try taking the pads off and seeing if theres any debris in the drivers

560s are great if you like lots of treble

why the pads look so big, will they go to stock pad size when worn in? i feel like it would affect how they sound

Endgame right there.

I have HD600 + BTR5 + Android phone

• AptX - listenable

• LDAC 660 - good

• LDAC 990 - great

• USB + direct access (UAPP player), bypassing system mixer - well, now we're talking. Much, much better than BT, probably because of bypassing system mixer. Basically different league

Sidenotes:

• On cheaper headphones, e.g. HD598, difference is slim
• I still use it via BT on the go

i dont know about these headphones but they better sound MAJESTICALL for me to run out and buy another fucking amp to drive these fuckers

Reddit: No amp needed

The earpads are the kind with a plastic bracket glued in, yes I think I'll go with an air dry to be safe, I don't have a way to get replacement pads if I mess this up so better safe than sorry, thanks mate.

you can dry them in the shade during a sunny day. i did that when i washed my velour hd25 pads and they dried all the way through.

Electrostatic headphones have impedances to the tune of 100,000 ohms. 1500 ohm is not that big a deal as long as long as they are either fairly sensitive (which is probably the case for crystal radio headphones), or you got a high voltage amplifier (do not need much current at this point).

Depends on the construction and materials but generally yes. Glue melts and excessive sun to leather can cause cracking. Though leather do need conditioning every once in a while. Just to be safe go with air dry.

No.

Great will check it out thank you :)

The more i read about this iem the more i eager to mine finally be delivered and be in my hands/ears.

I think it will be a solid upgrade from my old KZ EDX(my first iem) since i now interested in the more neutral and well tuned sound of the Zero.

The 6X0 series is tuned really close to the Harman Target, except in the bass, as expected from open backs.

If you want to tune your headphones to a certain target, use the Headphone comparison tool in crinacle's website and export it to Peace. Slide equalizer are too unreliable.

Duct tape it up and use gurilla glue when it does snap? Thats what ild do although i dont have any experience

Look heavy

>Apparently the tubes need to burn in? Or is that a myth?

In my experience this is only the case if your tubes are humming. Sometimes new tubes hum out of the box and after 24-48 hours of simply leaving your amp on (in my case without the power tube) the hum can disappear. On some tubes I was able to get rid of the humming completely, but with some others it didn't work.

Some manufacturers say that their tubes sound best after 100-200 hours of use, but honestly, just enjoy, lean back and if there's change then see it as a nice bonus. I wouldn't leave the amp running because tubes don't work forever and can become microphonic and whatnot. My Tung-Sol 6SN7GTB I bought used started whistling like a tea kettle after a while, as an example.

Btw in my experience I haven't noticed a tube changing in sound yet and I've tried a few.

Edit: getting rid of stock tubes is almost always a good plan though.

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I really, really doubt 90 percent of the people here can even hear the difference between a hybrid like vali 2 and a magni

I guess that's fine, if you ignore planars and sensitivity

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Qudelix 5k DAC/amp has phenomenal EQ options built in; if you’re using a phone as your source, Neutron player is very good as well (though as far as I know it only plays files from the local device).

> Some people say there are huge differences in DACs but so far I haven't been able to notice that.. When something costs thousands it has to sound subjectively different I guess.

Yup. Same for me. I own an old 16-bit Sony TDA-based DAC and it rolls off highest frequency content a bit but other than that.. even an age old DAC sounds just about identical.

> my Xduoo TA-26 does a slighlty better job

I would hope so :)

Nice! Some people say there are huge differences in DACs but so far I haven't been able to notice that.. When something costs thousands it has to sound subjectively different I guess.

An well about amps, the FiiO K5 pro's amplification seems relatively clean to me, but my Xduoo TA-26 does a slighlty better job, lik 5-10%, depending on the genre of music I am listening to. Just fuller and more lifelike. Was it worth the money? Probably not.. but the slight improvement is very welcome.

It's super sick that the K7 costs so little while being so similiar to the K9 pro.