why bother with those then

more meme IEMs tho and they're $39usd at tomtop

dont bother

chifi iems are always a money hole

ive lost all hope

fug

i just buy for interest in finding a good cheap option for folks

got a few things coming in soon that should be interesting

also how do you remove the heat shrink shit off cheap mmcx?

got one off eBay and got told to use a fucking hairdryer to be able to change the cable shape

lol

say you dont have a hair dryer

:^)

Any high end Chinese IEMs that are little know outside of China?

All of them

how high end u talking

from what i've seen here the tins t2 are real gud

super18 <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

only $2000 friend

One of the Chinese ciems manufacturers is working on trying to get known in the west

If you got 600$ and feel like going to custom art or other Eastern European ciem company is too mainstream these days

Forgot which one it is though

Might have been thinking of https://headfonics.com/2017/04/the-nf6i-by-nf-audio/

guys

my walnut v2s has arrived but it is acting weird

even though I have nothing connected to it

I mean only my headphones

I can hear "radio"

there are some noise and a lot of that noise are songs

there isnt sd card inserted either

and I can confirm now I am hearing a local radio

idk why

any help is appreciated

also even when the volume knob is at 12 a I can hear this radio noise

something is acting as an antenna then

wrap the pcb in foil and ground it :^)

easy solution

open your wlalet

buy astell and kern

don't

antenna feature friend, radio in new chip

@ubmit especially with unshielded headphones various pieces of circuitry (particularly transformers or even the actual drivers) can "catch" errant radio waves. These are powered headphones?

I tried with a hd681 and with kz zs5

actually I think my bluetooth/wifi antenna was messing up

but I still get noise when connecting the walnut to my mobo

also thank you guys for the inputs @HEKTIK @bentech @Windatica

also @Deleted User

noise from mobo is probably just shitty USB power

I fixed my noise from mobo by getting a new mobo

Lol

interesting choice

i wonder when my cpu will come

the thing is that my mobo isnt a bad one but probably it is old enough already

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z87PRO/

I have Z68-V Pro and i7 3770k

Itching to buy something new

But expensive since I want 32 GB RAM etc:p

My setup works fine, even run some VM's to learn stuff

Maybe I'll get something new once Intel come with some CPU's where Meltdown is fixed

ive got a ryzen 1600

i might upgrade to a 8700k at end of year

if funds permit

or just get a gaming laptop

settle down boys we aint #pc-fi

i hope my earbuds come soon

KZ ATE mmcx is a no go

its ever so slightly too big

fixed connectors > deatchable

thats why i only buy computers with potted components

apple ftw xD

@bentech how much are you going to sell your ryzen cpu+mobo for fam <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

ill prob just keep it tbh

got z87 pro + i7 4770k... its pretty good

i just need faster harddicks

<#189467888657235970>

decided to take apart one of the steelseries usb soundcard v2 units

very cute little pcb

big chip is conexant cx20873 dolby turnkey IC

small chip on top side is conexant cx20745 i2s codec

reeee

Mmm lines

What exactly am I looking at here

a frequency response graph

So if I want something good the line is supposed to be as straight as possible?

not quite

that's just frequency response alone

and my rig is a flatplate so it doesnt account for any outer ear interactions, which means the upper midrange and treble will never be properly accurate

but flatter = better in a general trend

oh alright

thanks

freq response isn't as important as distortion
flatter response tends to come hand in hand with low distortion because flat responses target people who care about quality, but I'd look at distortion first then see if the FR works for you

i cant do proper distortion plots atm because my room noise is too high :(

well

tried to take apart my broken zircons

don't do it

lol

heat works but it might as well be welded together

i want my dumb cheap iems to come

right one is the one i ended up melting, left one still has driver inside

i thought it was just pressfit with some glue

NOPE

its okay i have extra blutack laying around

diy earphones

I would delete that before a mod sees it ilves

<:alismirk:230784726615588865>

i mean it technically fits the topic if you consider music "audio autistic"

tho id rather we didnt have shitposting in here

Makes sense since the Beatles is the audiofool band
Yep I would too

Serious question now
How bad are the apple airpod clones and knockoffs?
Has anyone ever experienced one?

bad

the original airpods are pretty bad, and the knockoffs are even worse

That would explain a lot

if you care in any way about sound quality avoid fully wireless with a 10km pole

Just looking for some convenient options to see if one offers acceptable quality

Maybe the Bose SoundSport Free?

I tried the bose listening tests

The car audio is great but the headphones are all mid focused

I don't like that sound signature

ye the bose anc headphones are nice

imo, at least

I am a filthy bass junkie like Julian <:benis:239668961011040257>

qc35 and wh1000x are both really nice normiephones

I've seen some dude on my bus with some QCY wireless shitboxes I'm fairly sure are like $20 but I haven't bothered to check

Not enough bass for me on both of them when I tried one

Just EQ it in smh

You don't want to see my peace eq, it's like a 30db boost on the <100 range

If only a chink would make high fidelity cans or buds with bass that far surpasses the bluedio t3/jvc livebeat

<:sadmitu:331056421342806026>

maybe takstar ??

