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Best App features on any platform, WORST SOUND OF ANY PLATFORM. for those who disrepute this, please dont, you're just showing your lack of expertise and ability to hear
Why is no one talking about her beauty OMG 😳 so stunning and fancy. Anyways, good video! I’m considering the device to use my phone a lot less, basically a whatssap device
Listening to music through the Gryphon the experience is deeply immersive, which is attributable to the fact that the added detail the Gryphon produces doesn’t come at the expense of the artist’s and producer’s intentions for the mixes. Unlike some other DACs, tracks sound familiar but better, instead of breaking into discrete audio stems that you must put back together in your head. Most importantly, the iFi Gryphon improved the sound of every single track I played through it. What you won’t get from the iFi Gryphon is that absolute commitment to revealing every detail THAT ULTIMATELY MARS some audiophile gear. The Gryphon’s output is always musical, and the mixes stay glued together rather than becoming a collection of individual instruments and parts that compete for your attention. To my ears the Mojo II just sounds different, but not better.
IMO the iFi Gryphon renders so much detail that it's almost scary, but it doesn't overdo it, especially when using good headphones. It has a natural detailed realistic sound that presents familiar songs better than ever, but without embellishment. The Mojo II imo doesn't improve on the Gryphon at all, it just sounds different, but not in a better way. I can add a comment here from an esteemed true audiophile, which adds weight to my own opinion of the Gryphon, where he says... "What you won’t get from the iFi xDSD Gryphon is that absolute commitment to revealing every detail that ultimately mars some audiophile gear. The Gryphon’s output is always musical, and the mixes stay glued together rather than becoming a collection of individual instruments and parts that compete for your attention. The experience is deeply immersive, and I’ll attribute that to the fact that the added detail the Gryphon produces doesn’t come at the expense of the artist’s and producer’s intentions for the mixes. Unlike some other DACs, tracks sound familiar but better, instead of breaking into discrete audio stems that you must put back together in your head."
Really curious to hear from anyone who's tried listening to IEM's on the Element X, X2, or M2? What you think of the performance? Any issues with audible noise? I see the X2 and M2's headphone output impedance is quoted as "< 12ohms" and "< 22 ohms" respectively, which seems odd. However, Matrix Audio doesn't disclose the output gain, so it's very hard to figure out how well IEM's will work, or not!
I don't think these two co-workers get along well. Or maybe is the script that makes the energy weird. Its like he asked her on a date and she refused and now they are uncomfortable with each other
My only annoyance with the AK players, I can't install a video player on there. I have the Kann Alpha and love the sound, just wish I could watch video on it. Even the Kann Ultra doesn't allow it (which I plan to eventually get). One of my favorite things to do with an AK DAP is to connect it to a PC, so I can watch ASMR videos. Would be nice to just bypass having a PC and just have the video on the DAP. I also have the Sony NW-WM1AM2, but dear god did they put a slow proc in there. You have to uninstall or disable as much of the Android bloat as you can to get it to run reasonably okay. Sony should have did all that for me, not me having to go in and configure it all. I wanted both, as I want an analytical sounding DAP and I also wanted a warm sounding DAP. One thing I did find out when used as a USB DAC, the AK works flawlessly. Music or video, perfect. The Sony, perfect for music. When watching video, the audio and video are out of sync. Probably less than a sec out of sync, but still very noticeable. I have an AK SR25 that has the same audio/video sync issue. I don't know why, but you never see anyone talk about these things with DAPs. I guess they just expect everyone to not be using them for such and have a desktop setup already. I mean, I do have that at home, but I use my DAPs at work as DACs.
Hope you can help? I used Samsung phone connected with AudioQuest usbC to usb B inserted to my Denafrips external DAC, plays good and fine. Just replaced to latest Honor V3 phone and the audio becomes corrupted with intermittent oscillation type noise. What do you recommend, as a solution? Can yr Dragon usbC---- usbB cable solve it?
Hello, I mix and master with MM500's straight out of my mac book pro which seems to drive them easily. I need a comparable closed back that could also help me keep things portable. Great channel, any suggestions?
