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blargh4 t1_itt31cy wrote

What source were you feeding it before?

Really doubt it has anything to do with that DAC, unless it's defective and has some nasty high audio frequency oscillation for some reason.

K702 does have some pretty large treble peaks above >10Khz according to various measurements but it would be strange if it took a new DAC to make them troublesome.

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justaalawstudent OP t1_itt3u9v wrote

I was actually using it straight from my PC to the L30II, which is obviously not ideal but I didn't have anything else at that moment. My PC is pretty high end but I doubt the mobo DAC is better than the E30 (I could actually hear noise when my PC was under load lol), which is why I don't know why it sounds so harsh.

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RB181 t1_ittwv45 wrote

Depends on the specifications of that motherboard DAC. I'd expect the E30II to be more transparent than most, if not all mobo DACs (I also have the E30II, and it's better than my mobo's Realtek ALC880 at least with some of the more power-hungry headphones), but then you might just like the coloured sound of a mobo DAC more; more transparent does not necessarily mean better sound, as evidenced by tube amp users and the like.

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