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Yup, if you got the 990 I would have said yeah personally. Newer beyers are thankfully pretty easy to drive.

For this price range I love recommending a apple USB c dongle DAC connected to any of the ~$100 amps like the magni 3+ which seems to have gotten a huge price drop at $69USD. More power than you need but Greta amp for the price. https://www.schiit.com/products/magni-plus

To play off of this for the 990 I would reccomend the magni over the heretic if you go this route. The 990 due to it being sharp sounds even sharper on op amp based amps I know the differences between the heretic and magni are subtle it's genuinely enough to avoid going with a heretic imo. Good Discrete power just sounds better on beyers.

Sony sscs5 is great I would also recommend the micca rb 42. I daily drive these speaker for the deal really powerful for their size and due to how good and compact they are I never felt the need to upgrade.

I would go for this. https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/beyerdynamic-tygr-300-r-headphones/16229992 Hard to reccomend a mic at the remaining budget https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/razer-seiren-mini-ultra-compact-usb-condenser-microphone-mercury/15428626?cmp=knc-s-71700000061237381&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAlcyuBhBnEiwAOGZ2Sx8WIv8dpCGDn3V7admFeK-YzqWQwZ7pO26mfVHiqFqQE2OFzb9VhBoC9S8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds But this exists and is not bad I would just use a stand with it which brings you over budget. And if your willing to get a stand and go even more over budget. This is better for the use case Audio-Technica 20 SERIES AT2005USB Cardioid Dynamic Microphone https://a.co/d/6H1BVkg

Their original intentions behind this i think had a lot of people fooled. But yeah they had a lot of people really buying into it. I saw so many people in various audio groups defending the shit out of it.but mostly cause they were invested cause they had equipment that supported the format.

I feel this so hard. Currently my daily driver is my pair of audio quest nighthawk carbons a notoriously flawed sounding pair of headphones. But I use it daily anyway regardless of flaws bauces it's original price was able to afford it the ability of being super damn comfortable. It also helps this is such a unique sounding headphone aiming for that speaker in an over dampened room sound which is super relaxing and refreshing vs my beyers who like to shout detail at me.

Try another set of headphones maybe if you can find a higher impedance one. But the DAC or amp maybe shoddy on it. Looking at a listing of it it seems to blast a lot about binaural audio and such. See if you can turn the effects off a lot of the time any added effects to audio make it sound terrible. The only solution I can think of is plug a laptop into it and listen to the piano through the laptop instead of that port.

+1 on the Maxwell these are the best sounding wireless headphones imo ATM. They sound solid. While not as good as a cheaper wired solution this is definitely a hifi set of cans

the tyygr is a retuned 990 32 ohm the treble is around where the 880 sits. the mid bass is calmed down and overall is just a more balanced sounding beyer with some fun where the 880 can sound flat and boring its like a nice middle ground between the 990 and 880. it's also 32 ohm so its easy to run off a modern motherboard. you also get that nice benefit of staging that beyers in this price range excel at

Absolutely fair we all have preferences and what we have on our desks is highly personal.

For your needs if your just gaming I would stick to just getting the tygr no bundle. And get a good cheap dynamic mic with an arm like a Samson q2u. The dt 900 is good but not that much better than the tygr specifically for gaming. For general sound quality it's definitely better but 100 euros more? Debatable

Lol neither am I . I use galaxy buds pro 2 for 8 hours a day at work. Most wireless charging earbuds don't wirelessly charge in the case though. It's the case itself that is wireless charging capable. The earbuds tend to charge through contact points on on them works the same way as airpods as well as xm5s and I'm pretty sure all wireless earbuds. Cause .asking contact to charge us the most efficient way to charge them allowing use to stretch the battery life in the case. I mean I dot. See much of an issue as to why Qi charging couldn't work aside from shit just being expensive to implement and it's not something a lot of people are begging for. The hardcore gamers out here are all converting to really good wired solutions anyway cause it's better for performance.blockquote widget

While it's not that great sounding compared to even other wireless options like the Maxwell the Astro a50 wireless + base station come with some sort of charging base when your not using it. I do wonder if there is some sort of issues presented with wireless charging. Maybe some sort of issue generated by the wireless energy transfer as to why we don't see it more often. But wireless headsets have only started sounding decent pretty recently so stuffing more and more features is expensive. Im just surprised we don't see more of the base station solutions. But personally my favorite solutions is howsteel series artist does it by providing removable rechargeable batteries allowing for better continuous gameplay and ensuring device longevity to an extent vs non removable batteries that will just die eventually

