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Recognize Sound Quality and Beats are born.

Recognize Build Quality and Hifiman is born.

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Objectivism and Subjectivism produce each other.

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Comfort depends on discomfort,

Harman is tested by V-shape,

Highs are determined by Lows,

Mids are Harmonized by Voice Coils.

Unless we're talking about planars in which case it's different.

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Therefore, the Audiophile is devoted to Purchasing,

Blathering on forums without teaching,

Buying ten thousand things without purpose,

Uses but doesn't really Own,

Constantly resells gear at a loss,

And accomplishes nothing while claiming to.

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When no accomplishment is claimed,

Listening to music endures.

But surround software helps with games. Any headphones that I head, surround off - means harder to pin-point the direction of the sound.

Do you suggest playing without software at all?

Great writeup. If you think the Aryas sound good right now with the entry-level Atom setup - just wait till you try them with a discrete Class A balanced amp, then they'll really come alive (no EQ needed).

Nearly all of the IC-based amps like the Atom, Heresy, A90, and THX '789 lack the natural timbre, tonality, soundstage depth, bass punch/dynamics, and texture that most discrete Class A amps portray excellently.

Plus, that treble harshness that you highlighted is mostly the result of pairing the very revealing and tonality challenged Aryas with IC-based amps - most people who have done the same report IC-based amps with the Arya as being harsh-ish. That isn't really a thing when the Arya is paired with Class A or Class AB discretes - these amps don't display that treble hardness nearly as much.

I found this out after I compared the A90, Monolith '887, and Schiit Magnius side by side with my Schiit Magni 3+, Emotiva A-100, and the Class A Gustard H20. The cheaper Class AB amps were better than the more expensive IC-based amps, while the Class A H20 dusted them all - no EQ needed. Discrete Class A and Arya, FTW......

No TAK?!

What makes you think that’s where the amp is?

I suspect the headphone jack’s impedance detection feature is probably too “smart” for its own good and is artificially lowering the gain to get you more range on the volume knob.

I would caution against using the line out, it’s going to distort the frequency response with the Zero’s.

This guy sounds more and more like click-bait as time passes.

Sony's method must be based on something like that: https://hackaday.com/2021/02/24/audio-out-over-a-uart-with-an-ftdi-usb-to-trs-cable/

There must be an ADC instead of a DAC and therefore DSD is treated as audio. This is definitely feasible

900 Kelvin for that extra toasty sound signature with just a hint of paprika.

If they interact in any measurable way, they do so in pcm recordings as well. The biggest thing that affects sound quality when considering higher resolution than 320kbps mp3s is recording/mastering quality. If you're concerned about the interactions of ultrasonic harmonics between instruments, as long as the sounds are digitally produced and separately recorded, such an interaction is never possible. Once you factor this as well, you will notice this "quality" must also be present in pcm recordings, as long as it's audible, if it's not audible then no quality of recording will make you hear that.

Another thing to infer from the fact that mastering/recording quality plays such a big factor in the perceived sound quality and intelligibility of music, is the fact that natively dsd music cannot be objectively compared to high quality pcm, since as long as they're recorder the same, they will sound the same.

The way I read it is that he's simply scaling down the list due to the quality of IEMs increasing very quickly. I imagine most whatever IEMs are just being shifted down a couple of sub-ranks.

I just want a good balanced cable for my hd650s... ive no delusions or perceived quality gain. I just want the extra headroom

Someone should archive the current list.

I'm guessing the three S- will be: MMKII, IER-Z1R, and U12t.

by having a twitter account

Sometimes opening on an incognito window prevents that from happening

If its going from dsd to a transducer and producing sound then it has done a digital to analog conversion, that basically just means you have a speaker level dac, which is admittedly quite cool. And its true that dsd is more straight forward but for a delta sigma dac that natively supports dsd the pcm playback is just fine, you aren't going to have audible loss.

I once sat through a blind listening demo with Rupert Neve, arguably the godfather of modern audio, as he demoed cables in a million dollar listening room for industry golden ear types. Now, many of these people had platinum albums and Grammy awards for their work. At some point Rupert revealed some of his speaker cabling as being a hardware store 14 ga. extension cable with the ends lopped off and hardwired. This was chosen as superior sounding by almost 50% of the listening audience.

I love his reviews and his website, but also realized that I have different preferences than his. Especially in the headphone category

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Don't use the surround sound. Open back headphones already have good soundstage, imaging, and diretionality. All you're doing is ruining the audio. With that being said, I didn't like the open back H6pro. I thought they sounded terrible. I still have the closed back version but I only use the 560S now as that sounds amazing for everything.

The cable won‘t hinder anything.

Both DSD and PCM capture the same live stream from the microphone, but DSD playback is more straightforward with far less digital filtered steps involved. I have just mentioned Sony's S-Master technology in another comment, which sends DSD directly to the amplification stage without digital to analog conversion. And the output is music

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If it was the cable what failed, you can try to replace it. It's a shame that the reason they break is also why they are easy to repair. Mine lasted 7 months before the cable failed but there're plenty of videos, tutorials and people who had moded them and turned pretty amazing also You don't need complicated tools or techniques so don't be afraid of trying to fix them and continue enjoiyng that amazing pair of headphones. They are súper easy to dissasemble and if You don't feel confident take them with a radio technician I bet it's going to he cheap. Good luck mate!

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