Recent content by trevor_mechine

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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    If anyone has any questions about my attempts to create a switchable A/B reference kind of test, fire away. I realise I may have made the process sound a bit more complicated than it actually was! ; - )
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    Pick your cheapest and best gadget!

    Moondrop Chu II IEMs - £17 and they're smooth, great on vox and impossible to beat at that price. Only snag is they're a bit fiddly to put on, cos of the ear hook leads.
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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    Just a quick bump to update this. I've since managed to cobble together a test that I think helps to identify what, if anything, the Moondrop DAC dongle is doing. Very briefly. I created two signals - one with the DAC, one without. The former came out of the laptop's USB port (using the...
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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    thank you! I am confident enough to tackle soldering up some 1/4" jack instrument cables, but beyond that I worry about dry joints, burning myself, and inhaling to many flux fumes. :LOL:
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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    thanks for the reply! "Assuming there is no other hidden system volume controlling things, quite simply no, you’re confusing loudness with better Quality." Yes! I think I could well be confusing loudness with better quality. However, until I can control for the difference in volume levels, my...
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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    Thanks for the quick reply! Your first point doesn't sound daft!! That's just the sort of thing I would overlook. However, on this occasion, what I am thinking is that - because I was changing my IEMs' connection, from the Dawn Pro, then to my laptop's 2.5mm headphone socket, the volume...
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    Moondrop Dawn Pro DAC dongle....erm, what?? Does nowt - why am I dense

    Hi everyone This is my first post, excluding my introductory one. I just bought the Moondrop Dawn Pro, and was excited to plug it into my HP laptop, connect my wired IEMs and stream some songs from YouTube, etc. etc. One of my first jobs was to do an A/B comparison between the Dawn Pro...
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    Announcement Welcome to the What Hi-Fi? forum. Introduce yourself!

    hello all - top 3 Desert Island disks: Zen Arcade - Husker Du Message personnel - Françoise Hardy Actual Life 3 - Fred Again.. cheers me dears