Recent content by PieterG

Now i feel less certain about my choice... hopefully the R2R won't disappoint my rock guitars and drums loving ears.

Sorry you didn't get any replies so far. It's not very clear to me where your priorities are, and what source you are connecting the headphones to. Since you already have a mic, i would suggest you look for good closed back headphones. Fiio FT1 are a lot of sound for you money, but user reports...

I just ordered a K11 R2R. What it does have, is a good headphone amplifier with different gain settings depending on the needs of your headphones. The R2R sound will probably make your HD650 sound a bit warmer and thicker, so less neutral/analytical, which is a matter of taste. The Fiio DAC...

MacBook to USB input will give your amp a better source signal to work with. If your Topping and Hegel are physically connected, you will theoretically have better resolution and lower distortion by using the DAC to process the source and send it to your Hegel on an analog input. The H160 has...

I don't believe bluetooth currently supports lossless cd quality, let alone hi-res. The closest you can get is aptX lossless with a Snapdragon chipset, as Vincent says. It offers 1.2Mbps bandwidth in ideal conditions and will use lossy compression if the signal quality is insufficient. LDAC...

I believe your CD60 is higher up the Marantz ladder compared to the amp, and they typically use better chips in their cd players to begin with. So it's to be expected that your CD60 DAC is technically better, more accurate and detailed. Assumptions like that are the reason why i don't take the...

It sounds like your room and setup are fine. If you have a "loudness" setting in your audio path somewhere, switch it on and see if it improves things at low volume. I can relate to your experience. My daughter is very sensitive to sound, so i turn the music down when she's in the same room...

Same here. I actually use foam and silicone at the moment. The silicone ones are easier to wear for a long time (2 hours and more), but the memory foam is even better for keeping ambient noise out. Unfortunately the tighter fit of the foam feels slightly irritating after a while. My ear canals...

You nailed it! 🎯 I had not heard of Cambridge IEMs, maybe they don't sell many in mainland Europe? Looking at how they're constructed, i expect they slide into the ear canal and create a good seal. I always wonder why they add noise cancelling to a design like this, or maybe it has no negative...

The M-DAC was very well regarded at the time. Audiolab released the D7 and D9 recently. I have the D9 and find it excellent. I'm sure the D7 is too, just a bit less "sophisticated" because it has fewer conversion channels, a different power supply, and a simpler display. I use the headphone amp...

This sounds like bad signal transmission, like when a speaker cable is not properly connected to one of the binding posts. If it's both speakers changing volume simultaneously, i would be concerned about the amplifier.

I still think it's worth trying to connect the HF and LF wires together to the speaker terminals (2 pairs left, 2 pairs right, and obviously paired correctly). If you make sure the speaker connections are in place before you turn on the amplifier, and make sure to turn off the amplifier before...

Something to check... Do you clear your song queue when you finish a listening session? I have noticed (particularly with Spotify actually) that if you have a connection that wasn't terminated, the playback device doesn't always appear, probably because it's in use by another device and doesn't...

I think the soldering is the problem here. You need to make both the HF and LF connect to the same speaker binding post, but their signals cannot "touch" each other as that will create a short circuit between the two amplifiers. As a practical solution, you could try to twist the HF and LF...

Sounds like a bluetooth pairing issue. You can pair it with any device but it can probably only remember two. If that's the case, then you'll need to set both your headphones and the device in pairing mode so they can discover each other. The new pairing will replace one of the previous two that...