EDIT - this post originally contained my short review of the HE1000 Stealth and a comparison with the HEKse. I have now moved it to the reviews section - https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/hifiman-he1000-v3-now-with-stealth-magnets.26331/reviews In summary - what a fantastic headphone at its...

Thanks, must be a Windows/driver-related issue then. What a pain. The driver is in the ASIO mode so should be bypassing Windows's own audio console fully. I'll keep trying and if I find a solution I'll post it here.

Hello fellow X26 Pro owners. I've been enjoying the DAC for a good while now without any issues, except for one which I've not been able to solve - when playing DSD files (upsampled either by PGGB or HQ Player) at the DSD512 rate, the DAC outputs silence at the frequency of 24.5MHz which is...

CanJam London 2023, here we come!!! I missed the post about having to sign up for HE-1 in advance, I thought this would need to be done in person at the show. Has anyone perhaps double-booked and would be willing to free up one of the slots? 😃

Sorry for a bit of an offtopic question here, but you mentioned that the Wandla's filters are very good but not quite as good as some of the others that HQPlayer offers. It was thanks to you that I discovered HQPlayer which has totally changed my music experience. Even though it can be very...

Thanks for highlighting that. It sounds like one of those bucket list experiences and it's almost literally just around the corner. I'm tempted. :wink:

So excited for this! I've never been to a CanJam and for a good while I've been at the stage of the hobby where although my gear has brought me a lot of joy, it is difficult to commit to further purchases without being able to audition the products first. Mainly because it seems to me that at a...

Would SINAD even be affected at all? All that non-believers need to be convinced that SINAD isn't everything is a DAC that allows for external upsampling to bypass its internal, default one, and then play with the many HQPlayer filters and be shocked how different they can sound, even those...

They surely play a big part but GoldenOne mentioned that he'd also listened to it using ESS stock filters. I'd be very intrigued to find out how it compares to the Gus X26 Pro in its stock form. In my system feeding my Gus HQPlayer-converted-and-upsampled DSD makes a huge difference, so big in...

Has anyone been able to compare the WANDLA to the Gustard X26 Pro? Given the WANDLA's special filters it'd probably pull ahead in its stock form but I'm wondering if the Gus is on the same level (or higher) when fed HQPlayer-upsampled content.

Please correct me if I'm wrong - I understand that the difference between the May and off-the-shelf chip DACs (ESS, AKM etc.) when it comes to PCM will be rather significant due to the different architectures/philosophies behind the designs which in this case is also reflected in the price...

That's a great write-up, thanks a lot. So it's not just me. 🙃 I remember how "off" the headphone sounded when I put it on for the first time and my ears were too close to the bottom of the cups. But, like you say, going one hole up is a significant change and can go from one extreme to the...

Have any of HEKse owners experienced the dilemma which I've had with my HEKse since day one, and I've had it for a good while now - because of the size of the earcups (which, on the face of it, is great as the ears never touch the inside padding), I can never really find a perfect fit, not in...

For me it's partly the other way round. It's much more spacious in "normal" mode, although I can sense that this effect is a little "coloured' (perhaps even a little V-shaped), hence I thought that it must be the Vivid op-amps that are taken out of the equation also in the power amp mode, I...