they do have tons of models, but no entry level closed back (i mean, elegias are on a $350 runout...) but those won't be around for ever. i feel like they should make another, more affordable bluetooth model in this lineup.

hi, I would recommend the Latest version of the Ifi Hip Dac for any headphones that a reletively easy to drive. there are many versions, and you usually see the earlier one really cheap on runout sales etc.

thanks, i got it home and i didn't hold charge, so sent it back anyway.

fair enough, often i have this problem, i wonder why my speakers sound odd then remember the eq and vice versa

audio interfaces ussually don't have heaps of power, and if you have headphones that are hard to drive, like yours, then you might not necessarily need a better dac, but just a headphone amp fed from the main outputs of your interface, to give you more power. this way you might get more for...

depends on what sort of sound signature you like.

i'd advise a FiiO BTR model, which you can tweek to sound a bit warm with the eq. these are great value, and sound great for the price.

i guess the same reason some massive speakers are 4 Ohms and need 150 watts minimum to sound good.

i may be wrong though - please correct me if so.

this is very true, consider Sennheiser HD6xx (300 Ohms) vs DT770 Pro (mine are 250 Ohms). the HD6xx has a higher impedance but is substantially easier to drive. i believe impedance means how much of the original power to gets to the driver, and sensitivity is how loud that amount of power causes...

in a lot of ways, this is accurate, but you also have to consider, a lot of what you are paying for with expensive headphones is the materials, far less materials are required to make an iem, thus making more of the price reflective of the quality. but, as mentioned above, IEMs have more...

update: 1: Focal Elgia 2: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro with upgrade perforated pads 3: Hifiman RE800 Silver IEM 4: Fiio JH3 IEM 5: Sennheiser Momentum 1 6: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x 7: Final E1000 IEM 8: Fostex TE04 IEM 9: TFS My Love 2 IEM

that is what i meant by each channel has it's own negative, rather than sharing a ground.

the benefit to balanced audio is reduced noise, therefore acheiving greater clarity.

balanced audio means, in practice, each channel has it's own negative signal, which has been reversed in polarity. conventional amps share a negative for each channel. generally this is acheived by having a seperate amp chip for each channel, rather than one.

Hi, for a while i have used my Fiio X1 for all travel driving Fiio JH3 IEMs. for a budget system this souds great. I have read that the sound of the X1 improved a fair bit when used on the Line Output (force volume) mode with a seperate amp. i have bought a Fiio E6 cheap, and i'm wondering...

Hi, i did not mean to mislead, but it was my belief that, as higher power amps will begin to clip at far higher volumes, then logically then THD would be lower. as for damping factor, this was simply based on the fact that with all of my amplifiers, damping factor increases correspondingly with...

choose the the one with the most power, i know lots of people say that high power amps make iems hiss but the higher the power the lower the harmonic distortion, generally the higher the dynamic range and damping factor, for better detail and control over the sound, especially the bass. a Ifi...

hifishark is also a great resource, you can search for products for sale and sold across many sites, and convert currency to USD etc.

you could find a seperate eq that controls the ouput of all apps on your phone

HD600 are not low impedance though.

Fiio X1 -> Fiio JH3

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Roland AU-25EX interface -> Yamaha HP-1