Recent content by RTHerringbone

Are you actually intending to buy one of these? You're asking a lot of questions about a near six year old product, but I'm not sure if you even want it?

Yep. The Ultra is a bit of an extravagance given I'm only using it as a transport. I went for it as it's a pretty close footprint match to the FiiO and I thought the screen would be a nice touch, but the reality is that I rarely look at that at all as I control it via my mobile phone, so that's...

I think the Topping is available from mainstream British Hi-Fi sites, but stock is an issue. I was between that and the K13 and ended up buying the FiiO as that was the one in stock.

I've switched to OS from NOS just to hear the difference, and it's definitely there isn't it? I chose NOS first time round because I preferred that initially, but I'll stick with OS for a while. I'm not sure if the K11 has the FiiO Control app? You can use that with the K13 to set EQ according...

I inherited an old set of Audio Technica ATH-ANC7B but they just weren't good at all; I haven't tried them on the K13. I didn't have a reference point when I first starting using them but knew that they felt very limited in terms of soundstage and overall I think they're just a very mediocre...

I can't comment on the K11 but have the K13 R2R. Mine uses a WiiM Ultra as a streaming transport and is almost always using Tidal as the source, so there are some similarities in our setups. My headphones are connected via a balanced cable and to my ears it's a great setup. Space and airiness...

I wouldn't say I'm a fan but some of his stuff has come up on recommendations from streaming services and I really love Nature Boy. If they have more stuff of that type and tempo then I'll gladly take a listen.

Nice bit of Nick Cave action :cool:

I think it's all very setup and room specific. Neat Petite Classics have two rear ports and the general consensus is to leave the larger port with the bung in (which is in situ when you get the speakers). If you have more space then you can remove that bung and not have any concerns about the...

When I resurrected the Hi-Fi habit a year or so ago, I first used a pair of Monitor Audio Silver RX7s that had been sat in the loft for 15+ years. In that time I lost the original foam bungs so we countered the bass boom from their rear ports with one single balled up sock in each rear port...

I will stop going on about these speakers, but they are fantastic - the closest equivalent I can give in my Hi-Fi experience terms is the jump I made from closed-back dynamic driver headphones to open-backed planars; it's just a different experience all round and it's an enormous leap. Earlier...

Also notable that WHFs view of the Best Wired headphones OVERALL is a pair of £89 Røde. Now price =/= quality necessarily, but there's no measure on earth whereby those are "better" than dozens, scores, maybe even hundred's of alternatives. The WHF "Best Buy" lists are frequently baffling and...

To be fair, he was very right about planars. I've got two sets now :love:

Comfortably past the mooted 30 hour "break in" time for the Neat Petite Classics now and I can't detect a difference to be honest, but I don't think I needed to. First impressions still apply and I rate them very highly. I've been having a bit of a chronological binge through The Beatles albums...

£5k would absolutely re-imagine my entire headphone setup which is probably considered borderline budget. I know very little about the higher price bracket stuff in the headphone space, so maybe that's where my roving eye and itchy wallet finger need to wander to next.