Congrats man. You'll enjoy them. Just take care of the cables. They are not very durable. If you are planning to get the Salnotes Zero, check out Tangzu Wan'er too. I've got the Zeros and they are amazing for the price.

Absolutely agree with you (not for 8 bits though), but the thing is - these things do not have any compression artifacts, they are just highpassed hard way.

Also interesting thing is how game engines handle all the sounds. I have checked Half-Life 2 after I wrote a post, and was impressed that a lot of sounds there were 16/22.05. I have never payed attention to this in game. Maybe it's a resampling without high-pass filter (the ladder - of course it WILL make artifacts), maybe it's the reverb that worked marvelously in HL2, but still.

Not yet, the headphones were a gift so I’ll have to most likely budget out for an amp, but the Red looks good on a quick look over. I’m exchanging those headphones for the Bluetooth version (Amazon mixup), still excited and will definitely use them. Music wise an amplifier is definitely next on my list.

Compression isn't necessarily the problem. 16/22.05 WAV is going to sound alot worse then 320kbps MP3's; let alone 8/22.05

I want a girlfriend like her

They are pretty easy to run. Even the Apple Lightning dongle (EU iPhone) can drive these pretty good. FiiO BTR5 also works absolutely fine. I've been using the DT1990s for around 3 years and still love them over most of my other headphones.

I've told 2 people so far to get their ears flushed by the GP - and it made them go HOLY FUCK MY SOUNDSTAGE IS WIDE AGAIN!
They're both IEM junkies so theyve been pushing the earwax inside their ears for years now .
Hope you get some resolution and can enjoy your iems to the fullest my man!

Not that comes from Sennheiser.

If you are upgrading, I'd get the Qudelix over the BTR7, the PEQ on the Qudelix is much better. The one on the BTR7 is limited, and only had one saved preset vs 20.

The BTR7 doesn't have that much more power than the BTR5 or Qudelix either (300mW vs 240mW @32Ω). This isn't enough that it's going to make any difference, it's under 1dB difference in the max volume which is imperceptible. If you find you need more power, you'd be better off getting a proper 1W+ desktop amp, the amount of power you need to get significantly more volume is exponential (double the volume needs 10 times the power). 1.25x power is an insignificant difference.

MARRY HER!

You won't get an argument from me. :)

Pretty much all ubisoft games have god awful compressions, most noticeably the far cry games.

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Works fine even with a motherboard amp. They're high ohm but very sensitive.

Yeah IMO IEM's just sound better in general because they are easier to tune and have fewer variables throwing everything off. And Dusk is already one of the best there is. I think the Dusk is good enough that if you EQ the last little bits to your liking then it is not possible to have something that sounds better but I am ready to change my mind when I hear it.

That's what I'm afraid of, I can barely imagine anything sounding better!

Thanks for the long reply. Yes, that's what I'm thinking so far - $15 isn't much to be able to use it in balanced mode which, most seem to agree, will let them work happily with the BTR5.

I may upgrade to a BTR7 later to give me more power overhead and the ability to add the 2 EQ tweaks that several reviewers think is all that is needed to make them 'perfect' but that's the simplest solution.

If you don't mind waiting for the shipping, there are plenty of inexpensive choices on AliExpress or eBay.

I use the Tripowin GranVia too, but with XLR connector. Worked very well with my Sundara and now with Edition XS. I got it from AliExpress, which is fine if you don't mind waiting a few weeks for packages to arrive.

Awesome. I too love my bass so on my journey I've ended up on the Hifiman HE1000v2. Also using an RME ADI-2 DAC FS to Sennheiser HDVA 600 balanced driven~

Any C Pin / QDC will work on it.

I'd suggest:

• Tangzu Wan'er
• CCA CRA
• CCA CRA+
• KZ EDA Balanced
• KZ PR1 Pro

CCA CXS may also be a decent option, but I haven't heard it yet.

Had mine 2 yrs. Still make me laugh at the detail they share. Love them.

Now wife?

It's pretty much always a 2.5 to 3.5mm cable. I don't think I've seen a 6.3mm only cable bundled with any headphone newer than 20 years....