There's another instrument for a split second during 0.28 and 0.29 (comes fades and comes. There's a faint ring of the bell at 0.25. This was the first time I was A-B ing music players. A friend of mine shared me this song - "Back to business" from the Violet Evergarden OST and asked me to check for faint thumps during 0.25 to 0.45. Little did I know how big of a rabbit hole I'd get into.įor long I had been using Microsoft's Groove as the music player. It didn't sound louder per se, but the impact, detail and just overall sense of surprise was absolutely mind blowing for me at that time - "mountains" from Interstellar made my hairs stand up. Makes sense since electrostats are capacitors. After getting NX4 DSD, I simulated a low pass in matlab and I confirmed my doubts. I realized that it was the low passing that made it sound like estat texture. I never got around to why the surface sounded that way until after I bought the nx4 dsd. The cayin was equal in resolution and power but different in tone and texture (some mild dip around 5-9khz, a mild boost in the bass and around 10Khz). I had few other devices at the time - cayin n3, a few phones - iphone 4s, iphone 6, oneplus 3, a few lumias but the surface was the one with such a unique tone. Every headphone I plugged in sounded similar to two of the staxes I heard - 元00 and SR009. One thing I noticed often was how "electrostatic" how the output of the surface was.
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It used to be fairly clean on full sized headphones but has some hiss with sensitive stuff. Like most general people, I started off with my laptop output (surface book). However, I find that quite a lot of people have not yet found enlightenment with regards to digital audio, and hence am sharing my subjective experiences and "predictions" of how it went for me. If I have to tell my audio gear journey as a whole, it'll take ages and I am not going to bother with that since it is barely of use to anyone. While I do correlate some of my audible experiences with measurements from audiosciencereview, innerfidelity etc, I don't fully believe all of them and have lots of disagreements. As such, I don't have any measuring gear, and all of these are done only with my ears and some correlation to existing measurements + Some math knowledge. I hope the experienced people go easy on me. Hi everyone, This is my first post on SBAF.