What did you buy today? (Part 1)

What M0N said is true and I agree. The fact you have an amp at that price range that sounds that good, with balanced inputs is pretty amazing. The Archel 2.5 drove my old Argon Mk3 with ease.

That is an insane haul for that priceā€“well done! I dropped more than that just on Zeus at Dropā€™s sale price and considered that a great deal. Those are fantastic IEMs. Rest of those items are all top notch, too. Enjoy!

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64 Audio U12T, on sale now @ headphones.com ($400 off). I am about to shut off the internet before I find any more deals, lol.

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Trying out some fancy XLRā€™s.

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decided to cancel tidal so i dont need MQA support in my dac

now i just need to see if something like the zerda can do 770s and sundaras or try something else like a zen or a hip (probs not an xduoo because i cant just keep it on all the time and never recharge and keep my computer connected to it)

Tips for my Moondrop Starfields came in today. I took the stock silicone tips off and put them in the right hand compartment of the Comply storage case.

I noticed a significant increase in SQ with the new tips. I had tried all three sizes of the stock silicones and just couldnā€™t get a good seal. The Comply memory foams werenā€™t cheap, but worth at least twice the price for how much they improved my Starfields.

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I just purchased a Soekris dac1321 from Modhouse Audio. No shipping confirmation yet, but Iā€™m extremely excited. Iā€™ve been eyeing this DAC for a while now.

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Just got my new ā€œDAPā€. To be honest this has a chance to replace my pixel 1 XL as my main actual phone.

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Finally arrived and sounds amazing!

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Niceee, any initial thoughts so far?

You really do want to listen through the Balanced out itā€™s very obviously better.

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For sure 100%

Even with rca as input? Because I do have balanced cables for all my cans.

on the balanced or se connection?

I bought this two and a half years ago. Still going strong!

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Did you order from Newegg?

I would try and use balanced if possible on both input and output

Im now running balanced on output and SE from my d50s. I have a smsl M300 on the way. Hopefully it will tide me over until i clear some of my older gear and ultimately get either a bifrost 2 or a ares II later this year.

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You might not see the difference with Just balanced out and SE in.
I havenā€™t looked at how they do the SE -> Balanced conversion on the input.
Running it balanced was a very obvious difference IME.

Do you know if the presence of the T-mobile stuff mean that this one is not unlocked? Because I ordered an unlocked one.