The D50 uses filters from the ES9038Q2M chip. The DX3 Pro uses AK4493. Here are the measurements from RME for the AK4493 filters (Note that Super Slow has been replaced by NOS)Example from another Topping DAC:
I have carefully compared why the DX3 PRO lacks more bass than the iphone and ipad. Have you found out? And other DACs seem to be the same.Example from another Topping DAC:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ts-of-topping-d50-dac.2403/page-49#post-94424
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I have carefully compared why the DX3 PRO lacks more bass than the iphone and ipad. Have you found out? And other DACs seem to be the same.If it were mine I would leave it on F-3 (default for a reason) alternatively F1 or F-6 (should sound the same)
When you find the treble too 'sharp' use F4.
18kHz-3dB should be audible.
Thank you for your reply! I still have a question:Why do I feel that the DX3's bass is obviously lacking? Whether using iphone,ipad or PCThe slow filters roll off earlier but have worse rejection of images while having a lower latency.
The 'Short Delay' filters F-3 and F-4 are minimum phase and have lower latency but non-flat phase response, while F-1 and F-2 are linear phase and have as the name suggest flat phase response but higher latency.
F-6 is a neither minimum nor linear phase but a compromise. It has less non-flat phase response but higher latency than F-3/4 but still non-flat phase response but lower latency than F-1/2 while being almost as extended as the sharp filters but with worse rejection of images but better than the slow filters.
F-5 has linear phase, the lowest latency but also almost no rejection of images and rolls off the earliest.
Apart from F-6, the filters' performance can be seen here:
Source: https://archimago.blogspot.com/2018/09/measurements-rme-adi-2-pro-fs-as-dac.html
Anyways, the most correct, i.e. according to the underlying math (flat frequency and phase response and infinite attenuation after half the sample frequency (brickwall)), is F-1.
Also, AKM has made this interesting chart...
Source: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-adi-2-dac-and-headphone-amp.7546/post-176206
I have the same problemThank you for your reply! I still have a question:Why do I feel that the DX3's bass is obviously lacking? Whether using iphone,ipad or PC
Which headphones? Do you know their impedance?Same problem here just got my DX3 Pro, its a high resolution sound, but bass is lacking, just doesnt sound right and good. I send it back.
Fostex TH900 32 ohms.. even on thoseWhich headphones? Do you know their impedance?
I mean.. there was clearly less bass compared to the SMSL M500 on my 150 Ohms Sennheiser 58X.Fostex TH900 32 ohms.. even on those
I mean.. there was clearly less bass compared to the SMSL M500 on my 150 Ohms Sennheiser 58X.