Curious, what have you tried to reach this conclusion? Just wondering what people with this opinion use, I often find they often use harder to drive headphones.

How??? Pls a tutorial

Nice, they are really well build and have good enough technicalities for their price, although I find all entry level ifi products to sound too warm for my taste. They are definitely excellent and even potentially pause game if you are into their house sound.

• Vacant - Nocturnal | Genre: Electronic / Future Garage | LINK

• Kauan - Sorni Nai | Genre: Prog metal / Folk / Doom | LINK

• Vega Trails - Tremors in the Static | Genre: Minimal Jazz | LINK

• Hello Meteor - Pantropic | Genre: Electronic / Dreamwave | LINK

like... how? just for fun i want to try this out on some old cables lying around.

edit: even when i try to make sense of it, which it makes on paper, my hand/brain coordination refuse to work this out https://imgur.com/a/XADD73e

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place, although I have a simple question.

I listen to music on a Pixel 6a through some CCA C10 pro, connected with a Samsung usb c to jack 3.5 cable.

Now the cable has broken, and I bought an Apple one because I couldn't find a Samsung one. The volume seems much lower, is there a way to increase it? I already use Wavelet and it doesn't help much.

Are there any other good usb c to jack cables that I can quickly buy on Amazon in Europe for 10-15€? Right now it looks like there is a shortage of Samsung ones, I cannot find them around where I live in a short time.

To kick off, let me share my recommendations:

1. Charlie Gabriel and Hall Preservation Jazz Band - 89
2. Hermanos Gutierrez - you can check out their performance on last month NPR Tiny Desk
3. Gogeum Records - A S. Korean label focusing on tradional music. Among the artists, I would like to recommend 2nd Moon album.
4. Phazzadelic - aka De-Phazz, a (club, lounge) jazz band/label

You can also check some from my past post.

EDIT: Fixed Hermanos Gutierrez's link per u/danadam's notice. Thanks!

Soldering iron at 210*C or glue or tape.

OP, as someone who upgraded from the Sundara to the Arya, only to return the latter, I'd say there's no need to upgrade at all! Yes there are headphones that have better technicalities out there, but over time a lot of us find that tonality is more important - and the Sundara has a great tonality imo.

Higher end cans are still lots of fun to try, so I'm not discouraging you from trying them, but if you're already enjoying your music tons with the Sundara, well isnt that essentially what people are looking for in upgrades? And you've already got it.

I'd say Sennheisers are great complementary cans to the Sundara; I'd recommend the 6xx or 650 (whichever is cheaper or looks better to you, sound wise they are essentially the same), or a 660S. Having variation keeps things exciting.

I'm glad I could help, if you also like rock music then I think the LCD x is a easy choice

Yeah, I'm not completely sold on speed myself, I just think it's an additional potential source of inaccuracy in how we measure FR. I just wanted to emphasize that measured FR is lacking, so there are perceived technicalities, but those technicalities are also just un-measured FR.

Are you suggesting headphones migrate?

I'm glad you backed off the speed issue. I think it is reasonable for people measuring headphones to assume that most listeners will generally tend to listen at a generally loud but safe volume. But my original point was not a defense of measurement, but an explanation of some illusions created by the designs of different headphones.

I've had and tested the wf-xm4's and 7hz zeros/moondrop chus for a while now and they are quite similar in technicalities, though I was able to find more details I never heard before with these IEMs, but that's probably because they have better tuning, the xm4's have recessed treble that you can't fully fix with EQ. And I forgot to mention they are both only $20.

I don't have the arias but they should definitely be better in a technical aspect than the xm4's as they are literally the next tier upgrade from the $20-50 IEM range, atleast in technicalities. Your arias may have a bad seal in your ears which could definitely affect the sound and your judgement...

nah, kph-40i

It's not just the frequency of vibration that matters, but also the impulse response. Theoretically, transducers are limited by the fact that you can't replicate immediate changes in velocity while you're working with something that has mass. Even if we accept that over 20khz frequency changes aren't perceptible even in transients, FR up to that range is very inconsistent. Nonlinear in this context would be the change in FR when measuring at different amplitudes, which would include resonances for example.

Hey, we're having a friendly conversation here.

The design of the cup is how the engineers manipulate the high frequencies that our brains and ears use to locate sound sources. Sound waves have only three characteristics: amplitude, which we hear as volume, frequency, which we hear as pitch, and start/stop times, which are easy for any device designed to vibrate 20,000 times per second. Sound has no other characteristics. But our ears and brains interpret sound waves in very complicated ways.

Edit: Just saw your stealth edit. I don't think you raised any new points for discussion with it.

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You are telling me that soundstage has nothing to do with the shape of the cop, reflections within the cup and at what angle the soundwaves are actually hitting my ear? If its ALL in the frequency response, you should be able to name me one IEM that produces a HD800 like soundstage. One of them must have similar high frequencies in the ear compared to an HD800 right?

Get the hd600 and tell the warehouse employees that the radio is a health and safety violation.

/s

Sound stage from headphones is an illusion created by manipulating high frequencies the ear and brain use to locate sound sources. PEQ uses smoothed curves and is imprecise to each individual set. It would take maybe hundreds of lines of PEQ code to make two different headphones sound close enough to exactly the same for most human ears.

Man one day I wish to do an impulse buy like this 😅

Ok, but then please explain to me why when I EQ all of my Headphones to the Harman target, why does my HD800 still sound the most detailed?

My guess would be that the HD800s bigger soundstage spreads the individual sounds over a much larger area, making it vastly easier to discern individual sounds. The LCD2C sounds like a thick blob of sound in my head in comparison.

👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿 that's so cool

Yes