Hard to say I don't really have them here to compare. Sad to see they are that overpriced they should $200-250 each. I find the krks far too bassy personally for actual production work whether it be monitoring but are really in speaker for stuff like DJ'ng or listening to hip hop or EDM. The t5v are closer to the HS5 both aim for neutrality but the HS5 is notoriously unforgiving it will reveal anything wrong with the mix and is not the most enjoyable thing to listen to for enjoyment but if your doing production work it's great. The t5v to me strikes a nuce balance between the 2 it's revealing enough to use for production but it's also musical enough for enjoyment.

If you can afford the HS5 also co spider the Adam t5v should run about $400 as well as the JBL 306p mk2 both are great. I personally like the sound of the Adam t5v better as I find it more neutral.

Damn yeah that is hard. Since your running AMD are your motherboard drivers up to date?

I mean generations. Don't really matter if the speaker sounds good it sounds good. Im currently rocking headphones from the 80s and it sounds great. The thing I can reccomend within your budget is the iloud micro a lot. But if you value stereo imaging you'll probably prefer the KRK rockits 5. If you had a budget of $400 I could give more options but it seems inflation has caught how ith a few of my other reccomendations.

That's rough. I would try to contact audeze at this point maybe they have a fix as you may not be the only person experiencing this.

Lots of great new and used monitors to be found what is your budget?

Update your video drivers , download any audeze related driver/software needed. When you say hooked up to the dongle is it wired or wireless? Check your audio settings to make sure your at the highest quality output and make sure there are no audio enhancements turned on.

I made a edit to my comment I called it double blind originally. That was a mistake.

I'm a bit late to this thread. I've run blind tests for myself. Using my liquid spark DAC and Asgard 3 off my PC as a source and a friend to run it for me and note down we both agreed to use his pair of HD 800s. We ran 20 songs we were very familiar with and did 3 runs. Going into this I already knew I wasn't super sensitive to this already but wanted to do a more comprehensive test than before I was correct 8 out the 20 times on our first run , 11 out of 20 time on our second time, and 7 out of 20 time on my third run. My friend who definitely has better hearing than me (he's younger and both have gotten our ears tested fairly recently) barely did better. He got 10 out of right first run , 12 second run and 10 again third run. This was of course using Spotify premium and Tidal all music used was downloaded and settings were set to highest possible quality. We were both consistently guessing the majority of songs correctly when at the lowest quality settings for Spotify vs flac on tidal though. I will admit this testing method was probably flawed and I could have used my more expensive DAC but I wanted the sound to be as neutral as possible for the setup that I had regardless I think was good enough for me to come to the conclusion the Spotify premium is good enough for me.

The first questions one must ask when contemplating this is really does my current gear make noise? And is it loud enough. If you are hearing audible noise like static that isn't supposed to be there or something that sounds like coil whine then getting a external DAC may be a good idea. Is it loud enough?if your headphones sound quite when cranked then maybe an amp is needed. The thing is all of that is already built in to your motherboard , and in this case your keyboard. An DAC is not functional without an amp and anything that can convert digital to analogue is a DAC. Do my headphones sound correct? This is a hard one to explain. Headphones have sound signatures you may have seen charts with wavy lines called frequency response charts. Those are measurements letting us know what a machine hears and what we are expected to hear telling us how a headphone sounds in respect to each frequency. It tells you what it likes to put forward , and what it likes to hold back on. It can tell you if it's bass heavy or likes to show off mids more. There is a lot to this and I can go into higher detail but basically there are signs of underpowered headphones beyond just volume. If the bass sounds thinner than it should if the treble seems piercing and uncontrolled if there is just a lack of what the headphones are supposed to sound like there is potential for you to need a bigger amp or more likely your headphones are defective. upgrade headphones and find volume , noise , or it not sounding how its supposed to . But mainly focus on volume and noise. In your case if it sounds clean I wouldn't bother getting a amp/DAC.

xm5 has battery issues right now where they can potentially blow yup in your ears i would not trust any sony TWS at the moment until it's fixed and the next model comes out. i know the title say xm4 but this extends to the xm5 as well.