Oh, I posted a drunken rant elsewhere on the thread arguing just that. Cheers!

I think that's exactly what the special app is doing, it would be sending the UAC command to change the volume on the dongle. The issue with low volume on Android with the Apple dongle is related, by default it is set to 50% and Android volume buttons only reduce the sample volume. Universal Audio Player Pro is another app people use to be able to control this hardware volume.

My understanding, with BT it is sending a full scale signal either way, some BT devices have the option of their own independent volume but I'm not sure whether you use the volume on the device matters.

With the Qudelix and Android it will show the input at -0dB all the way down to around 35% volume and then below that it does attenuate, but not very much until you get down to the very bottom. I don't think in practice there is any issue using the device volume, not for my devices anyway.

I know you posted it as a joke, I’m just drunk and ranting.

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I unironically started with lossless that way. You used to have devices only support some formats so you had to convert and having lossless to start from meant you had the best conversion. After a while, having a ton on FLAC meant I didn't want anything new to not be FLAC, it wouldn't match the rest!

It's terrible

That's the best part, it doesn't

"inverted snobbery" is the term you're looking for. And for the most part I agree. A lot of people seem to think confirmation bias only exists at the expensive end of audio but it works both ways.

And there are some phenomenal headphones that are 80% of what the flagships do for an order of magnitude less in cost. There's a reason I keep 660s and DT1990s around.

I can’t listen to any lossy format music for longer than a few minutes, but I’ve never had ringing. I just get irritated

It also came with a remote...

Good thing I bought it used! I hope you get to experience it one day. Happy listening until then!

What volume do you listen?

Really funny because the Atom has one of the worst knobs

Freq response is like the color tonality of your TV, resolution is how many pixels it has. I often wonder why this is so hard for peeps here to understand - there's even charts to measure "resolution" in terms of accuracy of various frequencies over time: waterfall charts. In those you can see which freqs have more decay. High resolution headphones have shorter decays. Planars have short bass decays for instance. To simplify: Freq response is a 2D snapshot of a 3D scene. Resolution requires that snapshot to be measured over time with how accurately it moves air precisely within that freq range.

Much of this "freq response is everything" I feel is wrapped up in classism (these $1k "high resolution" headphones can't possibly be worth it, especially because I can't afford it) and confirmation bias than anything else.

I got the K7, it uses a laptop style charger where the wall plig is normal and there's a box in the middle of the cable

I would think the same if I spent 5k on an LCD-5

The mark of any quality meme is that it leads to disagreement about the definitions of basic nouns that compose reality

He is most def hating. I call it what it is. Trust me. So what if he just wants to talk to others that enjoy high quality shit? I literally daily a Trackhawk which cost me 107k out the door. I like to chop it up with others that drive similar cars. I like people doing well and getting what they want in life. This clown is a grade A hater.

3k in my phone. The 4tb is divided into different Bluray, DVD-A, and SACDs. One Bluray is about 10GB. The biggest is around 42GB IIRC (John Lennon).

Yeah way above my price bracket! I will surely go to play with them at the store, though.

But do you listen to all your 4tb? How many tracks do you have? I would just put all my favorite tracks on my player

And I am just too lazy to convert my lossless collection to lossy.

Cause it's more convenient and I don't have to transfer all my collection to my audio player. It's inaudible anyway especially in my usecase which is traveling. I just keep my collection just in case I need it (like when I don't have internet to stream). Also, I don't have 4tb of storage in my phone.

I don't think he's hating at anyone, he's just stating that the OP wanted an excuse to flex on his HD800, which could be true or not. Being an audiophile subreddit, it's more on the true side, I mean, it's not like OP is wrong in flexing on a superb pair of headphones, I'd do that too, but headphones doesn't really give even the most high skilled players an advantage, or even an edge, but it's good AF to have a good pair of headphones/IEMs for gaming.

That's me, but flacs are for arCHivAL purposes