[asquare3376]

It's HERE!!!

Our actual shippable and sellable inventory is still a couple days away! Those of you with pre-orders in with us should be happy to see this progress

Wowie!!! Don't ship mine. Will come and collect in person *big bear hug*

 

[TSAVJason]

Wowie!!! Don't ship mine. Will come and collect in person *big bear hug*

Hahaha remind me to be gone that day!! :thumbsup_tone1:

 

[Dillan]

I've always had the belief that the shorter the audio chain - the better. Great cabling and gear get you good sound but to me this dap outperforms any system as long as it can properly power the headphone being used.

Perhaps new toy syndrome but I've definitely always had the belief of fewer devices having superiority and in this case there's only one. I get more impressed each listen!

 

[Watcherq]

The Audeze and Sony should be set at standard gain not high gain. It loads the amp more appropriately. High gain would be used on cans that have higher power requirements.

On my SE846, I noticed that on high gain, the music sounds a little more forward, assertive even aggressive by a touch. It sounds 'rougher' like a bit of grains of sand. Not too irritating and can be even enjoyable but not laid back.

 

[TSAVJason]

On my SE846, I noticed that on high gain, the music sounds a little more forward, assertive even aggressive by a touch. It sounds 'rougher' like a bit of grains of sand. Not too irritating and can be even enjoyable but not laid back.

Thanks for giving me that. I'm not all that intimate with the SE846. I've spent lots of hours with the 1Z & 1A .....My comments were more specific to Sony's

 

[Dillan]

Are you vega + WM1Z people using any EQ? I have always kinda been against EQ and dsp in general and I'm finding I love the sound directly anyway but I was curious to hear if any of you are EQing with success and what your configurations looked like.

 

[gerelmx1986]

I have EQ 'ed to control bassy tracks and it is very responsive EQ

 

[pete338]

I have EQ 'ed to control bassy tracks and it is very responsive EQ

I understand you have the Z5 and the mdr z7..
Do you set on high gain when listening to them?

 

[gerelmx1986]

I have EQ 'ed to control bassy tracks and it is very responsive EQ

I understand you have the Z5 and the mdr z7..
Do you set on high gain when listening to them?

some times, mostly low gain and drive them fine at 45/120 for z5 and 70/120 for z7

 

[zardos]

I've always had the belief that the shorter the audio chain - the better. Great cabling and gear get you good sound but to me this dap outperforms any system as long as it can properly power the headphone being used.

Perhaps new toy syndrome but I've definitely always had the belief of fewer devices having superiority and in this case there's only one. I get more impressed each listen!

I feel the same. I have an expensive home stereo rig with 20k kimber cables + some headphone gear like HDVD800 and I think the 1Z tops all of that sq wise lol. I'm at about 200h pure listening time now, no burn in (I do not strongly believe in burn in)

 

[Whitigir]

Well, sitting atop of the summit fidelity would be a full blown desktop system and Stax , until you get there, the WM1Z is an excellent portable player

 

[gerelmx1986]

I am already trying to image the capabilities of the WM1A with balanced

 

[zardos]

Well, sitting atop of the summit fidelity would be a full blown desktop system and Stax , until you get there, the WM1Z is an excellent portable player

I owned a SR009 with tube amp. Sold both because I didn't like SR009's build quality for it's price. SQ was nice, yes, but a touch too bright for my taste. Z1 with HD800S and even with 800 sounds slightly better to me. Speed and highs from the SR009 were something special though.

 

[Whitigir]

I owned a SR009 with tube amp. Sold both because I didn't like SR009's build quality for it's price. SQ was nice, yes, but a touch too bright for my taste. Z1 with HD800S and even with 800 sounds slightly better to me. Speed and highs from the SR009 were something special though.

What did you use with 009 ? That matters a lot

 

[zardos]

What did you use with 009 ? That matters a lot

Amp was an SRM007t (not tII). I will never return to Stax. I kept my SE009 on a high quality headphone stand and you know what, after about 6 month the plastic clips for the headband size regulation broke. First one side, a few days later the other side, only from keeping it on the headphone stand. The new Orpheus would be a little more interesting I guess