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Quite interesting, would love some measurements. I might be in the market for some desktop speakers soon, so the more options the better(currently using JBL308p on stands behind and to the sides of my desk but I'm renovating and probably won't have space for that anymore). The price seems fine...

Honestly the $300 extra is worth it just for how much better it looks than Noire X. Looks good, seems like it sounds good, measures good enough where you probably need nothing more than maybe some tuning for taste. I like it. I'm not looking for a hew pair of headphones right now... but when I...

Depends on how the presets work, since all headphone outputs are technically one output - so if you can set two presets for same output with different EQs that would work(though I'd need three in total for speakers EQ for RCA out, headphones EQ for one front panel jack, and IEMs with EQ off for...

that sounds great, so looks like there's good chance DX5 II will be able to do the same for different outputs if it also had separate presets for the different headphone outputs(even just two for balanced/unbalanced) that would be ideal, but I'm assuming not physically possible

I'm curious about it as well, if it has that ability(or at least multiple presets for the EQ that are somewhat easy to switch along with the output) I'd actually consider getting one. I use multiple DACs on my PC specifically so I can have automated EQ switching for different devices, and this...

Surprised we got this first instead of an open back E3 that I was kinda expecting. Unfortunately, glued pads in a $1k headphone make it a non-starter for me.

Thanks for the great photos. Man, what a beautiful piece of kit. They actually managed to improve the original design.

Interesting, but seems they're intended to be sold exclusively with their(rather expensive) 9320A controller. I wonder how well that Aural ID technology that's supposed to generate your own personal HRTF from 360 videos of your head and torso can actually work in practice.

so why is there still a significant 7-8k peak? it's not like that's a crucial area to monitor during a live performance and if you raise levels overall enough it will start becoming an issue. It's still there on measurements from other couplers, just shifted, so it doesn't seem to be measurement...

If nothing else I certainly like the aesthetic, the prism woofer with the inverted surround looks great. Midwoofer molded into the tweeter waveguide to bring them closer together reminds me of Perlisten, though it's a more traditional design here. I wonder what the pricing is going to be on...

I have the EU spec apple dongle which is the same output voltage as I understand, and it's really not enough for some of IEMs I tried it with, so I'd like to see more power. I do actually have a use case for multiple cheap DACs like this - it makes switching between different types of devices...

I don't put much stock in their numerical ratings as they include a bunch of factors that are almost always irrelevant for me. But some of their specific remarks are rather disappointing, and they have a handy graph tool: I'd still like to hear them, but I don't think I'd enjoy them.

Caught my eye and I was able to find this on google image search, from a Stereoplay review.

oh yeah, that's not a blind buy that's for sure, but doesn't kill my interest either definitely waiting for reviews ...Munich isn't that far, I really should go next year

I think we can probably expect a non-signature edition after that(well unless the signature edition sells so poorly they have trouble moving all the copies) with hopefully distribution beyond Drop. The launch window is a bit unfortunate as it's competing with the new Sennheiser and Focal releases.