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Koalich
Xduoo Poke II repair
Hi friends, I recently had a mishap with my Xduoo Poke II, that is, it fell out of my hands and now it turns on but the command buttons now work sometimes and sometimes not. I have written several times to Xduoo directly because it was with them that I bought this Dac and to find out what I can do about it but after two months I have not received a response. I live in Mexico City but I would like to know if anyone knows of a technical service in the US that could repair my Poke II and know if it would be worth it for me taking into account the cost of repair and the issue of shipping, or if it is better to think about buying a new portable Dac. Thanks and Cheers everybody.
Jan 20, 2025
captainveyron
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
TheDuffer
Right ear keeps cutting out
So I have a PC38x headset that I bought a few years back. I moved away from home for work, and left the headset there with my gaming PC. I used it maybe 2 or 3 times before I left, and it always had the problem of it cutting out in my right ear phone. It makes like a crackling noise like something is loose, and then cuts out the audio entirely. Sometimes it works for a few minutes, but inevitably cuts out on the right side again. I am wondering if there is a fix? Or could I be shipped a new one?
Jan 6, 2025
Frankbarone1
Please suggest headphones for me.
Please someone here help buy a headphone for my use case- listen mostly Indian music ( old and new Bollywood songs ) . play them on my iPhone. So need to be wireless. must be light and comfortable for small ears and 3-4 hours of listening. noise canceling is not important. budget is around $150. i am not audiophile by any means and do not understand much of the jargon. Just want something that sounds good and is comfortable on my ears while I work from home. thank you all.
Jan 3, 2025
Hauntednsk
E-MU Teak Repair - Any Experience?
Hello, I am wondering if anybody has any experience contacting E-MU support, sending them headphones for repair, or getting them back fixed. Can anybody share any experience? I have been emailing them for a while now, but nobody has responded. Thank you.
Dec 29, 2024
murphdc
pc38x still has audio coming through with the volume dial turned all the way down
Finally got my hands on the pc38x. I mostly wanted to try this headset because of all the good things i heard about it. Out of the box i wasn’t really impressed. My 50 dollar astros were just as loud if not louder. After setting up an EQ on dolby access i got them sounding a little better. But one thing that really bothers me is the volume dial on the headset. When i turn it all the way down there’s so much audio still coming through, like the headset is turned up 10-20%. Is this normal?
Dec 28, 2024
MrChiSox
My little room work in progress.
It's not done, I apologize for the mess. Health issues have put this on hold. It's a small room and I'm likely to sell off my KEF 104.2 loudspeakers and some other gear after surrendering the living room to my wife after her patience of 35 years. She deserved her own little sanctuary.
Dec 26, 2024
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Build/comfort: Build wise these are excellent. A step above my Sennheiser hd6xx and hd58x. They are solid with no play in anything and their steel feels thick and strong with the entire headphone having a wonderful texture to it. The earpads while unfortunately circular and barely fitting my ears in them, are more comfortable than my Sennheiser pads in every other way. Well, Sennheiser's velour is much softer but the other aspects of the pads and the foam make this a non issue for me. The headband has a thin padding to it and it conforms to the head very well without giving me any pressure points (unlike Sennheiser's 2 pad headband). The clamp is even and not too harsh out of the box even. When spreading the headphones, the action of pulling the cans apart is smooth, like addictingly smooth. It doesn't feel like Sennheiser's headbands where if you pull it any harder it may snap, these since they use pure steel, feel as if they could withstand bends a million times after the Sennheisers had broke. The heavy use of spring steel and heavy supple plastics makes the he4xx heavy but this never became a concern with comfort as they are so well sculpted to head shapes, Well done HIfiman.
