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DX3 Pro vs Atom + DAC

JohnYang1997

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I did, with similar results. Mind you, the differences are pretty minor, I could live happily with either.
So it's the khadas that's cleaner than the dac of dx3pro?
Is it possibly that khadas has higher high frequency distortion to fuck up some of the high frequency content?
 

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Dunno, I slightly preferred Khadas sound, it felt a tad more neutral. Would I be able to pick one in a blind test? Not sure.
 

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Dunno, I slightly preferred Khadas sound, it felt a tad more neutral. Would I be able to pick one in a blind test? Not sure.

I was using dx3pro as DAC/preamp (not headphone amp). Then I switched to Khadas and moved dx3pro to my phone rig. As DAC, Khadas was a lot better, it took me few days to get used to it, but then it was just killing it.
I'm still not happy with dx3pro with my Denon D7000 phones. Don't know what's wrong. Maybe I'm hitting the limit of what Denon can do?
 
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