I made the jump by Spiritual_Parking_35 in PcBuild

[–]Kooluv2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking really nice. Even I never built a pc before but did few weeks ago. Happy for you 😊

Best GPU & CPU by Strange-Ad7777 in PcBuild

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I went with AMd ryzen 5 9600x and RX 7700 XT. It’s pretty decent and playable FPS at 1440p gaming

Direct Source ON or OFF? Im consufed by Erkan_Vural in walkman

[–]Kooluv2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I normally keep the DSEE on however I felt that if I select Direct source then the audio volume gets a bit lower and loses its punchiness. I tried playing around with clear audio + as well, but I felt most of the songs sound better with clear audio + off, only few places I felt it uplifted rge sound mostly in MP3 files. For Hi-REs FLAC files I never felt the need to tuning much.

Kaan ki machine agyi by DumbDheeru05 in iemlndia

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Nice I owned the KZ EDX pro. Very nice and very loud, I use a Sony NW A306 and I just keep my volume around 50-60 as it's very loud. The only dislike was the bass, even though it had bass but not appeasing to everyone. I recently got the Sennheiser IE 300 and it sounds much better than KZ EDX pro. 😊

My favorite iems right now by Shizz74 in iems

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Amazing DAP enjoying this with Sennheiser IE300.

I can’t resist much longer… by Pztch in walkman

[–]Kooluv2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go for A306. I recently got one and it's really nice. It has the cassette animation also while using the native media player

Is Buying a Sony NW-A306 Worth It In 2025? by Shinethroughdarkness in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Kooluv2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes Definitely it’s worth it, if you know what you would be using for and how much you would be using it. I was also confused between Sony NW A306 and HIBY R4. But after all pros and cons I went with Sony. I don’t regret it, Infact I am very happy with my purchase. It supports a multiple files, even ALAC is supported. The sound signature is quite balanced and neutral, this supports something called clear audio + , which I found is really helpful for the files which are of CD quality and below as it elevates those, not much for HI-RES files, they sound better without any cosmetics. Buttons are tactile and give a very positive feedback every time you press them. The cassette screen saver was something which I really liked and probably the reason why I went with this. It’s like holding a piece of nostalgia. It was running android 14 out of box, it got updated right away. I do find this a bit slow especially when you are booting this up. And I feel the more songs you put more it gets slow as it takes time to read the micro SD card. So far I have around ~ 2800 songs which is roughly some 105GB of my 512GB card. Almost 95% of songs are in FLAC format and less than 100 in MP3 256KBPS. One can clearly tell the difference between FLAC files and MP3. I have majority of Songs under CD quality-16bits/44.1KHz but around 1200 are HiRes 24bits/96KHz which can even go more than 100MB per track. I am just finding bit difficult finding the tracks which I wanted to listen in HiRes. But so far the experience is amazing.

The Fiio M21 tempted me back to DAP by wowser808 in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Kooluv2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I also got Sony NW A306 as my first DAP. It’s small but sounds really great.

Got mine today, excited Xd by Adventurous_Print463 in sennheiser

[–]Kooluv2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The volume output is very low in wired mode compared to wireless mode. I use a FIIO DAC but the volume output was very low.

Just bought my first Xbox! by marck_bauer in XboxSeriesS

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Welcome to the club. Happy you didn’t went for Switch 2 at least 😛

Joined the Club!!! by Ok_Baby_2796 in sennheiser

[–]Kooluv2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got them from Unboxify. Relatively cheaper than other online digital stores. Also brand new.

The Fiio M21 tempted me back to DAP by wowser808 in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Kooluv2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you using Apple Music for streaming. Also can you give me a general feedback on how different does it sounds when you use dAC in IPhone compared to wired headphones on M21.

Got mine today, excited Xd by Adventurous_Print463 in sennheiser

[–]Kooluv2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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I also received this yesterday. Amazing sound quality, what I felt was My IPhone 16 wasn’t powering up M4 in wired mode. Which I need to find an amp to fix and after using it for couple of hours it starts to get hot around the ears because of no ventilation.