Hinomotocho
Headphoneus Supremus
What would technically be the highest quality file/format the A15 can play?
What would technically be the highest quality file/format the A15 can play?
Flac, wav, aiff, apple losse in 24/192Khz
nice, using it with headphones out or line out?Well I am really surprised!!!
A Fiio E12A headphone amplifier just landed so I could not resist trying it out connected to my A17 while it was charging. I confess to having been a sceptic about any improvement to the AQ as the feed in is from analog out of the A17 so it made no sense that an amp could improve it.
Wrong.
The increase in air around the music really floored me AND the bass boost on the Fiio brought up the bottom end very nicely, much better than could be managed via the SONY custom controls. And it was far better and more "alive" than similar music fed into Sennheiser HD650's from a highly modded Benchmark DAC1 with digital feed in from a Meridian server.
So, using the output to HiFiman HE400s has been a real ear opener. I've yet to try it out on the A25 but I've no doubt the same experience lies ahead with it. And I'll fix up leads for the Sennheiser HD800 and see how that sounds.
Playing with these toys is such fun, particularly when you make an unexpected discovery! And the AQ via a headphone setup like this is a tiny fraction of the thousands of dollars needed to get similar (and maybe not as good) AQ from amps and speakers.
This is my current micro mini desktop speaker set
As I said in the a20 thread In fact if it wasn´t for the microsd slot, hires decoding and extended battery I would still keep my many years old A-866 - demoed the a25 on a shop and seemed like they both sound as good I assure you ! almost no difference in menus all the same filters are available - as well as bt
But.. am trying to source the ap/international a25, two more notches up the volume would be nice and fm radio is a must for me
shipping to europe there´s this eglobalcentral but feedback is mixed and still didnt answer my pre sales simple questions (2 days now) anyone with feedback on these guys ?
this is the Japanese version? and as you sound?
I had the European version and I remember well how much they differ and that is the terrible sound gives the European version, it is easier to listen to music from a cheap phone!
nice, using it with headphones out or line out?
well thks for your helpful comment (sigh) none of those adjectives really apply surely but probably you should have done what I did regardless of the source brand ?
well thks for your helpful comment (sigh) none of those adjectives really apply surely but probably you should have done what I did regardless of the source brand ?
Yesterday I made up my own less bulky connector between the A17 and the Fiio 12A Mont Blanc. I just took two plugs and silver soldered short heavy gauge wires between then and covered my sins with heat shrink tubing. AQ is fine + less bulky in the pocket.