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
I have since bought a Jotunheim w/balanced DAC upgrade, Modi 2 Uber, SYS, Mani, and a Topping D10 that I will be playing around with to figure out if it actually sounds better than RCA cables with 1/4" TRS adapters running through my current Focusrite Scarlet 6i6.
I've heard balanced can actually sound worse, but I am going to figure out what sounds best in my space. Every system is different.
Nowadays, after selling most of his stuff, he uses a cheap kz zsr and an audeze lcd-xc. He sticks to spotify premium, leaving his massive lossless collection of music to (virtual) dust.
When I asked why, he told me he couldn't hear the difference between his lossless files from Spotify's extreme setting, upgraded cables don't do a thing for him, and though he can hear differences in various 'phones, he says the sound upgrade from mid-fi to high-end headphones are not worth the price difference to him (though I guess the upgrade from chi-fi IEMs to high-end planar cups are worth keeping both).
While I patiently await the arrival of his hand-me-downs (according to him, a tube amp, a high-end senn, a mid-range fostex, and several doodads), I do hope my ears will be as satisfied as his.