Hi, are the DT990 in-stock

You may want to test out the T90 as well

There are 2 issues you are facing assuming you do have a really good source (FLAC, ALAC etc) in the first place.

The FiiO E7 at 16bits/48kHz is one and the Beyerdynamic DT770 being closed is another.

Is your Beyerdynamic DT770 the 250ohm version

Yeah it's the 250ohm version.

Weird, I plugged the beyer directly to the iphone5, I feel the sound is much better than using the fiio E7 with laptop running the same song.

not a stand alone one....
but if you connect the fiio e07k to the e09k the fomer becomes a DAC.....
but both are still DAC + amp....

consider a few amp and dac before i bought that.... (nwavguy 02, magni modi, hifiman ef 5 ef 2a......except for the first one the rest are not available on local market)
cause wanted something portable and desktop which can connect headphone and my speaker
and not that expensive below RM1k for both
and available in Japan
also with not too bad of a review

But you're still bypassing the internal amp irregardless and that matters when you're pairing it with a seperate amp.

Although the products you listed above are not available locally, that doesn't mean you should only opt for locally available products only (they are cheaper sometimes to buy it direct from the international market and shipped it here). Just make sure the voltage specifications are correct and you're good to go

oh right..
forgot about voltage specs...
that's a major problem.....
if it doesnt match..... I'll need to get something like a transformer.....

well then ..... back to old topic

880 or 990....

Just got my Fiio E09K + E17 combo today and played with my Shure 1440s..

First time listening to DAC sound and boy its damn sweet!

now tempted to get my hands on a DT990 250ohm, coz all i have are 32ohm ones

most has the 230V variations

burning in my DT880 pro 250ohm + Govibe Peak~

This post has been edited by wxiang15: Aug 6 2013, 02:52 PM

Demo-ing....over Hari Raya.... T1...

El Hefe's Getting A Taste of T1

hehe, welcome to the Beyer club

Great Beyerdynamic Club~

i'm a beyer loyalist, most my headphones are from beyer, even had xp1 and xp3

my used to have and now have:
dt770 250 ohm - used to
xp1 - used to
xp3 - used to
custom one pro - have
dt440 - used to

T1 - tried before

For DT770 250 ohm, Magni/Modi or O2+ODAC?

The T1 is considered a semi open or open cans?

I wonder.. would it be worth it to save up for a pair of TOTL headphone such as the T1?

What amp should be capable of driving it?

How much are we looking at total?

http://asia-pacific-india.beyerdynamic.com...easure/t-1.html


most people would invest in dac/amp in at least equal, if not greater than the headphone's value which by itself is about 4-5k itself iinm? so maybe about 10k or so in total?
never really look into amps that can drive the T1 myself since i wasn't that interested in it as i still prefer full open cans. however general consensus is that most prefer tube amps or at least warm signature solid states to drive their T1's

I see I see thanks for your opinion bro

I am currently just a mid-fier with mid-fi level rig.

Probably in the future, id wanna invest more in this, hopefully with an increasing buying power

Its either the T1 or HD800.. but then the dac/amp thing is another factor to consider

was checking out the Schiit Bifrost and Valhalla, pricing

oooh the hd800 is yet another beast, people can easily invest double or even triple the price of the can itself because the hd800 is among the only can i know that does this "what you feed in is what you get", meaning the better the amp, the better the headphone excels. oh and it's a full open can too

It depends on how much you want to spend really as there are different "flavours" as to how people want their HD800/T1 to sound. Of course tube amps have been popular for the both of them and especially those models that are output transformer-less such as Woo Audio WA2 or Decware CSP2+ (most good amps, you are likely to buy it overseas and have them ship it here though).

Also, don't disregard solid state amps as "most" of them are actually quite decent in terms of their quality once you reached a certain level and models such as Schiit Mjolnir, Bryston BHA-1, Burson Soloist/Conductor are pretty good as well.

Funny thing I used to own the T1 last year and didn't enjoy the high's reproduction as I found it rather harsh (in my opinion) and have numerous changes over time until now

Wow~ truly Beyer loyalist