Haven't seen someone done that yet, what you have to keep in mind with this amp is that you need proper airflow/ventilation with this one in order to maintain the temps as stable as possible, as long as you have proper airflow, IN THEORY, there shouldn't be any issues, no matter which way you...

Yeah, the HD800S sounds amazing on this amp, and once you EQ it with a bass shelf, ooofffff, audio heaven.

So this amp can run Tungsten properly?, That's what I'm looking for, more than subjective takes on how this amp sounds like(which I'm sure it's going to sound great). I'm looking at Cayin's new amp, the iHA-8, Schitt's MJ3 and Flux Labs Mentor, from my reading, MJ3 maybe can run them but it...

Ok, thx my friend, tbh I'm also looking at a speaker amp to run tungsten but I would really would like to find a dedicated headphone amp that can run them properly and that doesn't break the bank, and it's not a topping amp.

That's all I needed to hear, this is my next amp then. I also own the S17, just wondering if anyone else here has had problems with the S17 having some background hiss on IEMs?

Custom Cans in the UK probably has a balance Senn 560 cable. Technically in europe, but not in the EU so customs and other taxes might apply.

Thanks dude. i already installed the latest USB driver from Shanling's website and my H5 came with the v1.2 firmware, probably need to play around with HQP a little bit more to make it work, it could also be the usb cable I'm using, gonna change to another one I have to see if that fixes the...

My AT ATH-M40x have to run single ended and the bass slam I'm getting from them is out of this world, also significantly more soundstage, like it's stupid how good these headphones sound from the S17, of course you have to take into account I change to pads to ZMF cowhide oval pads.

Hart audio cables sells a balanced cable specifically for the Senn 560S, don't know if that would work with your specific 560 tho. It is generally recommended that in balanced topologies you try to run your cans balanced all the way through.

My main problem with the Cayin IHA-8 is that it doesn't have any pre-outs, it's a dedicated HP amplifier, and for me that's an instant no-go, but from reports it seems to be an excellent amplifier, but it seems that this amp was made in mind with pairing with their new DAC and streamer, so...

Thanks for the clarification Need to do further testing, unfortunately I don't have any native/standard DSD files, I was trying to upsample to DSD512 with some high intensive modulators and filters through HQPlayer, it seems the H5 was getting a signal but for what I remember, it detected it as...

The HD800S and any high impedance can like the DT880 or SENN 6XX sound great from this amp, the 109 Pro I think it sounds better on the 50ma mode, and for planars this amp is a beast. Welcome to the club my friend.

Sup people. I had another problem with the H5, I wasn't able to play upsample DSD music files through HQPlayer into the shanling, I already downloaded the ASIO drivers to my PC and both HQPlayer and Roon detect the DAC but no music is coming through, asking for a friend!!!

Thx, I got it to work and it sounds amazing. I have another question regarding the RCA pre-out, does it go through the amp section of this device or is it pulled straight from the DAC itself?

I would recommend you buy the dekoni elite velour pads, it really does help improve the sound of the Clears, the original pads are really good and confortable tho, some people recommend using utopia pads for the clears, tho I think this are more expensive than the Clear OG pads.