Is power amp not just for local files?

Assuming you are talking Android, there is a systemwide EQ.

>Etymotic er4sr

Pretty neutral but a bit light in the bass department. Use the systemwide EQ to boost 100 Hz with 2 up to 3 dB. That is all you need IMHO.

Do whatever suits your needs best. If the differences are minor and spotify is more convenient, then change.

There is the EQ, but unless you are constantly tweaking profiles, just use Wavelet

I see what you're getting at. Here's what you need to remember:

Headphones/IEMs, etc. are a means to an end.

If you can hear the music with some semblance of being able to be resolved/in a way that makes you happy, then you're 95+% "of the way there". You'll hear some people around hear say, "I'd never listen to anything lesser", but if something "lesser" was all they had on them, they wouldn't just not listen to music/play games/watch movies anymore - it would be good enough, because that's what is available to them, and it gets the job done.

Nobody needs to hear that last 0.004% of decay from a violin, or that already-highly-synthetic electric guitar. Nobody needs to hear that one guy in the background coughing in the editing booth during the recording, or the buzz of a monitor in the background.

Most products out there get the job done and then some. It's all subject to diminishing returns. Of course it's nicer to have higher fidelity reproduction. It feels different. But not so different that any sane person woud simply stop listening altogether if hi-fi hardware wasn't available to them anymore.

There are many facets to sound reproduction hardware, software, sources, and what makes each individual happy. Find what makes you happy and live your life.

tl;dr - Nothing ever truly dies, and nothing else matters except your enjoyment - don't spend even another second of your life thinking about the state of things, or worrying about what other people are doing.

Always considered but never pulled the trigger. I am glad you enjoy them and have gotten so much out them.

Yep I hated the Beyerdynamic when I tested it. Sounds like the bass, mids and treble are detached from each other

Crap, all I have are these ATH-AD500X.

There are 2 small issues here.

1st is whether you actually have ALC1200 or ALC1220 as there is a big difference between them. ALC1200 is capable of only 1V 30mW at 32Ohm, while ALC1220 is capable of 2V (don't know the power).

2nd is the MSI implementation of it. My MSI Z690-A has only 3.2mW out of ALC897 (a $229 board with low end chip...) and it has 80Ohm output impedance at that. I don't know how powerful the ALC897 can get, but certainly that board is much quieter than than my other Gigabyte board using ALC892 (the same chip, ALC897 is a refresh). I recall multiple posts of people at HeadphoneAdvice complaining on low output of their MSI onboards, at least 2 of MAG Mortart series on B series AMD chipsets.

That said DT770 are an entry level closed backs and you simply might not like their sound.

This goal has no other purpose than to just appreciate my headphones, the ATH-AD900x. I have them since 2015, and after several modifications (first instance of detachable cable, new fixed cable, then dual detachable cable) and several coats of paint, they are still my main driver. And since then I've been driving them with O2+odac.

Although I dream of getting headphones like the ATH-ADX5000, or thinking new headphones like the Meze 99, at the end I'm not really in the game since a long time. I don't feel the need anymore to shop around. Even going to Japan and to Yodobashi, I do not feel the same pleasure and urge to try the various headphones on the floor.

So ya, just wanted yo share my appreciation for my headphones. The only thing I'm thinking to do is to make them bluetooth as I try to make my setup simpler

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Growing faster in the last 5 years than at any other point.

In a desktop setup no. Its actually faster to use my wired gear on my main system then to attach my airpods pro2. Plus it sounds so much better so definitely not dead. The market cap for high end headphones is 20x what it was in the early 2000s. It’s always been niche.

Sony had done it before, where the NC worked with certain walkman models (digital) and Xperia phones.

Lossless is relevant regardless of what some objective measures say or what even a blind test says. The entire audiophile community is the evidence. They can also point to measurable distortions and debatable issues in the audible spectrum when compression is at play.