I own both the Empire Ears Raven and the new limited edition collaboration the Astell&Kern x Empire Ears NOVUS IEMs. The Novus has superior sound quality, better Dual Sonion Bone Conduction Drivers, a tighter, more controlled, and harder hitting bass. The Novus does a little better job in the treble region and never has any sibilance issues. The stock Effect Audio tribrid cable is very good. Having said all that, the Novus is $1,400 more than the Raven so you have to ask yourself what's that little bit of extra sound quality and Bone Conduction Drivers effect than the already great Ravin. I think so, but that's a personal financial choice as well. I really only have two hobbies: IEMs and Music and building gaming PCs and playing PC games. both are expensive hobbies. or can be anyway.
One thing not mentioned here are the needed headphones. For these kinds of devices, you also need the very best in a wired, over the ear, HF headphone, in order to get the very best quality of music out of them, w/o any noise reduction, which kills the sound quality. I own a Sony NW-ZX500 SERIES DAP, together w/a set of Focal Elegias, Closed-Back Over-Ear Wired Headphones. I bought them something like four or five years ago. While not the very best I'm sure now-a-days, they still sound great when it comes to playing HF (high-fidelity) music, especially when it comes to classical. My Sony DAC has Android on it, which isn't the most energy efficient of an OS. Perhaps they need to replace it w/one like Steam uses, which is tuned for their gaming handheld, and is very efficient as a result.
Enough of us. I use 2 Skullcandy crushers (ANC2 full, Evos for planar drivers) one molded to not bleed audio, for its Planar drivers, 53 ohm, and in ear monitors on a 600 ohm preamp and 100 ohm splitter. Running off a DAC (Helm) DSD/328k 32bit. Delicious mobile theater. I REQUIRE Spotify allow lossless
The wireless quality sounds absolutely amazing normally, but what worries me is when you connect to a call the quality drops to abysmal. I don't have this problem with wireless headphones that use a dongle instead of bluetooth
Soft white gloves should be used whenever touching a DAP. It deepens and widens the sound stage and improves the richness of the tonal quality of the device.
I need hi-res and have the DAC and speakers to handle it. I play music for a lot of parties and need cross-fade. I think that narrows it to apple music and Spotify. I use 3 different HP lap tops that are better using FLAC and apple uses AAC. format. So it sounds tinny with not much depth. And would sound better if i used Mac. Spotify uses FLAC, but does not offler CD quality. Does anybody have a solution???
after watching Hifiman slash prices of the HE1000SE from $3,000 to $1699 and now back up to $1999, I wouldn't touch the sus unveiled for more than $4,500. These companies are being absolutely ridiculous with what they are charging. As the tech matures, the prices will get better. In the future they will find faster ways to make the diaphragms. I know that there are some things, during manufacturing, that cost some $$$, resources, and time, but a price tag of $8,000 is beyond dumb.. It is a marketing strategy at this point
I like the 904L steel on the A&K, but I hate that it's polished. That thing is a fingerprint magnet, and you're going to see every hairline scratch on that case. They should have sandblasted or brushed it instead.
Serious question: What are the benefits of spending 4 digits on a Walkman when you can just buy an MQA certified headphone adapter for your smartphone and subscribe to Tidal?
Hi, I’m no expert but basically, phones aren’t built to prioritise high quality audio from the ground up. DAPS are. Phones are jacks of all trade devices full of hardware and software unrelated to audio that constantly compete for priority. The hardware is all packed tightly together including antennas. This makes them internally very noisy electronically, (like a mini pc) and often galvanic and RFI isolation of internals and power supply aren’t up to high end audio standards. The internal audio components like dac and amp chips aren’t nearly as high quality either. The phones software also isn’t designed to prioritise high quality audio above all else, and it’s very bloated and full of unneeded apps, protocols and software for other devices you’re not even using. Tidal is a very good streaming service, but you can easily buy or rip your own high quality lossless or high res flac files. Then you own your music and the versions of it you prefer to listen to forever. Also, the digital signal from a flac file played directly from an ssd or internal memory is unlike to be degraded getting to you as much as the same file sent over a standard internet connection. None of this is necessary if you’re not particularly interested in getting the best possible portable audio, but put it all together and it’s like catnip for those that are.
