Its a game of patience. Also it doesn't hurt to spark a conversation with a vendor, usually if you get chatty they ask people to go try something else. Also 3 hours isn't much time. For me 6 hours go by pretty fast. At the end you just end up listening to the DCS Lina all day since they are usually everywhere.

During SoCal CanJam, the DCS Lina was all I listened to.

so true, 99.9 love the 5k , go figure.....

The pun wasn't even intentional 😶

First dive into getting my own Dac & headphone setup. I’m mainly using this for single player gaming and listening to music. No specific music genre, a bit of everything. As far as gaming goes, it was crazy playing doom eternal on this as well as something like Hogwarts legacy. The ambiance on Returnal, was upped quite a bit for me at least. I’m a definitely give my x2s a go on this Dac after a couple more sessions. I did get 69 dollar low noise power supply for this that Ifi sells, I used to get a static noise in the background when playing at higher volumes that is long gone.

50 yrs old and close to non detoriation to the materials.. Whereas today you can count on your 2 years old premium ANCs to flake or whatever

Yeah, well, a tiny dynamic driver in a mostly hollow, plastic chassis with a little bit of sponge inside will tend to be lighter, yes.

I'd say, though, that any headphone can be comfortable, if the headband is doing its job correctly.

91db/mw

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I’m just curious if you’ve tried Stax headphones from those eras and if you have, what was your opinion of them?

Well I meen the "master" then. The guy that puts all different records into one.

No they are not :)

You can say a headphone is muddy. When I asked what that meant you simply say: excessive energy in the mid bass and sent me an EQ ti test it with my own headphones.

If I ask you, what "direct steering" means, you'd tell me to drive a G class and then hop into a 911.

I can explain what warm colours are to me, and show you.

These terms can easily be explained and shown to one another.

Detail, dynamics and speed cannot. They are meaningless, it seems :)

These things are also frequency dependent, just boost the range to which those things belong and you ear them more easily. If that were what they mean with "detail" then I'd laugh myself to sleep.

your inability to understand written english is shocking...

Were we not talking about detail?????

Jesus Christ, education has gone down the shitter....

yeah those apple cables are garbage. i take good care of my stuff but those cables always disintegrate after some time. maybe the new cables that apple gives with ipad and mac will be better as they are braided.

Hello fellow 400se & M50x enjoyer

Thanks for sharing. Fortunately I remain happy with my SA-1 (except for capacitor noise that's pretty evident at night) and don't really consider it warm or dark

I was here the other day. I thought it was just a store you can go in but it's not. You have to make an appointment, they did let me in when I called on the curb and let me buy the poly I was after. Very nice folks. I'll definitely order from them from now on if they have something I'm after. I'm not sure if they let you audition equipment or not.

EQing has honestly saved me and glad I learned about it before buying my DT 1990 Pros ... Almost returned them before I EQ'd

EQing really saves certain headphones!

I've heard both during my time at CanJam 2022 Socal. From what I recall, WA33 is more technical and less rolled-off in the treble than the Envy. I believe, I used the low-impedance setting in the WA33 and medium impedance with the Envy with the Suvara pairing. The Envy has a more "expressive" mids than the WA33, and both have that concert-hall imaging that is the trademark of tube amp.

When it comes to tube amps, the best breed would be the "Directly Heated Triode" Single Ended Tube amp (WA23, WA5 LE, Feliks Envy, Eddie Current amps) or Fully Balanced Push-Pull directly heated triode amp (WA33). They differ in output power as well as output transformers and as such will react differently with the same headphones. Only way to tell is to actually demo them with your headphone of choosing.

> Also is every input hole like adding gain on a standard amp?

Nope. If you use two of the headphone amp outs at the same time, you increase the load of the amp (on the output transformer specifically) and depending on the sensitivity of the headphones used, one will sound louder or quieter than the other

I don’t know about all this talk from self proclaimed audiophiles and reviewers, but I only buy “bass head” iems and judge them by the same reference tracks, then reread the reviews. I hear (or don’t) the same things in the tracks, but with different prominence or coloration. Does that mean I always like the Honeydews better than the OH10’s or 1More Quads? No-they are just different. And It takes my ears awhile to tell my brain why I enjoy each of them.

Rocking set of cans my friend! Glad you enjoy them. They present bass register so damn well. For rock, electronic, and anything that has a hefty bottom end, these are endgame for the price. Weight wise, they do begin to wear in you in time. I typically like laying while listening to music and that easily halves the apparent weight. But they are always a joy to throw on when I want that visceral experience. Enjoy them!

The plastic broke. Super glue is the best option if you really want to use broken headphones

I think being careful is the cheapest

I just copy pasted from a Japanese listing 😂😅🙃