You also have a night/amp? ;)

> I have the 660s and I just got the 6XX... can't tell a difference between them on any source.

660 is warmer/ has quite a bit less of treble. Maybe you're not so treble sensitive.

> 「Are you ok!?」

Well are you?

Planar headphones really suck up a lot of current. Dynamic headphones aren't usually as amplifier picky.

> "Headphone Out Power: 24mW(32 ohm), 83mW(300 ohm)".

This is not that powerful honestly. So no your amp is not handling the Edition XS all that well. A cheap enough combo would be Atom amp+ with its dac (or a Schiit magni+ with its dac).

To compare, Atom amp+ does 545 mW(9.04VRMS) @ 150Ω or 1 Watt (5.66 VRMS) @ 32Ω

EQ'ed HD600 (to taste) is so fucking solid.

Well yeah this DAP seems pretty ultra niche

Plenty of Intl people still order from Drop though.

> though I used Oratory's EQ and they became one of my headphones

Really one of the headphones of all time

No.

The input is a TRS but you bought a pretty niche looking product really. Can you still cancel it? If not return it.

Better buy this for same price https://www.amazon.com/Douk-Audio-Headphone-Amplifier-Desktop/dp/B08C2MKBGN/

all you need is a 3.5mm to RCA cable which you can find easily. Next step up would be something like a Fiio E10k but it's near double price at $75. And again next up is schiit modi/magni or jds atom/atom dac both around $200, but can also find them used of course.

Ah yes looks like there's an iEmatch 4.4 nowadays!

So has iFi made a 4.4mm IEMatch yet or is it still 2.5mm?

Was this the latest Lyr+ like OP has?

Yep that is correct. I would try the schiit at 3/4th of total knob level and try low gain and high gain into the topping and check what sounds best. But absolutely you can use the Lyr as a pre.

Doesn't help that DSD tends to be 6dB softer so you need to compensate in volume.

mid sounding mid

> I now use these in the kitchen working on puzzles with the Apple dongle

Apple dong 💪

Again. Like the others also say. If you have piercing headphones, don't keep buying dacs, amps. Literally, use EQ or get other headphones. You are doing this totally ass-backwards.

If the output impedance is the same on all these devices, there isn't a single logical reason as to why you'd hear such differences in bass and treble. It's not like you're switching from an OTL tube amp to a clean solid state one lol, you're comparing apples with apples and they should really taste the same..

>Hi, I have a Topping E50 but I find it sounds piercing in the upper treble.

The topping E50 is a totally normal DAC really. Modi+ won't sound different.

If it sounds piercing it's your headphones.

I neeeed music to get into the programming flow. Mostly hectic drum and base or dance lol.

Lol. What's that amp, exactly??

> Some people say there are huge differences in DACs but so far I haven't been able to notice that.. When something costs thousands it has to sound subjectively different I guess.

Yup. Same for me. I own an old 16-bit Sony TDA-based DAC and it rolls off highest frequency content a bit but other than that.. even an age old DAC sounds just about identical.

> my Xduoo TA-26 does a slighlty better job

I would hope so :)

> (I use my K5 as a DAC)

Oh. Well, it has 90+ dB of signal to noise ratio, it should clear any real world requirement of a DAC. So I guess you don't need to upgrade. Not really.

Honestly the K7 seems quite a bit better than the K5~

On paper that is.