€500 is a lot of money for them

I know the pro82 has a bass switch

they're like $60 fam

Anything €100 below or ish is a choice

Pro82 hmm

Oh wait I thought you meant the kannons

The ones with like a built in rumble thing?

It's so hard finding the perfect suiting cans for your preferred bass heavy sound signature.
Anything that sounds like car audio with bass cranked to 11 in the settings is near impossible to find, I miss my dad's audi q7 with bose audio.

<:sadmitu:331056421342806026>

wat

All you need to understand me
https://youtu.be/cedfX-gzHuM

redpill me on lower frequencies

Anything below 20hz is good to break windows

bass is for deaf men without taste

just buy CAL

I just need headphones that sound clean but are so heavy that they start vibrating on my head

get one of those chair vibrator systems

Nah

Just get a vibrator and sync it with the music smh

Best I ever saw getting close to that are beat mixers for bass but sound like garbage for the rest of the spectrum.
But yeah mixing headphones for live performances isn't good

At this point I would switch to actual big ass speakers if I didn't have complaining neighbors <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

As windatica pointed out 85db is the reference for ya neighbors to start knocking on the door

every time Im having a party a visit from my neighbour is guaranteed

my friend is a drummer and legit every time he uses his electronic drum kit with speakers his neighbours complain without fail

I can hear my neighbors play piano and the trumpet clearly

Sounds like beats through the wall <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

toot toot

now in DSD 1024, experience the unheard.... you can't hear it

i realize im surrounded by like superheroes

you all can hear shit i cant

lol

what

B A L A N C E

ree

I made a big misconception

The way my new eq Works is by listening level ×1.(boost percentage)

So 70db×1.3= 84db of maximum bass

What about treble

Its not 30 decibels but 130% of the listening volume

Wow what the fuck is wrong with that B A L A N C E?

I use this, its just werks tm
https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/

i lost my headshrooms at college

should i just order new ones, or buy something else

what are headshrooms

headroom ms16

w8 until 11.11 ;)

wind ☺

they're seriously the best chink earphones i've used

get yincrow

which model**

x6

alright

lemme look it up

they look the same as monks, but they bump so fucking hard

yeah

i kind of like the red and cream color

though they do look just like monks, yeah

the red on them is really nice

he has it all wrong

Eiaosi X6 is where it's at

<:hahayes:330459104495665153>

<:chink:323022148870602752>

<:googlethink:328536447219138561>

emx500 r appreantly good as well

don't lube your headphones with graphite kids

it just slides off the plastic 😡

>teacher says that 24bit is placebo

LMAO

ONE OF US

its not tho

it is

16 bit has more than enough dynamic range as long as its not implemented retardedly

b-but higher is bigeg

@HEKTIK how is Qualcomm Aquistic on SD820?

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/06/02/qualcomm-aqstic-sets-new-standard-audiophiles

HTC 10 specifically

Noise floor is kinda shit

Tho as a whole, all that doesn't mean too much

I'm getting SD820, 4GB RAM, and 32GB storage with a good camera and alu build for $100aud with barely any use on it

Been in a case all it's life

Tbh just get anything with type c and get a pixel 2 dongle

it has TypeC so Pixel2 dongle is on the cards

get a chord mojo

and som ruber bands :^)

q

Would you guys recommend Bludio?? I'm looking for an inexpensive pair of wireless over-the-ear type headphones for casual use. I'm currently using Audio-technica m20x's, but the cord is annoying. I don't do much with them - just mostly Netflix and YouTube.

from what i've seen on interwebs , bluedio is lit

😄

bluedio 🤢

t3 is nothing but bass, t4 is supposedly better

t3 is unlistenable without eq

Ooh. I don't even really care for bass.

oops

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-2/graph#464/2031

they're both pretty fucked but t4 is far less fucked

😦 Aww

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-2/graph#464/2031/390

The actual fuck?

hear NOTHING but the bass

what

what is that graph

It's t4 and t3 combined

I think t3 is for dr beats kiddies

What other brands should I look at in that price range?

You can join the meme
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/AlwaysRight/32822587803.html

```the world thrives on disposable income
don't judge, be humble
high audio quality for all
peace,```

but its only a $1700 dap

```Haha once again a bunch of butt hurt poor Massdropers. If you can't afford, move on and go buy one of the $9.99 MP3 players. Stop trying to put down successful people who have money to buy nice things you can't afford in an effort to make yourself feel better. This is about half of what this package used to sell for. And to the genuis who linked to the Amazon page; if you spent five seconds to read the ad instead of jumping to conclusions you would see that it is being sold for $1,900 and it is the player only. This is selling for $1,700 and is the complete package you see on the front page. I have the original AK240 that I bought when it first came out about three years ago and I have never regretted it. It is one of the best purchases I have ever made. I paid $2,500 and use it almost daily. It has brought me immense joy experiencing music in a way I had never before. Remember some people think a pair of beats and an iphone is the pinnacle of the music listening experience while others want a bit more. To each his own, but just because you can't afford something does not make it overpriced junk. ```

***be humble dear***

LOL

2purchased

imagine shitposting so hard to defend 2 people

1700 is a p good deal tbh

help

What the fuck did you do