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Drop + THX Panda headphones Listening Day
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keyboard_arrow_downEvshrug
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Jan 4, 2020
Waaaaaait a minute. January 16 is the first day I’ll be traveling to LA for NAMM. It would be super excellent if Drop was attending NAMM as well, maybe to see if they could do distribution and marketing for any of the hundreds of audio companies that will be there, and maybe, just maybe, I could get some ears-on time 😁
Evshrug
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Jan 4, 2020
Evshrug NVM, San Francisco is about 6 hours away. It would be excellent if one or two of your reps was heading to Anaheim during any of the days of NAMM, but I fully realize that would be a trip for them too. Still! It’s tantalizingly close!
Sparka
2
Jan 2, 2020
Awesome. Zeos mentioned his first experience with the THX AAA was a small chip implementation with huge, clear sound. Makes total sense to slam that technology on some wireless cans. Will be exciting to hear the results from those who get to attend the "listening." I really support Drop in this effort. This wireless headset would check off some boxes non have to this point for me. I wish I could go!
Evshrug
3261
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Jan 4, 2020
SparkaMy Audeze Möbius ticks many of the same boxes, with hi res Bluetooth and a high-fi Planar driver, but these Pandas should have longer battery life, lighter weight, and less background hiss. Hopefully they have better sub-bass extension than the two Oppo PM3 I used to own.
Kulpa
54
Jan 2, 2020
Hello,
can you tell us the Stat‘s from the Headphone or is a secret?Is it with cabel or Bluethooth?
medu5a
9
Jan 3, 2020
KulpaGo see the other post about this headphone that came out in December. It is a Bluetooth headphone that can be plugged in passively as well. It has no DSP correction. It will support all important Bluetooth codecs. It will have only passive isolation that (they say) is on par with well fitting in-ears - it will not have ANC.
Evshrug
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Jan 2, 2020
Glad to see the listening day, that is a great idea! I hope that the people who do happen to live in California, and can make it through the traffic, leave some impressions in here.
Tsiklon
139
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Jan 1, 2020
I’m really looking forward to these. I’m based in the UK so can’t make the event. Can you say anything more about the tuning than you’ve already said?
Evshrug
3261
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Jan 2, 2020
Tsiklon I’m too far away to listen as well, but you’re further away still! Maybe someday we’ll figure out what these sound like ;-)
Artismo
460
Jan 1, 2020
Right, effing, on. Can’t be there in person, but definitely have my support. Looking forward to hearing impressions. 👍🏻
Massguru
1
Jan 1, 2020
Hello.
These headphones will be dedicated to your DROP + THX AAA ™ 789 LINEAR AMPLIFIER amplifier?
These headphones will be dedicated to your DROP + THX AAA ™ 789 LINEAR AMPLIFIER amplifier?
medu5a
9
Jan 4, 2020
They do add microphones and support to make phone calls (use them as a headset) as far as I know (:
Evshrug
3261
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Jan 5, 2020
Hey @medu5a! You actually have the acronym expanded correctly, and your post makes sense :-)
I had originally typed out Digital signal processor, and some other stuff, that got lost when my app crashed. So I wrote a shorter version. A DSP is essentially a little computer part, like a CPU or GPU. Some companies even used to refer to DACs as a DSP, including Theta which was the precursor company for Schiit audio. DSPs can be used for many things, and not all manufactures are consistent in how they use the term 😅
What you say about Bose is true, their whole speaker line Is famous for using a proprietary DSP to make their paper transducers (speaker cones) sound like full range transducers and compensate for and undesirable native frequency response. Bose (and Sony, others) also uses a DSP in their active noise canceling headphones when listening to ambient noise and produce an opposite tone to cancel it out with minimal lag. I love to use DSPs that can generate a virtual Headphone surround sound (Binaural mix). So, as you can see, DSPs are used for all kinds of things. I personally think that the final end result matters more than how you get there, but if a transducer for example it has to be boosted to its limits to get a neutral treble or something like that, then you might not have enough headroom to keep it sounding natural and clean.
If the Panda is similar to the Oppo PM3, then they don’t have to correct very much to get a very great sounding headphone. They also may be able to acoustically improve the subbass without DSP, which is something I always wanted more out of my PM3. And maybe “I” am using DSP wrong, but there needs to be some little computer to decode the different Bluetooth transmission codecs and such.
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