I think it's Cirrus Logic SG-1🤔

I have personally checked multiple sites like that sell it, all of them only mention it’s from cirrus logic. None mention specifically which chip

Sorry, butbisnit hard to check what chip it uses on producer page?

If you wanted different, then I’d say you made a better choice. To me, the OG Clears are an HD6XX on steroids. It just takes everything and does it a lot better.

I’m in the same boat. OG Clears felt like a perfect upgrade across every aspect. Now I’m looking at Utopias and my curiosity is growing.

The E10K is likely closer to how it should be technically and laptops can do whatever to the sound. A decent solid state amp and dac should sound pretty similar to each other. Like my iBasso DC05, an Apple dongle, 789 and L70 all sound essentially the same with just different noise floors and power outputs.

Yeah, HD600 cost around $400 in where I live (Indonesia), but you can still get the likes of S12 or Kato for normal price. Some sellers unfortunately intentionally mark up the price because something is very popular though, like how Hexa costs above $100 here.

Hello Fresh is solid. They're ridiculously pushy once you cancel since they just send you codes and reminders nonstop after that but the food is really good. Every meal was head and shoulders better than anything I cook on my own.

It's really good for countries with exorbitant mark up on headphones and iem prices or even speaker. like Sennheiser HD6XX cost $400! or Sennheiser HD800S costs $2000!

Genuinely speaking: no.

In a more technical sense: fuck no

The LCD2 is absolutely not “mid fi” lol

Congrats on the lcd2. I just got mine last week and honestly think I could stop here. I can't see how anything could sound better. Mine is Pre fazor with dekoni elite hybrid pads , and no eq. Enjoy!

Funnily enough, my KSC75 also died after around a month. Had PortaPros die on me before after fairly short amount of time. Then a wire ripped out after a moderate accidental tug on another pair. KOSS build quality/reliability is not what i would call good.

Oh yes, I know there are plenty of non-harman tuned IEMs. I meant mainly that is what happens when chi-fi is discussed on this subreddit. I'm not an IEM person, but new stuff is always cool. More of the same stuff being posted is tiring after so long lmao

I keep up with dudes who review chi fi stuff, but I’ve never bought any because the Z1r, e5000, and ie600 exist

I wouldn't say so, there's plenty of decent options far from Harman, although it's definitely an endless rabbit hole.

Agreed. I’ve heard a lot of Hifiman that impresses me.

Audeze are built waaay better tho (outside their low line). I’ve also never heard of Audeze or Focal DOA.

Gah something about the volume knob on the DAC and headphone jack drives me nuts. Ifi is good stuff though.

I have no interest in chi-fi. Seems most of it is just a dick measuring contest between who can get the closest to the harman target. It's just boring

I just got a pair of hd660s’ and am waiting on the dx3, these will be the first pair of headphones I own as well as my first dac. Although I don’t mind spending more money in the beginning to lengthen the time needed for an upgrade, I would like to “test the waters”, and for a couple hundred bucks I feel the little topping may help with that.

Which planar headphones would have more bass?

I gave up on chi-fi. They introduce cheap iems every month. Neither me or my wallet can keep up.

I have 660S and recently tried some Bayers to see if they have the bass I want for more thumpy electronic/pop music because of course that's what the HD6 series lacks. I landed on the lower end 770 Pros (I got the black Limited ones) and I have to say I'm quite happy. They're well tuned despite being a bit more recessed in the mids, and I can deal with the high treble when it's in those electronic genres because it's not overbearing there. So now I have closed backs with more thump and treble for electronic, rap and pop and my HD660S for guitar driven music like metal and rock. I'm good with this setup, and I think having the two pairs gives me a lot more precision than having just one endgame set. But we'll see, as these things never seem to stay stable for long.

Definitely EQ them. The clarity is so much better once EQ'd. Can't remember the EQ I use for mine. But after EQ, I can't imagine anything sounding better. Maybe something with the mids and lows of audeze, but highs of a beyer dynamic?

>I was under the impression that an amp/dac should not change the sound significantly. Yet the changes I am hearing are significant.

Oh they do sound different, sometimes drastically. I used to repeat after other people that "all of them sound the same", but by chance, I have access to quite a bit more to listen and A/B tests to review and now I have to take back the "they all sound the same" statement.

The thing is we are dealing with imperfect analog devices. Moreover, some manufacturers intentionally make the sound different. For example, some Shanling devices, such as the M6 Ultra (my review), are deliberately tuned for a thicker low-end, which happens to intensify the sense of depth in the soundstage. Some Fiio devices such as KA3 are brighter in the treble, which can trigger the "wall of sound" illusion sometimes. Recently I reviewed a weird dongle from a company called ACMEE, and that one has noticeably more upper midrange that the soundstage overshoots, placing the vocals right at the back of my head.

One may say "not the same volume", "louder is better". Sure. But then, when I deliberately push the volume of one device louder and it still cannot reveals details that the other one can at a lower volume, then one has to admit that something is going.

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Edit: one more point: some gaming laptop has very poor on-board DAC/amp. That can be the cause of the problem as well.