Also I can't connect more than 2 devices to my Bluetooth device right now, and even that is very new. That's a lot less than 10. The point is we need to be able to connect a full power speaker setup, audiophile grade headphones, a keyboard, a mouse, a dac/amp stack, and a webcam all at once with low latency and no interference and full bore uncompressed audio quality maintained on each device for audiophile products to move fully wireless. You won't ever convince audiophile diehards that their music sounds the same on Qobuz vs YouTube Music or Spotify on Bluetooth as is. We're not talking about a room full of 100 average people, we're talking about the one person in the room who cares. When the room has 8 billion people, that's still a market large enough to sustain wires for some time until a wireless tech can stream full bore FLAC without compression from an average phone.

> The day when you can connect 10 Bluetooth devices and play lossless with very tiny latency,

It is already here. Bluetooth 5.2+ supports broadcasting and delays less than 50ms(even 25ms I think is possible). Support is coming to Android 13 onwards. Lossless is not relevant as psychoacoustics has proven that transparency is achieved at 192kbps+ for AAC,Opus,etc.

Not if I can help it. I’ve passed the torch to the next generation. My daughter’s coworker called her a pleb for using wired iems. She just laughed and didn’t draw attention to the price of her Oracles.

Maybe give EQ another try, this time with oratory1990's preset - you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/wiki/index/list_of_presets/

I personally don't like how AutoEQ presets sound, but I very much like how oratory1990's presets sound.

The "new/fresh earpads" profile for Equalizer APO (2021-04-13):

Preamp: -2.6 dB

Filter: ON PK Fc 43 Hz Gain -9.5 dB Q 0.25

Filter: ON PK Fc 90 Hz Gain 2 dB Q 1.4

Filter: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 5.5 dB Q 0.71

Filter: ON PK Fc 210 Hz Gain 6 dB Q 1.3

Filter: ON PK Fc 2550 Hz Gain -1.6 dB Q 2

Filter: ON PK Fc 3800 Hz Gain 3 dB Q 1

Filter: ON PK Fc 5100 Hz Gain -2.8 dB Q 3

Filter: ON PK Fc 6450 Hz Gain -4 dB Q 4

Filter: ON PK Fc 8300 Hz Gain -3.9 dB Q 4

Filter: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -4 dB Q 0.71

Nah. Not until bluetooth can carry a truly uncompressed hifi signal. For that reason alone there will always be a market. If only 1 percent of the global pop cares and has the means for audiophile grade, that's still 80 million customers.

Latency will reduce to the point that it doesn't matter, just as it has for the enthusiast and gaming mouse space, at which point it will begin to disappear.

The day when you can connect 10 Bluetooth devices and play lossless with very tiny latency, yeah, it will be. That day will come. There was a time when we couldn't imagine photos becoming comparatively trivial in terms of storage space, 4k60fps gaming, etc. There's only so much data in a stereo recording, and it will be solved one day.

I bought a pair from them also. Their customer service dept was responsive and the airpods are real. I am sure of it. Everything from the packaging to the sound quality and noise cancelation are identical to the originals. Find My works perfectly. Serial numbers are legit and I was able to register them. Insanely good deal. They are able to sell at these prices because they source from places like Amazon return centers, etc.

No

What type of shape is the KZ zsn pro x, I find them not hollow at all

This is the wrong sub to ask this question I’m afraid. I too have made the jump from wired to wireless when it comes to earbuds(og AirPods)and was blown away how good the sounded and how light they were and the lack of wire would make me forget I had them in.

Recently I got myself Sundaras and while they sound really great the wire just kills it for me. Not to mention open back design where gf can hear them from another room. Anyway got me some focal bathys which are wireless or wired if you wish. Closed back and comfy. The sound is simply great. I can move around the house without worrying about cables or carrying a device with me.

Wired headphones are “more dead” than gas burning vehicles. I’m sure everyone is noticing the trend but some aren’t willing to admit it. There’s applications for wired and there’s no way around it but the convenience factor is the winner for wireless no doubt. I’m looking forward to more offering from major players when it comes to wireless headphones. It’s very exciting times we live in

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Not me specifically, no.

But I guess, from your tone, that you don't even care :)

Eventually the Bluetooth technology can catch-up with the bandwidth and yes, wired headphone will die that time

However there is still sometime away from that