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tomatillo_ t1_ixyhubw wrote

What does it mean? Well, if you have an audio shop near you, try and audition the exact same pair of headphones, with the Apple dongle and then with a dac/amp, and you decide for yourself (: If you detect no difference, that's your money saved (or put into a new pair of headphones more likely, knowing us)

Personally if you ask for my experience, I tried this with an Edition XS. At pretty similar volume levels, with the Apple dongle (and blindfolded at home where my headset was plugged into my pc's motherboard) I noticed the sound was pretty congested. Everything's still happening, just blurred into each other as compared to with my ifi zen dac v2/questyle m15.

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[deleted] t1_ixyms98 wrote

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lr_science t1_iy1rh50 wrote

so… what you’re saying is you’ve only ever listened to your Sundaras via headphone out and you don’t like it much?

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[deleted] t1_iy2cio9 wrote

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lr_science t1_iy2u4zh wrote

So for all you know it might just as well be the case that you don’t like the Sundaras?!

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lr_science t1_iy4nmvq wrote

but based on what you said you don’t really have the data to back that up? if you’ve never heard them with an amp, how do you know a powerful amp would fix your issues with it?

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Unbelievable_Girth t1_iy3dp92 wrote

What open-backs have good bass around 300 bucks tho? ATH R70x and DT 990 pros all need the help of an eq to get a good rumble.

I want to upgrade into good bass but the closest is Hifiman Edition XS (also with EQ ofc).

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lr_science t1_iy40j1q wrote

I would advise you to try the 1770 Pro, it’s bass-heavy and the most fun headphone i’ve tried so far. It sells in Europe at around 400€. Or maybe the 177x from drop?

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Unbelievable_Girth t1_iy5ii7r wrote

Unfortunately closed-backs don't really work for me as I have some T H I C C glasses. Sadge

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lr_science t1_iy5l7iw wrote

I don't follow. What does the one have to do with the other?

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tomatillo_ t1_iy6tojs wrote

Closed/openbacks dont make a difference on that front, I'm also running some chunky/thicc glasses myself.

I'm not much of a basshead - more so than sheer volume and quantity of bass I like mine restrained and NOT bleeding into the mids or bloating, so on days I'm craving for bass my XS + bassboost button on my ifi zen dac v2 makes me very happy. The Sundara is a slightly warmer presentation, with bass slightly less tight/controlled IME.

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