Recent content by fin

You seem to be placing too much emphasis on the idea that "they should sound different." Two high-quality, properly functioning daps or dacs&amps should not sound different under the same conditions to human ear. If there is clear audible difference, it might suggest that one or both units are...

It will be fine. But UCX II had good enough DAC. Unless you are building a measuring gear or utilize extra ports on your D90le, there’s no need to add another DAC only for some extra sinad dbs.

Sure, all quality DAPs sound similar, if not identical, regardless of whether they use ESS or AKM chips. What I appreciate about DAPs over phones is the physical buttons for play/pause, next/previous, and volume control. I really wish phones could have them too so I wouldn’t need to spend extra...

Mostly about marketing & hype I think? Seems only very few people with this hobby will just rest with something comfortable like HD650 and call it end game and never buy a new headphone again until old one's broken. Things I can think of: - Convenience & Simplicity: not every listening...

That design looks like something straight out of a data center rack. With that kind of budget you could fill a rack with some servers and ten NVIDIA H100 GPUs to run large language models up to 800GB. But to buy this massive metal pile you don’t even get an amplifier. Even less functional than...

Yamaha is well-known for its budget pro audio gear. I own several of their audio interfaces and analog mixers, which have been of very good quality and have worked flawlessly for more than a decade. They also produced some excellent orthodynamic headphones in the 70s. It’s disappointing to see...

In my case, I just want a bluetooth open-back headset to use at home for PC but they are quite rare. With bluetooth DACs I do have a much larger headphone pool to choose from.

TotalMix will just route its own audio; it will not get in the way of your other audio software. What you get from the input to your recording software is not controlled by TotalMix. If you want the recording software to get the signal going out from TotalMix (so you can use volume control, mute...

I just want to get an idea about the differences so I use Fabfilter Q3 to apply a low cut (brick wall) at 19kHz to both files, subtract the waves to get their difference in Audacity, slow down to 0.5x speed and boost like 40db so it becomes audible. Not sure if I'm doing it right, It's just...

Sure, the direction of change is good, but I thought Goldensound knew these things many years ago. If he will changes his subjective system for evaluating DACs, then some previous review videos were either not be genuine or not knowledgeable enough, thus misleading the audience who actually...

What's weird to me about this video is that, Goldensound in many of his previous DAC review videos mentioned how some DACs just sound better with many adjectives but suddenly there are no descriptions of differences about music in this video, such as sound stage, depth, layering, density...

Whether you appreciate it or not is a matter of individual specific subjective opinion at a given moment. It is not sufficient to infer or assume others' opinions or preferences based on this alone. We need information like objective measurements provided in the review which can work as much...

For many hobbies when you invest more money above a bar, it often turns into a "scam" that you are just paying for the brand and a sense of luxury. It's just for audio, the bar is pretty low. So I'd consider many already entered the scam realm. But headphones can justify some of its costs by...

I mentioned in earlier post that it's true a properly implemented tube will be quite transparent like SS ones but still many are not so good, so differences can be heard especially when frequency response changes due to damping factor problem as many people in this thread said. The post is a...

Changing waves can be good, but using fixed, colored, and distorted hardware to change the waves is one of the least effective ways to morph waves. Whether using hardware analog channel strips or software VSTs, there are millions of ways to modify sound to suit one's preference, and all...