Recent content by eelpout

I liked the Edition XS for the 6 days they worked for me; the left driver went to about 20% volume after that. Membrane sticking? Who knows; I never drive cans very hard. So, they go back to Amazon. :( Returning to the Drop HE-5xx for now.

I'd imagine you'd scoff at some of von Bahr's early work and "tech" from the 1970-80's with two-track Revox A-77 reel-to-reel recordings and a pair of Sennheiser MKH 105 microphones. But for fans of a location's space and ambiance, they are fantastic. Much like Meridian recordings of the same era.

back when I started having this issue on my then new MBP M1 Pro using Big Sur, on a Reddit thread (or maybe MacRumors, can't remember now) someone mentioned a tiny application called MacClickFixus. it was created to keep the audio bus open continuously for people having issues with audio click...

that just seems weird to me. anyone know why it's like this?

yes, it would be, on the unbalanced jack. for me it happens regardless of OS/platform so it's definitely something in the DAC. Firmware flashes haven't fixed it. It's possible I damaged it somehow. I think this is different than the interference issue.

sort of, but it works fine over the 2.5mm balanced jack and as long as I listen in exclusive mode on the 3.5mm, it's fine. it's just shared system audio that's the issue. I now think there is a short somewhere on the 3.5mm jack or traces. Hidzs wants me to make a video of the problem before...

something is going on with mine recently too. when using the 3.5mm jack, it has tinges of sounding underwater and there is always a music track blended in. very odd. it happens for me no matter what it's attached to, laptop or phone. what's also strange is it doesn't happen on the 2.5mm jack. I...

mine, with v1.1 firmware which I received from Hidizs, works fine under Windows, but skips and stutters under Mac OS Monterey (Macbook Pro 14" w/M1 Pro). They seemed to have fixed that on the regular S9, but that's a different chip.

I'll see if I have a USB 2 hub still lying around. I thought maybe the USB-A port on this laptop was USB-2, but it's not. BTW, the drivers for the S9 Pro are showing up as Comtrue for me. But it does say SXW UAD for ASIO.

I finally tried some DSD 64's from various sources, they ALL stutter and sputter like crazy on my S9 Pro (Foobar2000 and Audrivana). These same files play fine on my S8 and a FiiO. Crap. :( Edit: someone mentioned the "Comtrue USB Audio Device" for ASIO so I went and found that driver. Oddly it...

One clear difference I'm hearing is that the S9 Pro bass is a bit "woolier" and more emphasized than the S8 in the C1 (32 Hz) range, I'm not sure which is better or more accurate to the source, but I listen to (too much!) organ music and with this they are clearly dissimilar. (both balanced...