no see i am RENDERING my audio.. like how hollywood CG graphics like uhh disneys frozen.. but HIGHER quality.. and sort of dolby atmos like sound.. for any sound.. but like better than real life.. for audio.. and my faster than instantaneous faster than speed of light quantum infinity super computer.. well it can output TRUE audio.. like TRUE. its more analog than vinyl record audio. better too. its picture quality is higher than any camera or lens and can reality emulate the universe in DNA quality.. but you see the clarity and stuff has limits based on how sharply the speaker material can change directions and vibrate.. the extra voltage isnt about a constant power.. its about... imagine paddling or rowing a boat and the faster and harder you go the more resistance, but say you've a experienced finesse kayaker.. who doesnt go full throttle they use bursts of power and speed to get over a high cresting wave.. then ride it out but may need to do a U-turn and about face or manuever some rocks.. and then need to swing or completely sort of tip and dip or roll the kayak.. that needs far far far higher power than smooth sailing.. its hard to explain.. but its like ninjas running on roof tops but the speaker part on my headphones is like them bouncing between two trees zig zags to go up it.. its not always but it can.. so the hifiman speakers are like audio ninjas.. looks like a normal high quality headphones warrior.. but it can have a burst of power it needs to pull out .. compared to macho wrestlers headphones that have 1 setting of all strength all the time. EDIT: hifiman it says it in the name HIFI they're giant speakers you strap to your head.. its not that hard to understand why they NEED more power but can pretend to work at low power.. like car subwoofer that can kick and bounce you can FEEL the clearest cleaneest vocals blasting at you with presence and thundering force of a whisper.. but if you dont amp them enough they dont kick or slam or thunder or resound theres no "FILLS THE ROOM" feeling at all.. its not thunderous or hair tingling spine tingling audio.. its just meh like "oh i guess it sounds fine. lets go flush money down the toilet on some terrible purchases like apple products their phones suck at even being a phone and are competing with actual telecommunications and tech companies that dont just wait a decade for any random junk to become dirt cheap and rename it and pretend they did it better or better yet pretend they invented it!"

forgot to mention im rendering my game graphics too, and yes MQA was mastered its often a scam as the MQA standards and studio recording equipment needed to master in MQA its often just a bunch of losers taking lousy old vinyl records and MQA backing them up, so they often dont sound any better than the original vinyl.

if you use modern recording techniques and capture correctly the MQA logo is like the atmos or DTSX master quailty logo for lossless but for headphones. The reason people call MQA a scam is its the kind of scam low latency gaming mice are.. they cost a lot more they have higher polling intervals and refresh rates and the sensor can DPI 16k instead of 2k.. so way better.. but most people game in like 720p or 1080p then the high DPI is for use with say an 8k or 4k desktop. dont feel bad about not ever using your gaming high DPI mouse, lots of poor people and asians buy them or software hack to pretend they have them because their desk is too damn tiny they cant move the mouse without it falling off the edge or the top of the PC case or something like their clothes drawers so they crank the DPI up so the tiniest nudge of the mouse makes the cursor travel across 4 tiny word processor looking monitors they probably stole from the office at work! They also dont install the mouse software and calibrate it.. similarly lots of people play an MQA file on anything that isnt MQA hardware with right software and the MQA decoder ENABLED and lighting up in a CORRECT MANNER.. its got some strict requirements but it also has zero requirements as for every device on earth its just a regular slightly better sounding FLAC file.. until the MQA hardware kicks in then it expands to a richer master audio.. which people claim uses a sort of adaptive packing up into a FLAC file and that there may be subtle bits lost, but its discarding noise or things speakers dont do or whatever if anything is lost in the lossless format. What they're hearing as not good is their latency and stuff like renderer and render resolution of the audio and multisampling arent right and they arent using the right cables or the DIRECTSTORAGE DIRECTDRIVE DIRECTTRANSPORT DIRECTRANSFER or possibly live encoding to DSD or DXD and arent using something like WASAPI exclusive push pull RT mode to output or bleargh decades old lousy 18ms ASIO.. when HDMI and type C are 0 latency but obsolete fake hardware and fake software keep using asio bullcrap and old fake trash nvidia garbage for audio or whatever.. NEGATIVELATENCY AMD audio.. so yeah it can sound AMAZINGLY better. often just a bit better, it can cost a bit more.. but usually its reasonably priced.. its the atmos logo for headphones.. make of it what you want.

i play back MQA on refurbished cheap AT&T LG V60 i got off ebay using a purchased onkyo HF player app with the direct transfer mode enabled. I also like to turn on the strong compression and lower the latency for most things in the ms delay.

What makes you think it's unsafe?

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My favorite one: transparent

Those XDuoo are absolutely more than enough, I remember running LCD-2 off a dongle just fine.

Edit: MQA are basically the same as those "high-res" gimmicks, and DAC chip have no correlation with the sound output whatsoever. What matter is its implementation, and if it's implemented correctly, it will produce sound without clipping or distortion. It won't increase detail or soundstage or anything like that.

It should be okay, IIRC sometimes there's extra buzzing(interference)/heat/etc. though.

For TWS earbuds and Bluetooth usage, see here for more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/10kai7u/should_i_keep_ear_buds_out_of_the_case_after/j5so87z/

Here's what I do with my TWS earbuds and TWS adapters (like FiiO UTWS3/5) or really Bluetooth/wireless/rechargeable/etc. stuff in general: I try to only charge it when it has no battery or will have no battery soon. And then I don't touch it at all while its charging.

Info about UTWS3/5 battery life (5-7 hours) and also TWS earbuds volume variability: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/10yr7js/finaly_good_audio_on_the_go_utws5_and_fh5s/j803bbw/

For Bluetooth ANC headphones, those can take a while and yes, just leave them be, use a wired IEM/headphone instead or your speakers.

I just bought the M1570C using your code for $185. Thank you.

I going to bite. I haven't heard anything about the M1570C. I know they are heavy as a brick and that stupid mini XLR pinout is stupid, but for $185 I'm going to try it. Review coming soon.

returns

The only unsafe thing would be how loud they're

you will turn in to hulk while doing this!

To be fair, when I first got my LCD 2 C, I had them on for the first 2 days and they didn't come off my head, 2 12 hour days and by day 3, I did have a slight ache, so I just switched back to my HD800S for a day and the Audeze have been fine since.

He turned around and is looking out the headphone. What's the point of giant open back if you can't see through them

Mojo

Yes. The only think "unsafe" (more like unhealthy for the battery) is to heavy use the phone while charging due to generated heat. BT uses very little battery, so it's totally fine.

Yes, it is safe.

I don't really understand the concept of slam. I have Fostex th900, Sony xm3, Apple air pods pro2, and LCD 2c and they have the least bass of all. I love them for great vocals and mids.

How about moondrop variation?

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now you don't

It’s going down

I swear those iems kept falling off my ears. I demo’d them in a convention and while they sounded good i cannot for the life of me keep them in my ears

Am I the only one noticing the upside down V OP drew on Squidward's blinds to make the Audeze logo?

Robust

Clearly, we need more universal definitions of some of our terms. Most people hear are talking about frequency response, while I know that some also use slam to refer to things more along the lines of macro dynamics, punch, bass impact, presentation style, etc. Since this post compared the LCD to ALL iems, it clearly isn’t referring to tonality.

Also, iems can be pretty reasonable in these categories, and in some regards, the LCD slam is nothing special compared to focals, again, depending on definition.

People seem to forget that you can ride a motorbike all day with a helmet on that weighs far more than a set of Audeze.