Sound: These headphones are superbly dependent on their source and music files. I actually found myself enjoying these being played off of the built in headphone jack on the Google Pixel XL more than when they were played off of the Magni 3 and alc1220 since the pixel would make these less bright and bring the midrange forwards a small amount.. These headphones are bright. Let me get that out of the way. If you are treble sensitive at all like me, these will sound sibilant. Their treble is decently detailed and you do definitely get a sense of tactility out of it which is great and songs like "Jump" by Van Halen sound incredible on these. There is this separation to the instruments and the electric sound that is just heavenly and any song with quick stops and starts will sound excellent. Bass is present but definitely in a very low quantity. It has amazing detail to it and is utterly controlled and it sounds just amazing. Songs like "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by ZAYN and Taylor Swift sound objectionably better on these than my hd6xx or hd58x. That song just sounds so clean and the bass doesn't overpower anything ever. With that being said, I found that sticking a thumb at the bottom of each ear pad to increase airflow increased bass substantially. To the point of there actually being enjoyable bass imo all without losing its sense of control. Bummer. Now mids, mids sound absolutely anemic. There is mid range to be had but that is only if the track you were listening to was already mid centric. In almost all pieces of music, these headphones sound utterly dull and thin. In classical pieces in particular that use horned instruments of any kind, trumpets especially, they sound like they have no presence and sound like someone forgot that they needed trumpets in their song so they pulled out their cellphone and played the trumpet into a microphone. They just sound terrible in this type of orchestral.
One of their redeeming qualities in my opinion is how they sound with stringed instruments. All I have to say is wow. Any stringed instrument be it piano, violin, cello, guitar, bass, they all sound absolutely incredible. They have such a sense of tactility and presence and you can hear the decay of the entire string as it was meant to be heard. Bass guitars have a depth to them but they keep their control and you can hear the metallic twang through the entire strum and you get the entire timbre. It is truly incredible. I cannot praise these enough for their sound with stringed instruments.
Unfortunately for these, both the hd6xx and the 58x exist. When I was reviewing the 58x, I was completely satisfied with them until I would put on the 6xx and then I would notice that the 6xx were better in most respects. But I could switch back and forth and be happy with either and in some cases, like mobile lisenting, the 58x would win. I would switch between songs to see which songs didn't play well with those headphones and it was terribly difficult to find any. With the he4xx, I was able to notice that these sounded overall worse on most tracks without switching to other headphones. I would listen to a few tracks and be bored by their thinness and lack of bass in tracks that were supposed to be bass heavy and then I would be forced to switch to another headphone because the sibilance of the pair were extremely fatiguing. Sometimes I would get used to the sound signature and think, "Okay this sounds pretty good" but then I would switch to my 58x or 6xx expecting the songs to sound just as good. Which technically I guess they did, except in every case they sounded better. They just had more presence and they sounded full and warm with bass that was more present without being overbearing like the Hyperx Clouds.
To some this will be an excellent headphone and they do have the benefits of planars but they just lack any sense of musicality to make them pleasant to listen to. Their sibilance makes them pretty much unusable to me which is a shame as when they did shine, it was epic. I will probably be selling these and buying a pair of dekoni blue's or something that sounds more full and fun.
I can understand your sibilance comment, which seems to be your big deal breaker. I'm not quite feeling the same way about the 400is, but if I might be able to contour the sonics of his headphone to my perfect headphone, I'd have the treble response be smoother, more refined, and a tad bit more extended. That, and just a bit more bass extension and I'd be good to go. There's much more to sonic presentation than this, but these tweaks assume what's there already with the 400i, which I'm otherwise liking well enough.
I like planars. I've had lot of different loudspeakers, and Magnepans have been pretty much my go-to speaker for a very long time. Given that I haven't quite found the thing, yet, there are a number of places I'm venturing towards in my headphone journey. Tubed amplification with the HD6XXs (I've also pretty much lived exclusively with tubed electronics in my speakered systems), which gets widely mentioned as lifting these to another, better place. A Dark Voice 336SE, or Bottlehead Crack, or maybe a Schiit Valhalla 2? As I'm looking for a version of the 400i that's just that much more refined, maybe a pair of Hifiman Sundaras, or make that reach up further to a pair of Anandas?