Refusal to take responsibility.
Hi, Just thought I would make a note here of your handling of my issues. I ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones and then earlier today recieved the package. I drive to go and get it, as I like in the UK I had to pay import tax and handling fees. These total £47.92. The breakdown being £35.92 in tax and £12 in fees. These taxes were calculated of the shipping label of the box, which marked the shipment as the 6xx headphones of $199 value. Before leaving the parcel depot, I open the box to find a $35 lord of the rings mousepad. So now the problem is not only do I not have the headphones, but you have marked the shipment wrong so I have paid £47.92 fees for the handling of the mousepad. Which would have acrued £0 of fees if marked correctly as it is under £135. I go back to the desk but as I have already paid the fees I am unable to reject the shipment, but as the box said 6xx, there was no way for me to know before opening it. I contact support and they offer me a replacement, which...
Jan 17, 2025
Though honestly, I don't hear any difference compared with my humble laptop audio jack, I'm testing with HD600, HD6XX and HD58X and no, it doesn't do any magic, specially for the HD6XX which is the headphone I was disappointed with. The HD58X still it's the king of fun, HD600 humble but enjoyable and HD6XX still super dark and MEH. And I don't perceive extra detail or something, it seems to be the same. And YES, I'm listening to FLAC's, with Foobar with no WASAPI.
Snake oil? I don't know, I'll give it a lot of use and maybe I'll edit this review later, but overall I'm not impressed, at least it looks good in my desk.
Anyway, like I said before, it works, it produces sound, setup it's really easy. It has a lot of power, at my normal listening volume, I only use up to 9 o'clock at most (or 1/4 of the whole scale). I have a few minor complains though, that's why I only giving it 4 stars: First, the caps that came on my unit are transparent, I was expecting the red ones like in the pictures, I know they're in the back, but still. Second and most importantly, the USB with the driver and manual came DOA, fortunately you can download them from the web but you should have to have the whole package ready to use at once, actually the "USB" it's like half USB, maybe some chip is inside of it but the circuit board it's exposed, the main USB contacts have clear signs of heavy use, and probably they're not doing effective contact and that's why it doesn't work. COME ON Aune, You couldn't include a pristine USB in your $ 200 DAC/Amp?
EDIT: It's plug and play in Linux.
" the USB with the driver and manual came DOA" Same for me, I bought mine X1s from a different source and it just doesn't work.
" It's plug and play in Linux " It's the same on Windows 10.