• Why use a PMP instead of a phone? >better DAC/AMP >more output power so it can drive higher impedance headphones >smaller sizes than phones for activities like exercise >physical buttons >headphone jacks >some people can't use smartphone at work/use dumbphones
• How to request advice: >Budget >Source (phone or PMPs) >Location >Kind (in-ears or earbuds) >Sound Signature (or genres you like, important!) >Past gear and your thoughts on them (important!)
/iemg/ Hall of Fame: • [Insert meme here] • CCA CRA (V with good treble extension/VK4 spiritual successor) • TIn T3 Plus (Mild V) • Etymotic ER2SE/XR ("Reference" Neutral/Bass boosted neutral) • Moondrop KATO (Bass-boosted neutral) • Moondrop quarks (katos but cheap and small) • Tanchjim Tanya (better quarks with more bass) • Tanchjim Hana 2021 (Mini-Oxygen with more bass) • Tanchjim Oxygen (Mild V) • Moondrop Blessing 2/Dusk (Neutral/Bassbosted neutral) • [The one that you are using]
/pmp/ Hall of Fame: • Your phone • Hiby R3 Pro / Pro Saber • Sony NWA-55 + Mr Walkman mod • Fiio M11+
/USB/BT DAC/ Hall of Fame: • Tempotec Sonata HD Pro • e1da 9038s/d • Qudelix 5K • CX-Pro Audio 31993
Hey guys do we want to have approximate prices next to things in the HoF? I know prices change and there's sales and all, but it's always relatively small changes and it'd be neat to know whether a given model will be closer to 20 or 200 without opening store pages for all of them.
Tyler Foster
For me it's Dunu Titan S
Chase Morris
I second this, just put up "price on release" disclaimer and add prices.
Or even just round to the nearest $50 to make rough price brackets.
Lucas Campbell
>Reminder that only FR matters If that's what he believes, why does he have a technicality score in addition to his tonality score?
John Young
nah
Hudson Richardson
""""technicalities"""" are just FR tricks
Nathaniel Cooper
Yet even if I EQ a bad technicalities IEM to be the same as a good technicalities one, it sounds tonally the same but transients might sound blurred or it might need to be turned louder to get the same perceived clarity.
I know I am a useless pleb, but what are the best bluetooth earbuds I can purchase
Adam Robinson
LGR is based
Nicholas Barnes
Some Galaxy Buds, some AirPods Pro, or some Sony WF1000XMsomething.
Brody Murphy
xiaomi airdots for 10$
Nathan Wilson
I am here to warn you guys against any Fiio device that uses a side scroll wheel for volume control. They quickly break. On my M11 I have to attempt to use the volume wheel to bring up the volume popup on the touch screen then use the touchscreen. Cursory internet search shows other people have the same problem.
Samuel Moore
chinked
Chase Ortiz
what do you think of my EQ of the CCA CRA? im new at this.
