Cellist88

Love the form factor but for the price, seems a bit of a let down from an A7CR plus a good prime for less money and not toooo much bigger a package. Hoping they will continue the RX100 line next.

Wanted something like a cb19 or wy1. They sound so different, which has me curious because I usually hear only subtle changes in cables.

I would buy one too if anyone could make one.

Even charging won’t work because the charger and the device talk to each other to determine how much power to send etc.
I think it might be possible to make a cable with a switch to change which device is connected. This will just be a quicker way of replugging the cable, though, i.e. music will stop playing and will have to be restarted.

@EagleWings Well, the plastic thing is mostly the reason I jumped to the elite. It is more analogue, but still has a softness to it. I felt the culprit was high impedance or ESR, to respond dynamically. So ultracapacitors makes everything immediate, fast engaging. Didn't test on the Power X. I'll have a second one next week, so I can send it one over if anyone wants to experiment.

I would say its a bigger change than the synapse.

@Cellist88 looking forward to hearing your impressions with the iPower X, if I understood you correctly. I’m curious about what the sweet spot is for iFi power supplies. I’ve got a zillion iPower2s of various voltages since I tend to just automatically replace the brick on any equipment I care about, but if the X is indeed better I’ll pick one up for testing.

Nope, it’s all a “sale.”

Feels more like a clean out

Save your money for stuff you really want?

I have a DC07 Pro but haven't gone mad max like you with it :D

I'm gonna have a really busy two weeks where I probably won't even use my airpod pros. How about I send you everything you need, along with the fathoms to try?

ok! As soon as I have my ortho iems ready I of course will force you to borrow them :D

Thanks! Problem is, it's usually impossible to get these open. I might reach out to Kiwi and see if they'd send me a few with the shell opened up so I could have my way with them

what monitors do you have?

Eve sc307+ts110. A bit old but still good. Despite the size, they don’t sound bloated even at low volumes

Huh. Didn’t like the DC Elite with the Synapse + CB19, thought it sounded excessively soft. I’ll have to try the DC07Pro in that config.

@yotacowboy FTW

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Like the pic showing it plugged into the $400 DC Elite (which never sounded better).

"with the aid of knowledge in metallurgy"... all those waffle words does not inspire confidence, and their first technical point is so incredibly wrong (says the guy who spent over a decade of his life doing research in the field of metallurgy)

I didn't have any other iBasso dongles when I did my Fathom review, but I will say that among the myriad of things both portable and non-portable I had at my disposal, the DCElite was a considerable improvement in synergy. I don't want to gush, but the Fathom/DCE combo is the only combo where I *completely* forget I'm using IEMs.

Also, I usually listen 2 or 3 clicks up on the volume wheel with Fathom and the DCE, depending on the music/mastering. No discernable hiss whatsoever. iPhone->JDS Synapse->CB19+power brick

I'll also add that among the CFA IEMs I have/had at the time (AndroOG, SolarisOG, Moon Rover, Darkstar), none, and I mean none, synergized with DCE as well as the Fathoms.

Imma pair this with that dac that mixes and combines all dac chips in existence!

jokes aside - what were they trying to do here? i can't imagine all of those drivers working properly together on every single unit. especially if they want it to last for "a long time". or is this just for them to say "we did it".

I thought it was a joke when I saw this post and had to go look what you were talking about when I realized it wasn't - I'd love to see a cross section I can't even picture how they crammed all those things in that housing, has to be a nightmare for longevity/maintenance for sure

@Vtory

Since getting CIEM Fir XE6, I haven't touched any headphone. XE6 is not for everyone but there are many good IEMs these days.

Any hiss with very sensitive IEMs? My Jupiter seems more sensitive than my Nair.

Fathoms are 118 sensitivity and I don’t hear any hiss. I specifically got them for the low noise floor because I can’t stand hiss

Try PC

@YMO Okay Mr. Pushy, I tested on my Mac. No delay.

The ibasso sale….

I tried it for a bit running a 4.4mm to dual XLR into EC Af against BF2 (OG) and later against Yggdrasil LIM and felt the DCE was more comparable to the BF2. Both BF2 and DCE have a fairly weighty presentation, but not overblown, so both paired well with Af. I do feel that DCE plus CFA Fathom is just a gobsmackingly good synergy, for whatever reason, so that's how I tend to use it almost exclusively.

Thanks! I got the dc07 because it was for portable use instead of at home. I hope it has good synergy with the fathom. Need the low noise floor