pkcpga
1000+ Head-Fier
I happen
I can assure you that @jjacq is amping her HD800s properly. And her Stax. And her LCD3. She is no spring chicken, either, when it comes to headphones. Although, her loss of her LCD2.1 was my gain.
Audio definitely is a personal journey, but I will say that @jjacq's descriptions of headphones and IEMs that I also own or have extensive time with match my own perceptions fairly closely.
Just surprising that someone who owns similar headphones as myself would find the Aria so different. I also have hd800, LCD 3, gs1000 and hopefully soon Utopias (if they ever arrive). I listen to them through different DACs though, I love chords products so I use the mojo for travel and Dave for home. I have listened to the schiit Yggdrasil and disliked it's congested sound but that's the only schiit DAC I've heard so I don't know the other schiit DAC used. I wonder if the tuning on the demo Aria is slightly different than mine or if something happened to the unit.