Ah, the 95x is very impressive, I can highly recommend it, I do enjoy mine. I would say it’s probably the most balanced estat under 1k, beating out the stax l300 and l500 for me. I highly doubt he would be disappointed. If you can get over the cheaper build it really is an excellent value
That’s my choice personally for what you seem to want sound wise. It just seems like the most flexible in the future to me
Also if your dad is a B&O guy too, the H6 are pretty great for the price if he wanted a portable headphone
And one more thing to complicate everything lol, if you wanted a more studio oriented headphone compared to the elex, the dt1990 pro is pretty sweet
So asio drivers can help, and if you want to use them go ahead. It’s a more direct path to the dac because it bypasses the windows audio mixer and is sent as bit perfect. The dac will adjust it’s sample rate and bit depth depending on the tracks played. Depending on the system this can help with sound quality, but sometimes it makes a super small difference. It also mutes all other sounds besides the program playing music with asio
So I actually did a smaller comparison for the 1990 vs the elex and another headphone here for someone else, and that should explain what I mean when I say a studio tuning. If you go through the thread I give more info than that single post
What are you using to play music? Optical doesn’t support asio but it does support WASAPI on Windows which does the same thing as asio
Since the enog2 pro is only optical or coax you don’t have to mess around with any drivers
Yeah I don’t know tbh, but if it isn’t using wasapi it doesn’t really matter that much anyway, because most people would be pretty hard-pressed to hear the difference, if there ended up being one (same with asio)
Hi MON, can ASIO and/or WASAPPI be enabled when using spotify?
I don’t know since I don’t use spotify. It wouldn’t really be worthwhile to really enable it though as it wouldn’t really do much since everything would be 16 bit 44.1 lossy
And through tidal hifi? Whats flac/lossless if im not mistaken
Tidal can operate in an exclusive mode
Thanx MON, I have spotify atm and very happy with it. Hastle free and they have everything. But there was one thread where someone posted tidal hifi links and I compared the same songs on spotify and they actually sounded better on tidal hifi. Almost like I had a better amp lol.
Yeah the better lossless quality is beneficial to getting better sound
If you really want to listen to dsd, dsd64 easily converts to 24 bit 88.2khz pcm. Most dsd music are either remasters of classic albums or more jazz or classical
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Correct, dsd is pretty rare tbh
Well, just make sure your turntable has a phono preamp, and if it does you should be able to just connect the koss to the phono pre output
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So to effectively use that turntable with the 95x, you would need to get a phono preamp. Does it have a MM (Moving Magnet) or MC (Moving Coil) cartage? You can pick a phono preamp from there depending on if it’s a MM or MC
You can get a new turntable but the pioneer seems pretty good, but I am not super experienced with vinyl setups so I can’t help you too much
I’m a bit late to this party, and I haven’t read all the comments yet, so forgive me if this has been said already.
I have the SMSL THX and the Geshelli Archel 2 Pro sounds as good but has less power… So if you like the style and don’t need the power you can save a few dollars.
The Magni Heresy, which I’ve been reviewing… Actually sending it back to Schiit tomorrow. Sounds better than my liquid spark. Its more resolving. It is crazy close to the sound I’m getting from SMSL SP200. Again, its so close that unless you just really wanted the SMSL or needed a balanced plug I’d recommend the Schiit Magni Heresy. It sounds about the same as the Geshelli and has more power.
I’m waiting for a demo unit from Geshelli of the archel 2.5.
I still don’t have the Atom on hand so I don’t want to speak on it.