Group, TY so much for helping me with my purchases of accessory items for se846. Updates:
1. I ordered a 10 pack of the Shure yellow foam sleeves and got those for only $1.05/pair (net cost) which seems like a bargain.
2. The Fiio X1ii arrived and I've spent hours listening. I trusted and took 'your' advice on that $90 purchase: I was absolutely shocked at how much more incredible and finely detailed it made - ecstasy !! The Sandisk sport I had been using now feels like crud and quite instantly I knew I'd be giving that away once I buy a 2nd Fiio (which will be an upgrade from this one !!). A few comments:
a. I like this Jeremy Camp ('The Way' is my fav' of all): That dear Jeremy must NOT use the finest in audio equipment, because, sadly, the quality of all of his recordings - even his 2009 "Live" cd - is clearly inferior to the 3 other fav' artists I'm favoring right now (Keane, Above/Beyond's Alex Vargas & Richard Bedford), & M.J.) - what a shame !!
b. A few songs 'leaped' at me out of the Fiio with the pure beauty newly exposed to me by using the Fiio ! One song, to which I've listened prob' 100Xs, doesn't even sound like the same song! Nicole/Enrique duet of Heartbeat -- go to the end of it - pretty much 'blew my mind' with what I now heard -- at the end of that song, they 'hit' you in the left ear and the right ear with all sorts of 'back and forth' vocals and instruments entering my left ear or right, and they even do 'vice versa' tricks with the sounds. So I wiki'ed that song and clicked around and read it's 2 producers who are wizards at 'special effects' and they were pulling some of the newer tricks with that duet.
3. I don't many things online, but maybe this will be a tip for a few of you: I had 'saved' some items in my amazon, and this time when I clicked in there were 15% off 'coupons' on many of the items (not all items-- EG, discount on the gourmet gummy worms, but not on the laptop...l).
4. The Fiio X1ii definitely has one software 'bug' to it, maybe 2 (the latter could be a setting issue - there's a whole lot of fine detail on the settings...), and what's frustrating is Fiio has 'the fix' but NO WAY can I understand their directions of how I'm to get the software updated with it - I have the software uploaded/downloaded into the device itself, but there's SUPPOSED to be some sort of special 'file' where it has to be placed in order to do the update. ONE TIME I booted up and it 'opened' with the screen showing the 2 basic files, but that was only because I randomly stumbled on it and didn't know until later that that HAD TO BE 'the right place' where I was to paste the 'fix' into one of those file folders....... dang it.... Also, IMO, Fiio's user instructions/guide is written HORRIBLE !! Whoever they let write the user guide was ESL ('ESL'=speaks English as a Second Langg')., at minimum, but prob' EThirdL or EFourthL !!
DEFINITELY right away I'll be buying the nicer Fiio this group suggested to me (which, if I recall correctly, you said costs $400). I am HOPING the user guide will have been written by ANYBODY other than the present doofus.
