Headphones

[QuarryHunslet]

I used to have the Grado, best bluetooth headphone I have listened to.

Yes, I like them, and I also used to have the previous non X model with the higher capacity battery, and that was also very good, although it seemed to be a bit bass heavy for my liking, but fortunately this has been tamed down on the X model, and as a result sounds much more balanced.

 

[gazza1101]

Yes, I like them, and I also used to have the previous non X model with the higher capacity battery, and that was also very good, although it seemed to be a bit bass heavy for my liking, but fortunately this has been tamed down on the X model, and as a result sounds much more balanced.

I would have kept them but my wife could also hear them so ended up being mostly unused.

 

[BowsAndArrows]

...one more interesting article:

Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people

More young people are presenting to audiology teams in England with difficulty processing sound.

www.bbc.com

Wow, kinda insane. Thanks for sharing.

It's weird how much of hearing is actually taking place in the brain vs the ear itself. Similar to how vision works, I suppose...

It's also interesting to note that many of the audiologists are concerned about NC headphones being the cause of the APD... could be a combination of things - along with tik to etc - trains the brain in general to have a short attention span?!

 

[Zap Rekowski]

Wow, kinda insane. Thanks for sharing.

It's weird how much of hearing is actually taking place in the brain vs the ear itself. Similar to how vision works, I suppose...

It's also interesting to note that many of the audiologists are concerned about NC headphones being the cause of the APD... could be a combination of things - along with tik to etc - trains the brain in general to have a short attention span?!

It's crazy how progress and technology are changing people/humanity... As my wife likes to say: A curse and blessing at once.

 

[wiimamp user]

Hope I may ask this question here..
I can buy a shanling silver usb c to usb c cable for my shanling usb dac..
Is it possible this could improve sound?

 

[slartibartfast]

Hope I may ask this question here..
I can buy a shanling silver usb c to usb c cable for my shanling usb dac..
Is it possible this could improve sound?

April Fool's day was a couple of days ago

 

[Pragmatist]

 

[wiimamp user]

April Fool's day was a couple of days ago

Thanks I stick with the cable that came with the Shanling

 

[Zap Rekowski]

I ordered a new cable for the Fiio FT1 this morning before going to work. Not because I believe in sound miracles, but simply because the otherwise very good Fiio cable is very stiff (I mainly use the headphones with the mobile devices XDuoo X3 II, LG V30/V40 within my living area). The original cable is still used for stationary sessions.
Unfortunately, a good quality and flexible Geekria cable was not available in DE. I have ordered now this one, approx. €23,-

 

[wiimamp user]

I ordered a new cable for the Fiio FT1 this morning before going to work. Not because I believe in sound miracles, but simply because the otherwise very good Fiio cable is very stiff (I mainly use the headphones with the mobile devices XDuoo X3 II, LG V30/V40 within my living area). The original cable is still used for stationary sessions.
Unfortunately, a good quality and flexible Geekria cable was not available in DE. I have ordered now this one, approx. €23,-
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I ordered a new cable for the Fiio FT1 this morning before going to work. Not because I believe in sound miracles, but simply because the otherwise very good Fiio cable is very stiff (I mainly use the headphones with the mobile devices XDuoo X3 II, LG V30/V40 within my living area). The original cable is still used for stationary sessions.
Unfortunately, a good quality and flexible Geekria cable was not available in DE. I have ordered now this one, approx. €23,-
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Can understand what you are saying..
The cable that came with the Aful performer 5 is very flexible

 

[Sake]

I ordered a new cable for the Fiio FT1 this morning before going to work. Not because I believe in sound miracles, but simply because the otherwise very good Fiio cable is very stiff (I mainly use the headphones with the mobile devices XDuoo X3 II, LG V30/V40 within my living area). The original cable is still used for stationary sessions.
Unfortunately, a good quality and flexible Geekria cable was not available in DE. I have ordered now this one, approx. €23,-
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Fancy look

Got these inexpensive Delock 2 m balanced extension cable , could not find any normal priced balanced cable for the Fiio FT1. Stock 1.5 meter is a little schort to my K7 amp.

Down side of extremely high priced cables is the extensive burn in period

 

[Zap Rekowski]

Fancy look

Got these inexpensive Delock 2 m balanced extension cable , could not find any normal priced balanced cable for the Fiio FT1. Stock 1.5 meter is a little schort to my K7 amp.

Down side of extremely high priced cables is the extensive burn in period

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DeLock has a good product quality. I use it professionally for some tests in the test laboratory

 

[BowsAndArrows]

Hope I may ask this question here..
I can buy a shanling silver usb c to usb c cable for my shanling usb dac..
Is it possible this could improve sound?

if you're looking for longer length, decent quality cables - oehlbach is doing a sale on their USB range at the moment. (EU store) quite sturdy and at the sale prices they are not much more expensive than generic cables...

hard to find good quality long cables on amazon/aliexpress - too much garbage mixed in

 

[wiimamp user]

if you're looking for longer length, decent quality cables - oehlbach is doing a sale on their USB range at the moment. (EU store) quite sturdy and at the sale prices they are not much more expensive than generic cables...

hard to find good quality long cables on amazon/aliexpress - too much garbage mixed in

Thanks for the tip

 

[MrA]

I have been very satisfied with these cables from Oidio, very well made & in both cases a noticeable improvement over those supplied by Hifiman and Beyer. Those on the Arya Organics can also be tried with the FiiO FT1s when they arrive and if the results are equally positive I will order another set with a different colour combination.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

I ordered a new cable for the Fiio FT1 this morning before going to work. Not because I believe in sound miracles, but simply because the otherwise very good Fiio cable is very stiff (I mainly use the headphones with the mobile devices XDuoo X3 II, LG V30/V40 within my living area). The original cable is still used for stationary sessions.
Unfortunately, a good quality and flexible Geekria cable was not available in DE. I have ordered now this one, approx. €23,-
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The new cable is a blessing. Light, flexible and superbly finished. As expected, no difference in sound. For this price, I will be ordering another one as a reserve with my next order.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

I still had some of the pocket money I had saved up. My wife shook her head, but I still had to order the Fiio JM21... The test reports are just too good. I'm curious to see if the DAP together with my headphones will perform as well as with my LG phones. Should arrive tomorrow

Guangzhou Feiao Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.-JM21

JM21 has a 13mm, 156g ultra-thin body, and is the world's first portable HiFi player with Xiaolong 680.

www.fiio.com

 

[alexcaire]

I have a request for the team regarding the headphone output, I usually have it at fixed volume, connected to an external dac, however a couple of times I wanted to use my headphones and of course I forgot to turned the fixed volume control off, so you can imagine what happened. Please make the volume variable the standard while using the headphone output , save my ears !

 

[MrA]

FiiO FT1s arrived this morning, 7 days from ordering via AliExpress to delivery with very impressive tracking updates throughout.

Hooked up to my Macbook/Qudelix-5K DAC & balanced mode they sound just as good as @Zap Rekowski had suggested they would. Strictly speaking, I should be annoyed with him () because with with slight PEQ they are really impressive and sound similar to my favourite & MUCH more costly Beyer/Hifiman headphones and with far less eq than these others require. What a bargain.... and I really like the colour scheme too.

Now I've set up the sound exactly as I want via the laptop I will continue using the tiny DAC & FT1s with my iPhone



(PEQ only 300hz and up, leaving bass without eq adjustment)

 

[Mr Ee]

I have been semi-seriously considering some headphones that cost 10× the fiio ft1; maybe I should give these a whirl instead!