Tidal is pretty good, haven’t tried it on Youtube, will do later today, thanks for the tip!

Hand your friend the Sennheiser HD560s and an apple dongle (because it guarantees clean sound regardless of the source).

All I can say is that I doubt anyone can tell a difference between DSD and Flac. Hell, I can't even tell a difference between 320kbs MP3 files and 24/96 flac files. Nor can I tell a difference among different dacs.

Well the funny thing it's he have a point , I have 2 DAPs and makes no sense , most of the devices have limitations that your mobile phone doesn't have and all you need is a nice DAC and the software and you are ready to enjoy your music on the go

I always thought Schiit was the posterchild for good headphone amps, so this thread has been eye opening indeed

Here you see the cables you will get the end of the cable you plug into your pc has a normal 3.5mm (with 6.35mm screw on adapter) connector, so you can just use it as it is.

Your headphones come with a short and long cable with 3.5mm on one end, with a6.3mm converter included. That cable connects to the headphones with mini xlr. That's only relevant when you need a new cable

It’s good, I’m always annoyed at having to use a non native app for streaming services but this works quite well, there’s a tiny delay when switching screens but it’s not a deal breaker, loads of technical settings but tbh you don’t need to alter much after installing

Impedance is how much resistance the speaker produces, sensitivity is how loud it gets given a certain amount of power. You could also think of sensitivity as efficiency.

Oversimplifying the math to illustrate this point - A headphone with a sensitivity rating of 75db will be about 75% as loud as a headphone with a sensitivity rating of 100db when connected to the same source.

A higher impedance headphone will typically sound worse, but not necessarily quieter (though often it's inherently quieter too), than a lower impedance headphone when connected to an amp that's not powerful enough to drive it. Think worse bass extension, less clarity. It still makes the noises it's supposed to but the amp is really struggling to control everything in the tight manner it's supposed to. The voice coil is also frequently able to generate a larger magnetic field from the higher impedance design, so if you've got enough power to drive it properly you COULD get better sound out of the higher impedance driver all other things being equal. The thing is they're never equal which is why there's not a "right" approach here, just tradeoffs to be made given what you're trying to accomplish.

Thank you

Good to see. I wonder if he's also going to improve the filtering system? It would be nice to be able to filter by price. EG, filtering headphones down to £300-£500

Take the two files, put them in an audio program (you can probably do it with Audacity), flip the polarity of one of them. When played, if the result is silence, the two files have cancelled each other out. This would mean that they are completely identical at a digital level. It's a way of testing if there is any actual difference between two files. If they cancel each other out, it means they were identical. Exactly the same. Thus, meaning that if you think you hear a difference between them, it's pure placebo.

However, if these are different masterings as others are suggesting, then this test is moot. You end up with a different file altogether. But it could still be worth a try.

Thats good to know. I'll have to have my roommate look into it with his USB headset to see if he can get any sort of changes. But I would also assume that a USB headset still won't have the "power" of an external DAC right?

I had a few of these and was always impressed with sound quality. It was also quite easy to use. Cowon E2 was nice too. It didn't have the reading voice, but did have EQ presets.

I don't have the technical knowhow to describe why it sounds better but in my limited experience DSD sounds more like analog than PCM. I love it but it's impractical.

If it's a USB headphone then that means the headphone has it's own DAC and amp built into it. That would also mean that you can't plug it into the amp you bought though so I'm assuming that's not what you have haha.

Regardless, for any of these devices you're gonna want to make sure any audio enhancements or spatial audio things are off. You can do that even on a USB headset.

It is only mini xlr in the one end of the cable

By null test you mean blind test?

It's a nice watch tho, I have Orient as well.

Me with my DT 770:

You guys are getting mids?

😂

They sound better on yt than spotify for some reason, at least pet sounds, i guess that spotify has worse recordings

I can surely say that despite controversial sound signatures all Beyers rarely have any problems with mid accuracy, unlike, let's say, Audio-Technica.

That makes sense. But that would mean the studio would master the record a second time but better for dsd. If so why not just use the better master for everything instead of using different mastering for the different file. Would save time and money and result in a better end product

Looks is a plus and the first attracting factor, but if it's utterly gorgeous but has dogshit sound, interest dies real fast

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^^^^*Some ^^^^restrictions ^^^^may ^^^^apply, ^^^^results ^^^^may ^^^^vary.