull".
What they are is neutral and perhaps a little clinical for some. If I were to draw an analogy with hi-fi equipment, they are like Marantz gear. Certainly if you like warmth or smoothness they are not the way to go, but there's not a thing wrong with the sound quality of the Clip's.
The Clip+ downfall is it lacks separation, detail and soundstage properties by a large margin. it's overall signature and clarity is decent, but it just sounds like listening to an FM radio.I swear to me it does, it sounds like listening to music all jumbled together, there's certainly decent clarity but they just fall apart in other areas.
Ok, I just managed to reproduce the so called "pop" - it sounds like a hair on a vinyl record. It however is below my normal hearing threshold - I used my b2 and my e11 and pumped the volume. Then I used two tracks of silence and I heard it. The first thing I have to mention is that it doen't seem to occur every time. The second is that if I wasn't using silence but music my hearing would be damaged before the song was over and I definitely wouldn't hear anything. I still wonder if people reporting it has anything to do with the sensitivity of their headphones. There's no way I can hear that listening to music let alone being in a noisy environment as I don't use my C3 at home where there are no vibrations, loud noises and so on.
HELP STILL NEEDED
Ok unfortunately my experience with the C3 is really beginning to put me of this DAP.
I have just reloaded a couple of albums that I have re-ripped into FLAC format.....one is a 24/96 file which i have converted into 24/48 in WAV and the other is a CD I have just ripped to FLAC using the free version of dbPoweramp.
The 24/48 file has about three seconds of very high pitch and loud static between each track (not good for the ears) and the FLAC file just decides to stop after every track as though I have pressed the pause button!!
This is now becomming a bit annoying.....I bought this off a headfier on here who apparantly only used it for an hour and didnt like the small screen...although now Im wondering?? Do you think I have a faulty C3?
I dont want to have to sell this...but its looking more and more like that if I cant solve this problem.
Jay