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Sound Quality and Transparency.
As measured by? Or is this your personal experience/ view?
Sound Quality and Transparency.
Measured by my earsAs measured by? Or is this your personal experience/ view?
Try enabling USB debugging in developer options & restart the phone afterwards... Regarding player try HiBy Music, it dose support local streaming and DLNA. It also has "HiBy link" with which you can control playback on one device with second one (phone to phone or supported DAP) via BT. MSEB is a story for it self, probably best DSP currently available once you get a hand of it.I received my Tempotec Sonata HD Pro a couple of days ago. It took Ali 6 weeks to get it to me (amazed I got it at all, considering Covid and the like). Great price for what it is ($49.68 U.S). First problem: Plugged into a Google Pixel 4XL, if you pause Spotify for a few minutes, resume will result in no sound. When this happens, re-pause Spotify, shut down Spotify (completely) unplug. At that point, video goes into slow motion (user video and YouTube) with no sound. Only a reboot will solve the problem.
I am hoping that finding a real music player will help solve this issue (at the least, help in diagnosing the issue).
Any suggestions for a proper hidef Android software (Pixel 4XL) music player (with local streaming)? Paid or free, not an issue.
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Thanks for clarifying.Measured by my ears
Seriously though, I was expecting better performance than the E1 9038S, this just doesn't sound very good. This might have good measurements but subjectively and in my opinion, the sound quality is very mediocre.
In what way(s) is it 'very mediocre'?
Mostly micro detail and transparency, the DAC is just not very detailed. Also midrange is a bit dry. Imaging is pretty mediocre too.
Not trying to troll. If you don't understand what all this means, you must not be very well acquainted with audiophile gear."Midrange is a bit dry"? Midrange means what, middle frequencies? What frequencies constitute this "midrange"? Dry as in lacking amplitude? Lacking clarity? The graphs clearly show a flat frequency response and distortion that's about even at all frequencies, with a bit of rise at the top.
"Micro detail and transparency" and "the DAC is just not very detailed? It performs pretty well in a variety of metrics.
"Imaging"? In digital audio, imagining is a phenomenon that occurs when an oversampled signal has errors, producing an "image" of the original signal at integer multiples of the original sampling frequency. I don't think imaging is really a problem on any modern DAC with a competent digital filter, and that includes this one.
Seriously, what does any of this even mean? You can't say you evaluated the gear with your ears because your ears aren't electronics. If you're not trying to troll us, you hold beliefs contrary to mathematics and basic scientific principles.
With all due respect, you better post these comments in another forum, here in ASR is all about measurements or blind listening tests.Not trying to troll. If you don't understand what all this means, you must not be very well acquainted with audiophile gear.
I got this DAC based on measurements but I was disappointed by it when I heard it.
I suppose this confirms measurements are good and all but at the end of the day one should audition with their own ears.
PS: If you are in the crowd that believes all DACs sound alike, we will never reach a common ground.
Yes I can confidently AB E1DA 9038S vs Hidizs S8. They sound way too differentWith all due respect, you better post these comments in another forum, here in ASR is all about measurements or blind listening tests.
Measured by my ears
Of course they'll sound different. The E1DA puts out way more power than the S8 and they have different output impedances as well. Unless you level match their outputs and feed them to a transparent amp in order to get constant output impedance, you can't reliably compare them with your ears. Not all DACs sound the same, agreed, because they can measure audibly different and/or the listening conditions might not be controlled.Yes I can confidently AB E1DA 9038S vs Hidizs S8. They sound way too different
It's not. E1DA sounds very bright and analytical. It has amazing soundstage and Imaging but not musical or rich in the slightest.For me, most DACs sounds pretty much the same, same for the Bluetooth codec on the same device/headphones pairing. If any, to me, the Amplifier makes the most difference in the source. Anyway, even if the E1DA is the most "musical" and "rich" sounding DAC, with great "imaging" and "great" soundstage and all the other nonsense that people on head-fi and other forums like to come up about when describing a electric devices, the E1DA 9038s is balanced only, which renders most of my headphones useless with it, even if I could afford to buy balanced cables for all of them, some (like my AKG712) doesn't support balanced aftermarket cables without modding. I am very interested in the single ended version, thought.
It's not. E1DA sounds very bright and analytical. It has amazing soundstage and Imaging but not musical or rich in the slightest.
Anyways, I think I will try some other DAC on Amir's list.
I enjoy my RME ADI 2-FS a lot and pretty much looking for a portable alternative to that.
Soundstage is how big around your head the notes can be casted by the transducers.Define "soundstage" and "imaging".
Those are subjective perceptions that are highly dependent on the transducers and perhaps DSP. The amp and DAC don't really contribute to that the way they operate.Soundstage is how big around your head the notes can be casted by the transducers.
Imaging is the ability to pinpoint the precise location of each note within the soundstage and how definite the note sounds, i.e, how 'not hazy/distorted' it sounds within the stage.