ColdsnapBry

I thought the GO Bar was really good, but that was with the super efficient Campfire Solarises. Never heard the Gold bar but seems it does well with the HD6xx: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/ifi-gold-bar-review-and-measurements.12934/

If memory serves, someone sold one here with an extra faceplate not that long ago. Could be a lead. Best luck!

You're right! Saw that yesterday, but I didn't want to annoy the person. I might try though.

I feel this way about my MIAD-01

That's a cool ass phone @E_Schaaf! Definately a DAP killer.

Couldn’t you have the power supply rewired by someone who’s technical?

I believe the power supply itself is wound to the voltage which makes it impossible to rewire.

I’ve asked Craig before about switching voltages and his short reply was that for the Studio B it’s dual power transformer primary. I didn’t pursue this because my move didn’t go through.

The AKG K371 is supposed to slay.

As a Porta Pro evangelist this has me quite interested, I had assumed they would be another unremarkable option. Comparable to Porta pros out of a decent dongle/3.5mm port?

@Inoculator I use my Sony Wm1z as a reference for my Koss and I'm finding that this bluetooth version is better or just as good sounding as the wired version. I hear a blacker background with Bluetooth over any dongle that passed audio through USB I've tried.

Amazon marketing pitch: ".. no strings attached" as a feature.
I wonder if it only plays brass and percussion then.

EC FTW

Is this full circle, didn't you pass this one up originally?

@Gazny Yep, well sorta, I was like 2nd in line to buy it in like 2021 and missed out, Wow you have a good memory! It's been around AUS, but I'm bringing it back to USA where it belongs since it's 110V.

Try the M50 blue tooth/BT. There must also related models. There different versions, but audition first if possible (sound quality, compatibility Android/iOs, comfort etcetera).

Just a bit worried it will get worse. It also only happens like 4/10 times which is annoying to replicate in store for a return.

4/10 times is way way too much. Definite return/exchange

Enough blue to give @Donald North a run for his money.

@Armaegis it was painted at an autoshop too, so pretty close :P

Very nice!

Compared to Crack? Substantially better than Speedballed Crack. Different game than an OG Crack, which I still enjoy but isn't for me ultimately.

@Walderstorn I disagree regarding (OG) MMB and Crack. Great pairing with HD600. Mega thicc with 650 though. At least with Speedball. Never tried it with the vanilla amp.

@ColdsnapBry as @Sqveak guessed, my 2nd crack didn't have Speedball, it was vanilla, thus it had that difference (worth mentioning i did not build any of them).

My first Crack was my favorite with the HD600s (black screen) and i had it for a long time with the 1st Modi, not MB. With my non-speedball crack i had the (OG) MB and i didn't feel the engagement i had felt before.

The Mainline...initially i felt that it worked well with my HD800s (less bloomy than the crack), mainly with Gungnir (OG), but as time went it started to fatigue me (as @RestoredSparda mentioned) and the MB was no different, still fatiguing and Soekris was a much better, balanced, choice.

Things not carried we would be more reliant on the manufacturer to send out or to borrow from the community, or would have to pay for ourselves. The YT channel is monetized but that in reality serves to cater to the YT algorithm. Revenue from the channel alone would not cover much for the operations.

thanks @netforce

@Cellist88 @SoupRKnowva I've had most of the Yggdrasil variants here for a while. Schiit has said they'll be sending the MIB but it's still not here yet unfortunately. As soon as that's here I'll be doing the full review but idk when that'll end up arriving.

I purchased an Ada and preferred my Koss still.

Yup I still have one for sale...

In private messaging people, it seems that LIM may be a good option in Yggdrasil land for that chain. However, I was asking about the Utopia OG if that matters. I know the 2022 version is a little different, but not much. I'm planning on trying the LIM at some point and comparing to my A2.

I use OG Utopia and 3F with Yggdrasil A1/GS. No complaints here.

I'd suggest a full ECP stack with a Walnut DAC, probably can find a Walnut X with a wanted ad here.

Potentially yes. I'm located in Canada though.

@Armaegis That's fine, CAN to US isn't too bad.

That is a hell of a discount. Yeah, seems amplification may matter less for those than DAC and transport, and from store demo memory that DAP was indeed not horrible at that

@crenca Yep

Have you tried Portapros with it? Hope hope.

@CEE TEE This was actually my first thought, that the Porta Pro would smooth it all over, since it does fairly well on sources like this. But I mainly use KSC75 now.