Recent content by tobes

Tidal is definitely not for Neil Young fans, most of his catalog is not available on that service (at least in Australia?). Young is apparently not onboard with MQA.

I've got that combination and they sound great together.

Yes, that's why I was looking forward to receiving them. With any buds the SQ is super dependent on the seal - so perhaps its just that none of the supplied tips worked for me(?). I really don't put much stock in the AKG branding. My second thought is that perhaps they're OK for casual...

FWIW the Samsung dongle drives my 150 ohm Sennheiser HD58X headphones very well. Not surprisingly, the SQ from the HD58X far exceeds the cheap Koss KSC75X I mentioned above - so the dongle scales well with better headphones. I'm waiting on a Meizo Pro dongle as I'm curious to see if the better...

Meizo Pro technical performance looks adequate for CD/MP3 files and the environments where I'm most likely to use my phone for audio listening. The superior power management and compact form factor of the Meizo Pro makes it more attractive for my intended use. I've ordered one. But the S8 looks...

Thanks for that info @staticV3. That's a significant advantage to the Meizo dacs for portable use.

Yeah, if you're ticking off specs there is nothing special here. But this thing is tiny, low cost, and the bottom line is it sounds quite good and isn't cumbersome to use. In Australia the Galaxy Buds+ are are free with S20 pre-orders. I'll be interested to see how they compare with the...

I just replaced my 3yr old Galaxy S8 with an S20+ and got one of the Samsung dongles to allow use of my wired headphones. Hard to believe that this dongle has a dac/amp squeezed inside - this thing is very compact. The S20+ comes with some USB-C earbuds - but they are awful tinny sounding crap...

Haha. Married 24yrs actually. My wife never uses the system in my music room.

That's a bargain price for a DAC3. Don't know about the DX7 but I own the DAC3 and Topping D70 - I'd take the DAC3 in a heartbeat.

I've had the D70 for more than a month. This is probably not the forum for subjective impressions - at least if not accompanied by DBT. I commented here and my impression hasn't changed. I have both the DAC3 and D70 connected balanced into the HPA4 - I can use either, but almost always...

Its unfortunate they didn't change things when you snapped your fingers - but I get your frustration.;)

I know that measurements are what this forum is about, but for some perspective its interesting to read the subjective part of the Stereophile Benchmark DAC3 review. The reviewer (and apparently other visitors to his system) found it hard to discern differences between the DAC3 and PS Audio DS...

Nope. So I guess it doesn't count.:facepalm:

You'd think so. I was prepared for an upset because the D70 appears to match (even exceed in some cases) the DAC3 in measurement. The AKM dac chip appears broadly respected while ESS is frowned on in some quarters. However the upset didn't happen. Some will say I was predisposed towards the more...