jajdoo t1_irzeu63 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:25 AM

Reply to comment by DatDominican in IEM’s just hit different by Cameri-

did you try fiio utws5?

B3nesyed t1_is0a8lo wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:19 AM

Damn why did this get so much hate!

jajdoo t1_is0qnw7 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 1:45 PM

oh man i got no clue

DatDominican t1_is1rbxc wrote on October 12, 2022 at 5:52 PM

No I haven’t had the chance but I have three similar tws dacs. The noise cancelling and transparency mode in the AirPods Pro is a big reason I use them more but the other is I prefer the fit vs over ear hooks.

If I know I’m going to be home , unbothered, I’ll end up using one of my open back headphones(or my studio monitors ) , and in the rare case I’ll be moving around town I can use my car speakers .If I’m walking around the AirPods Pro case is smaller iirc . I don’t have the utws5 to compare pass through audio so I can’t speak to that but that leaves me in a very narrow use case where I already have my iems , I can’t use the over ear headphones due to movement , and I’m somewhere where I can’t leave and go walk or jam in the car.

I could always just make a concerted effort to use the tws dacs more but as I said earlier the ear hooks become distracting for me to use for any extended length of time which usually makes me reach for some over ear headphones.