The Headphone Community
79 FOLLOWERS
The Headphone Community is all about sharing the love of great sound through Headphones.
The Headphone Community
6d ago
I have an iPad 6th gen
It has the headphone Jack and I can get the lightning port to use with an apple dongle.
For these older models with the headphone Jack is it impossible to use an external DAC through the lighting port?
Cheers
4 posts - 3 participants
Read full topic ..read more
The Headphone Community
1w ago
Want us to review something? Share & vote on suggestions for what we review here!
Over the years we’ve gotten a ton of requests for things to review, but we’ve not had a place to aggregate requests in the same place to properly gauge community interest on product reviews… Until now!
Today, we’re opening our Review Suggestion thread for suggestions from the community.
All you need to do to add an option for public voting is to post a reply below to suggest a headphone/IEM for us to review. The “votes” will be likes on each post.
The post(s) with the most likes will be the ones most highly c ..read more
The Headphone Community
1w ago
Beyerdynamic’s DT 1990 Pro MKII is doing the same thing as Sennheiser with the 490 Pro, 2 different earpads, one for mixing and the other for producing (they used to call them analytical and balanced).
Price is at 549 Euro.
Comes also with a hardcase, two cables and two earpads, additional 6.35 adapter, however not with a headband replacement like the 490 Pro.
Really curious as to how this will perform or whether that’s just a copy paste release from Beyerdynamic to have something to compete with?
Anyone has gotten to try it yet?
global.beyerdynamic.com DT 1990 PRO MK II: Premium Tesla studio ..read more
The Headphone Community
2w ago
Hello everyone this is my first post .
I have been no stranger to the world of music and the wonderful equipment that reproduces it, for us, not lucky enough to go to concerts every day(like I did in Portugal when I was 20 ).
anyway I am after a really nice set of headphones for Classical music and I think the Shure SRH 1540 would probably do the trick , Or would consider other interesting suggestions of headphones . These used,.( Shure’s) … are pretty much what I want to spend ,$250’ish . I only learned about them from combing this website.I do not know that much about ,on ear ,or in ear audi ..read more
The Headphone Community
2w ago
Time to give the HiBY FD5 a mention and a proper thread.
More info on this DAC/AMP here: HiBy FD5 — Cyberpunk desktop HiFi
In reviews the FD5 is mainly praised for its musicality and dynamics.
(Just) coming from a FiiO K7, which has given me countless hours of joy, I can only attest to this.
The FD5 opens up and intensifies music for me.
The class A mode adds in my view what I would describe as complete “lushness”, while the class AB mode tones that down a little bit giving a tad more clarity and retains a little rawness (that some songs from e.g. U2 need in my view).
Maybe others can also sha ..read more
The Headphone Community
2w ago
Any news to Focals newest closed back headphone Lensys Professional?
3 posts - 1 participant
Read full topic ..read more
The Headphone Community
2w ago
Hello there,
Has anyone got to try the new Questyle M15C out?
How does it compare to the M15i in terms of sound quality and amplification power without taking the price into account?
Maybe DMS could chime in since he’s so fond of the original?
At half the price of the M15i and apparently the same internal components, besides the change in DAC chip from ESS to CS, it could be the best M variant Questyle has released so far, especially because Cirrus Logic is known to sound more natural.
I’m personally very partial to Cirrus Logic chips since to my ears, the most natural and linear sounding Pro ..read more
The Headphone Community
3w ago
“Soundstage” might be the most ubiquitous term in the audiophile lexicon, and it’s pervasive enough that it’s the only term to have a consistent foothold in the minds of non-audiophiles. I almost never see tech youtubers, studio engineers, or gamers talking about plankton or microdynamics, but I see nearly all of them saying they want “good soundstage.”
Even if the term soundstage means different things to different people, I think the core idea can be summarized fairly neatly. When listening to headphones the sound occupies a finite space, and the shape of this space as well as the extent to ..read more
The Headphone Community
1M ago
This is the place to discuss all things to do with the HiFiMAN HE1000 Unveiled:
Headphones.com Hifiman HE1000 Unveiled Headphones - Headphones.com
Meet the latest evolution in planar magnetic headphones: the HIFIMAN HE1000 Unveiled, the newest addition to the renowned HE1000 series. Drawing inspiration from the innovation and heritage of HIFIMAN's flagship Susvara Unveiled, the HE1000 Unveiled...
Price: USD $2,699.00
I’ve posted my impressions of it in a different thread already so I’ll add them here, along with the measurements.
B&K 5128
Raw
GRAS & HpTF Variation
Folks know that I ..read more
The Headphone Community
1M ago
In Tampa, Florida currently waiting out the storm to come in. Here’s some good deals, and also at the bottom are some of the factory outlets I check regularly. I buy a lot of audio equipment for the business, but with the airport closed today everything is shut down until Friday for shipping. If it’s from Hifi-College or Aoshida-US they have 1 year warranty on used items, and both have really good support for warranty items. Since the big 11/11 Aliexpress sale is a month away, here’s some good discounts:
Topping D70Pro Octo (silver) used $419
amazon.com
Topping D70 Pro OCTO DAC - 8X CS43198 B ..read more