Ohh I see that's a helpful info

"I prefer more forward vocals and a wide soundstage."?

To my ears and most other peoples reviews, the XS have quite a large soundstage.

As far as driving it, my Asgard 3 on low gain with the knob at 9 o'clock is more then enough, depending on the recording.

There are several reasons why getting a replacement case won't necessarily solve the issue. One of the possible reasons are the cases and the earbuds has been factory set to exclusively communicate with each other and not other units. I don't know if this is the same for Moondrop, but this is how it works for Sony's TWS. Sony though will still provide helpful support and solutions. If you ever lost the case, you'd have to mail your earbuds back to sony or physically go to their service center so they can pair a new case with your earbuds.

I was responding to the last sentence, the rest is valid.

Takes a lot of knowledge to use. You can use other people's EQ settings such as oratory's or crinacle's, but they will not always meet your exact preferences.

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The name similarities were too great to ignore. I have a small menagerie of Hifiman headphones and while I’ve written about them individually at length here and on Head-Fi, I’ve never gotten a picture of the full setup. So here they are: from left to right – Shangri-La Jr, Sundara, and R7DX. The Sundara was acquired in early March 2020, and it’s still working fine, though the right earpad has started to tear in some places. Not bad for a Hifiman, eh? The SGL Jr was bought in mid-February 2022, and the R7DX was from late May 2022. Three different driver types (electrostatic, planar, and dynamic), 3 different earpad types, 3 different headband types, and three-ish different earcup shapes. I do admire a company having breadth and variety in their designs.

Sound-wise, all three are cut from the same cloth. Bright and airy sound all around. The SGL is the brightest but also the smoothest sounding, the R7 is the roughest and peakiest of them, while the Sundara is in the middle. SGL has the best comfort by far. All three are commendable headphones to me.

For source gear, the FiiO K9 Pro (AKM) handles DAC and regular amp duties, with XLR out to the CCS-modded Stax SRM-006tS. The 006tS is a new acquisition to replace my 006tA that died at a headphone meet last year. I spent some time and effort to repair the old amp, but I wasn’t able to find out what was wrong. So I bought another unit from Mjolnir Audio.

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As for Hi-Fi Rush the game, it’s a quirky, fun game. It’s at its core a 3rd person rhythm-based melee combat game, where you time your actions to the all-pervasive beat, mixed with some platforming in a linear adventure game. Visually, it’s cel-shaded, so it looks a lot like Borderlands, and its overall tone is quite similar to the newer Borderlands games (BL2+) too. Unsurprisingly, given its Japanese development studio, there are a few elements present that are more common in Japanese games – the one I noticed is that in conversation segments, there’s the large box at the bottom of the screen displaying the dialogue that’s being spoken alongside a 2D head render of the speaking character. My wife is playing Fire Emblem Engage these days, and dialogue sequences in that game have the exact same element. Curiously, while the game is titled Hi-Fi Rush, the start menu entry (I have the game from PC GamePass) says “Hibiki”, which seems to mean “echo” in Japanese and might be the internal title.

Nice cable, the one on my DT 770 is pissing me off

Thanks, I'm still keeping it because I like the price.

Amazon Music is a buggy mess. It will downsample everything that doesn't match your Windows sound setting and unlike other apps like Tidal, Qobuz, Foobar, etc. it won't change the bit rate to match the song.

People have been asking Amazon Music to have this very basic feature that other hifi streaming services have for years.

Hey, at least you do not get hungry!

Personally no. His iem list is alright but his headphone list is so crazy different from my own experience and tastes, especially when it comes to comments on timbre/detail/refinement

Watch for a sale price on 6XX and gift them to him at some point.

I'm not nearly that good my friend.

Looks good on him! DT1990 are one of those rare open backs that looks and sounds "edgy"

Just... here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm03wqLY3Nc

“An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.”

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They dont sell the case separately so... I guess I'm going to just buy a new pair (although idk)

I don't see why the case itself needs to be a different colour. I can understand wanting the iems themselves to be a certain colour.

Shouldn't you use EQ to compensate for errors in the headphone so the music isn't tuned to compensate for the deficiencies of the headphone you're monitoring with?

In terms of audio quality there’s no meaningful difference, but sometimes there is an EQ difference if the headphone has built in DSP, which is bypassed in wired mode. The Focal Bathys is an exception to that, it routes sound through its DSP even in wired mode (and as a result, consumes battery even in wired mode).

The Expanse also won't have those features without a good seal. I'd had to buy those only to find out that I need to EQ them anyway because they don't sit right on my head.

Of course it's all subjective but the muted atrocious treble of 660s is mainly the reason. Hd 600 and 650 scale sensationally off of tube amps especially SET amps leaving 660s far far behind. Also 660s is grossly overpriced

Okay, Thanks