Recent content by Rodolfo

It would have been a 2.5mm end that connected to the 598s' input and a balanced 2.5mm 90-degree end that connects to the 2.5mm balanced output on my HiBy DAP. I may be able to look up specs, but it was in early 2022. It's not a connector as in your photo; it's a full cable. (I've recently seen...

Streaming is my 3rd or 4th favorite way to listen to music, but I go to the gym 3 or 4 times a week, so I can't associate these variables or I can't calculate whatever association that may exist. Also, some friends and acquaintances stream music at the gym, so...?? Lazy types I've observed...

I picked up a 2.5mm balanced cable for one of my 598s at Amazon about 3.5 years ago. I'm sure there'd be a 4.4mm version for your 650s there and elsewhere. For my IEMs, I have a replacement MMCX cable with replaceable/exchangeable 2.5, 3.5, and 4.4mm connectors. I haven't seen that flexibility...

From one well-known member to another, that HiFi Walker H2 is a cool-looking player. I use Fiio FH3s with my mostly-FLAC digital file collection on my HiBy players. They fit great and sound plenty good across the dynamic ranges for me. I do listen to rock and Latin albums, but mostly to jazz...

Perfect: my dear brother's name was Victor!

Welcome to the forum, germa! I have read and viewed some favorable reviews of the circumaural Fiio FT1 and am considering at least trialing them; and they are near your budget target and mine. BTW, I tried the Audio-Technica M50x years ago. I already had the Sony 7506s and found that the M50x...

I was a serious wired-only snob until a few years ago when a nephew asked me to try the LDAC-equipped headphones he used with his nice digital audio player. Well, today I find Bluetooth head and earphones very convenient and very satisfactory. I've used Sennheiser and Sony headphones for many...

I gather you meant music. It's stereo 2.0 for me, as it's been since I was 12, though for several years it's been through an integrated with A & B outputs. As a survey researcher, I suggest you always need an "Other" response category, optionally with a fill-in space. These days I actually am...

Agree, but still ideally in black for me: natural or piano black.

It is rather big if your sources have (superior) LDAC CODEC support and not... ;)

No. I might have considered them if they were LDAC-equipped.

Follow-up, not-as-great $40-bargain, same ~2017 year: My Technics RS-M240X cassette deck. I got the cassette bug that year because my brother and I found or dug out some cassettes, especially some LP-trans-whatever-they-were-called that my father had recorded for us, in the '60s, I think. The...

Google: no wonder... ;) I don't know of any caps on the "potential" of Bluetooth or any wireless sound. Readers may want to review the Wikipedia pages of the various Bluetooth hi-res-sound competitors (current ones only) to learn about -not search for- their capacities. LDAC was released in...

It depends on whether you have a good sense for what you want and how to shop for it. I don't have any experience with anything Marantz, but I do own and rely on a Sony CDP-CA9ES which I bought used to replace a (purchased-new) CA8ES that had lasted about 25-30 years. I have a good shop in town...