[sweetwilly]

So last night I was just sitting in my room enjoying my new beyers, and decided to put on Cynic's "Focus" album. One of, if not my favorite album of all time. The DT-880s do a wonderful job with this album, except for one thing: distorted guitars. The clean passages sound amazing, but anytime there is a guitar with any sort of distortion, the 'phones produce a slight buzzing sound. I try to ignore it, but really can't. It's not like in the low bass, like one would expect, but it seems apparent somewhere in the middle frequencies; and not always with just distorted guitars. I'm not sure if this is just an amp/source problem--I'm running them out of an X5 > Corda Move combination. Has anyone else had this problem? Maybe there is just a hair near the driver or something.

 

[sweetwilly]

Well, I think it's a source problem. Seems to be gone when I run the same music out of my computer. Maybe something I can fix with a better i/c. I'm just using the cheapie that came with the MOVE. Does anyone know of any place that sells line-out dock cables for the iAudio X5?

 

[uraflit]

i heard the x5 doesnt have a very good line-out. even the headphone out was said to be better.

 

[Pibborando]

Don't use the line-out. It's got extremely attenuated bass roll-off and boosted treble. The HP out is totally flat. I don't know how a better IC would solve this problem... it's probably just the X5, but I haven't noticed weird stuff like this with mine. Are you using Rockbox? If not you should, and keep the volume at 0dB.

 

[sweetwilly]

Yeah, figured out my problem, I'm stupid. The headphone out gets completely distorted when you turn it up max or near maximum volume. It's now at 0dB, sounds great.

 

[tbonner1]

Improving the quality of the line out cable that came with the move might make some difference, but not much being of such short length.

 

[d-cee]

ahh

glad to hear it was easily fixed