wadec22
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First love the site and detailed reviews! Found it last night and am extremely excited to join.
After going thru roughly 30 headphones, I came back to the Denon ah-d7200 as my end game.
Currently I use a Creative x7 with a O2 amp. The Denon headphones are extremely sensitive, so they pick up hiss very easily. The O2 does a pretty good job but I can still detect a very minute hiss on silent background. I have a used Cavalli Liquid Carbon X from Massdrop on the way since the advertised output impedance is roughly 1/4th the O2.
Now I'm evaluating my X7 as a DAC....
Do you think I'd notice a difference moving to a Topping D50 or Modi 3? They both measure so well and the Topping is on Massdrop for another 18H (although an alarming number of DOA units on Amazon and MD).
I can find measurements on the x7 but I'm not sure I'd consider the sources super reliable.
Any thoughts or feedback?
Thanks in advance!
After going thru roughly 30 headphones, I came back to the Denon ah-d7200 as my end game.
Currently I use a Creative x7 with a O2 amp. The Denon headphones are extremely sensitive, so they pick up hiss very easily. The O2 does a pretty good job but I can still detect a very minute hiss on silent background. I have a used Cavalli Liquid Carbon X from Massdrop on the way since the advertised output impedance is roughly 1/4th the O2.
Now I'm evaluating my X7 as a DAC....
Do you think I'd notice a difference moving to a Topping D50 or Modi 3? They both measure so well and the Topping is on Massdrop for another 18H (although an alarming number of DOA units on Amazon and MD).
I can find measurements on the x7 but I'm not sure I'd consider the sources super reliable.
Any thoughts or feedback?
Thanks in advance!