Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
Thank you, guys! I am observing a slight hissing when using the Sands with my FiiO UTWS5. I do not observe this when using them with my 7Hz Timeless or RAPTGO HOOK-X. Right now I have both the Sands and the HOOK-X connected to my Mojo 2. I can hear a faint hissing with the Sands when the playback is stopped. I have paused a song on the Amazon Music App. I can also hear it when I open UAPP. With the HOOK-X, I cannot hear anything.
After further testing, it goes like this:
Sands + BTR7 = dead silent + sounds truly Amazing!! No EQ.
Sands + Qudelix 5K = dead silent + sounds Super Fantastic, just differently from the BTR7! No EQ.
Sands + Mojo 2 = slight hiss + sounds really nice but I have to EQ to decrease the lower treble region
Sands + UTWS5 = slight hiss + sounds fine. No EQ
100: Bass enhancement mode, currently using the HOOK-X stock cable as my PAC480 cable is in the mail
All of my other IEMs and Headphones are dead silent with all of my sources. I am usually listening from my Android phone via Bluetooth (LDAC, LHDC) but for this test I have connected everything to my phone using my ddHiFi USB C cable. Listening to .WAV files saved on my phone using UAPP. Also Amazon Music Unlimited and YouTube.
Yesterday, something weird happened. I have the Sands for some days now, they must have more than 150 hours burn in time/playback time by now. However, only today I've started listening to them. So yesterday, I decided to try another pair of eartips I have. The right IEM tip was giving me a bit of a hard time to pull it off, like it was stuck. Anyway, I placed the other tips on and something was not right, like the right channel was not playing fully or properly. Like I was having channel imbalance. I did some tests, too. After about one hour, while I was listening to music, the right channel opened up and started to play like the left channel again. I did the channel imbalance tests again and both channels were sounding identical. Since then, I have not observed any channel imbalance. But the slight hissing is there.
Do you think that I might have broken something? I do not think so, because I've examined both of them (L/R) and nothing seems broken.
PS: @Redcarmoose , @Dsnuts , suggest me one album to discover what the Sands can truly do, please.
PPS: the stock Tansio Mirai Sands cable does an unbelievably fantastic job on my HOOK-X!!!
The Sands IEM does not generate hiss, but the way the treble is parlayed with the Sands is unique to the IEM world. Hence the air sound of your amp could actually be brought to life and into a level of hearing due to the upper treble shelf.Which tips are you, guys, using with the Sands, and why?
I am using the stock, so far, because , my PAC480 cable has not arrived, yet, due to Royal Mail strikes. I'm currently using the HOOK-X stock cable.
If you please, share the genre(s) you're listening to, and your audio chain. Mine is described right above.
Thank you
So it’s in your equipment upstream from the Sands. Messing with cables is fun with the Sands but also limited to which cables seem to work. The PAC480 is solid gold for how it somehow rearranges the guitar tone and still emphasizes such sounds but at the same time produces this silky smooth quality to the treble, also adding bass tone. When you have somehow found the DAP/Cable synergy then the Ohhh moment arrives which lets you know that the Sands is for you and that it’s unique in the world of IEMs, therefor valuable!
I will use the ISN C2 cable and PAC480 as the only two cables that seem to work (for me). I use the Sony WM1Z and a generic set of wide-bore tips, as I want to maximize the size of the generated sound stage.
Music happens to be anything special with guitar which has been processed to come forward in the mix. Like heavy treble emphasis in guitar processing effects in the recording. This seems like the opposite of what someone should/would use the Sand for but it works as a way to hear into such tones and experience a style of guitar harmonics never heard, at least never heard before by me?
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Song by Theatre of Tragedy
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