What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
if if you got Seinnheiser 800s, the QC 35s need to be there too.
I used them in the past and I've yet to find anything better for long term usage. If this is for wired only, I retract my suggestion.
No headset I know of, even $1500 headsets work without distortion at its loudest. (and I've used the Avaitor and the NFL headsets too)
Which either way should not be played, since too loud causes hearing damage anyway.
On that note, Bose doesn't need/care about Massdrops as they sell their products by the bucket loads to the masses looking to get 'high end (read: Bose)' sound.
I am yet to meet a single person who knows anything about sound quality and cares about it liking a single Bose product for the premium price they sell for.
Bose is like 'butter chicken' - those who doesn't know Indian food will rave about how good it tastes and how authentic the experience is.
One headset per brand, you can't have multiple headsets from the same company be on a flagship list, only one of them can be a flagship.
Since the community is audiophile, a flagship poll should stick to audiophile brands. Bose is strictly consumer these days, hasn't been an audiophile brand since the days of the 901 speakers and their wierd room correction box. No one's saying you can't have a poll about noise cancelling salaryman cans, but that's a different poll altogether.
Look at Amazon's top 10 list... none are on that list.
Audiophiles go for quality over price 9 times out of 10, but the fact is the human ear can only diffirentiate a level of Mhz for sound to begin with, going all high and mighty on "Bose isn't top of the line" means squat. Now if you have an issue with base quality, or treble, that's fine... but don't complain about a level of sound no human can hear.
Also, it's not your place to say that Bose QC35 headsets aren't Bose's flagship headset, because they are. So we either are talking about flagship headsets that are beyond the price range of the average person, or flagship overall. Because I can spend $300 on a good pair of headsets and get the same quality over a $1500 pair. In a lot of cases you are only paying for the name. The sooner you realize that the better... for marketing, and bias makes the headset sound better... when in reality there is no difference.
I have never run across a Bose headphone that attempted to recreate a realistic soundstage with any sort of transparency. Audiophiles are concerned with realistic sound reproduction; nothing more, nothing less.
Anything under and over is added features no one requires.
the other features such as sound stabilization, equalization, etc. all things software is designed to do, we should not pay extra for "ultra special" rare earth magnets.
How what, those in themselves are a scam. The ones they put in headsets aren't high quality.
So please, don't call yourself an audiophile when you are defending overpriced garbage.