😂😂I told my brother to slap me around if I ever start buying thousand dollar cables.

Reminder to enjoy your current setup and stop looking for deficiencies (or even wanting to upgrade just for the sake of it)

It sounds like he’s retesting them. He had a video recently about his new testing setup.

Condescending much?

Bruh, how are people willingly using twitter when it tells me to sign up after less than 2 seconds of scrolling, wtf

Of course, some people like more bass than others - especially if they're used to the boosted bass in consumer-level headphones as a matter of course. Happy listening......

This would only be that simple if capture and reproduction of sound were perfect. In reality, digital filters alter the signal. DSD avoid steep filters and retains the harmonics, whether you think they are audible or not

I was hoping Crinacle would collaborate on a set that is about $100 - $250 that is better than the Zero kind of like a Aria or even a Kato sounding 2 dd setup. Or the would retune the hexa to try to make a cheaper B2 dusk at like $100.

Why are people still buying Schiit stuff? This happens all the time.

Yes get the Atom, or if you want to spend money and have a nice knob get the element, or get a Grace m900 (Fuc*ing delightful), or a Topping DX3 Pro (if you want simple, single box on the $200 tier).

Wow, thank you for the super detailed answer! Excited to mess around with this

So he's going to rerank over 1000 iems, from years passed, based on his memory of them? That's a bad idea.

god bless your ears, better than $50k oscilloscope

Agreed, but there is some merit to taking into consideration the opinions of a guy who has listened to, like, all of the IEMs.

for a few reasons actually :

1. they make good headphones (maybe (never tried them (never will)))

2. they produce their stuff in america (like 80% of high end gear manufacturers (but don't tell them)))

3. people are stupid (they are)

My friend was happily using his knockoff AirPods. When he made me listen to something on it, it was just 1k and nothing else

You literally can argue that because this claim is wrong . More samples at a lower bit depth isn't more information and higher sampling frequency past the nyquist frequency isn't actually going to capture more of the 20-20,000hz frequency range anyway. Redbook CD with pcm is already sufficiently high sample rate to reproduce the entire wave form in the range of human hearing (which is beyond what the entire adult population can hear anyway, so 100% of the people buying dacs don't hear to 20khz) the extra sampling frequency of dsd thus isn't capturing more information, its just using higher sample rate as a substitute for the higher bit depth of pcm.

Do quantization errors exist in pcm? Yes. Do quantization errors exist in dsd? Also yes. Is the noise caused by these errors inside the audible frequency range? No. But im sure your cat would prefer you use 196khz pcm instead of CD

OPUS gang rise up.

Go check the frequencies produced by real musical instruments. You will see that they by far exceed 20khz. Of course, we cannot hear these, but as they are harmonics, they interact with the audible range of sound and we are perfectly able to notice when they're missing

Thoughts

Or auditory hallucinations

>1 bit samples, might you. Which do not replicate sound wave in any way, unlike PCM.

That's wrong. To replicate dynamic range of the analog signal, each sample is encoded to be played back at higher or lower frequency than the one before it. With at least 2.8 million samples per second, this creates a much better capture of the sound than anything PCM

That's funny that you chose ESS as an example, because recent AKM chips, (pre and post factory fire) all include a direct DSD path with a simple low pass filter.

There are also Sony's S-Master class D amp technology that send DSD directly to the amplification stage. That wouldn't be possible if DSD wasn't a faithful representation of the analog signal.

Well for me it was just one drop and they are gone. Maybe there was a drop in quality, they are manufactured in china now, maybe your pair was better

people put too much stock in someone else's rankings, reviews and targets

The capture of live recordings is limited by the micrphones sure... but losses is lossless in the sense you can fully recreate a sinusoidal wave form in the frequency ranges of human hearing. The math supports this. If you are suggesting pcm is incapable of storing some sort of data that can be captured by dsd then id love to hear what exactly that is. The only real reason to use dsd as a format is to avoid the errors introduced when converting dsd to pcm which isnt a problem if the audio was recorded in pcm to begin with. So its not so much that pure dsd is superior than pure pcm that it is that pure pcm and dsd are theoretically superior than converting between the two.

So sure, if you are trying to listen to the small portion of recordings that is natively dsd then having a dsd dac is the right choice but thats not actually going to sound better than if the same exact session had been recorded straight to pcm and then played back with pcm instead.

And yes, I have a dsd dac

Hoh wow 👏

The real question is : do you need all of that information to enjoy music conventionally? No. And if you were super keen on digital artifacts and maximum performance? Well, unless you're a superhuman with higher hearing resolution, many studies state that it's still just snake oil.