Awesome time catching up with you at CanJam! Glad to see your review come out. Was wondering what your thoughts were gonna be after seeing your face light up when you put the Hekse’s on LMAO 🤣 Keep doin ya thing cutie 😉

nice new video!

The take away should be that you really need to run your digital music through a decent dac. Years ago I bought an inexpensive Schiit Modi dac and used it with my laptop. Very noticeable improvement and a must have for sure.

Which Cayin tube amp ? Thanks 🎶

Nice overview ! How's the Artemis compared to your other amps ?

Did you try the Arya Organic on the Nitsch Piety? On mine, I find the synergy is surprisingly good.

It has been a while. Eventh I’ve stopped chasing dragons but I can relate to your more favorable take on 1Kse. Always liked them but they were overpriced imho. With lowered asking price, it still has a place in today’s world of headphones. 👍🏻✌🏻

Good thumbnail bait

Have you heard the he1000 stealth? How similar to the 1000SE ? 👀

I got the HE1000se for 1699$ is the latest sale, at that price the entire Arya line is basically obsolete.

Thumbnail has the names on the wrong units? 😅

He1000se best bang for buck in the game hands down 🔥✊

After countless reviews I've yet to hear the sound stage is grander on the organic vs. the hek. I own the organic and find the bass very pleasing but the sibilance kills me even on an r2r and v281. Also I find the sound stage quite close and not too far off the Arya stealth.

🩺Wave Theory listening with his full attention to the ZMF Caldera 🩺

Great review. Detailed enough, yet straight to the point! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about amplifiers...

Seems like you just need to get a Susvara and call it a day😂

Great video, i recently upgraded to the HEKSE from the Organic myself and i agree with your thoughts and opinions fully, you don’t post much content but everything you do post is very accurate and very much appreciated my friend.

Everyone should own a Hifiman, essential phones imo. That's a lot of amps.

Great video, keep em coming!!

Looks like your setup is not that much changed from the comparison of amps.

I'm in the hype train for modhouse tungsten double sided, the only doubt is if I should get the hekse, even more now that is priced $1699

Hey buddy I missed your videos, great job thanks for sharing. I also got hekse, could not pass that deal and what you get for your money it's just an awesome headphone. I upgraded my rca and other stuff and you can really hear the difference. Thanks again cheers

I have different questions: 1. What desk is it? 2. Depth of the desk? Thanks

HE1000 Stealth, only slightly better than Arya Stealth (which are 2 times cheaper), flat and rather dull. Arya Organic much more fun, but requires a more thoughtful pair, with a not bright source. For example R2R DAC like Denafrips Ares and class A amplifier, like Aune S17 pro

Shame we couldnt get to the solutions of the conflict. Insisting on who are the good guys is irrelevant .

How does the Holo May have better jitter performance than Chord Dave despite being R2R?

I love that you used the languages of the country of the products. That is respect. 🫡

What a great video. You are the best in the biz

Hi, I bought a pair of Elites used last month. Right now I have a used Denafrips Ares 2 on its way to me. Do you have any amps to recommend that might pair well with those two things? Thanks.

This is such an incredibly useful video. I was looking at buying a used Ares 2, and this solidified my decision to purchase it. Really well done, seriously. Thank you.

Do 192kHz-rated toslink cable sound different than a lower-speced one when the music is at 44.1kHz? I have a mildly fancy toslink cable ($50) and it absolutely sounded different than a generic 2.2 OD one.

I have the woo audio wa3 perfectly match with my hd600

I just discovered these are called semi-inear, I always called them sperm buds

even if speakers and headphones have high THD, it is possible to hear the difference between a good and bad DAC even if their THD is less than 0.001 %.

Thankfully my 50$ USB Dongle neither has Jitter, nor Random RF Noise, nor correlated RF noise issues and i run it with an 100yen USB Cable i got from Lawson because its longer than the one i got with the Dongle. Saves me a whole lot of money

Hi! Did you get to try out the Kinki Audio amp with your set up? Or did you keep the Hegel? Would like to know your impressions. Thanks

Before buying the RME my feeling was that the Bifrost 2/64 may sound better but that with the range of settings the RME offered if I could not achieve a sound I loved it would be my fault ; Ironically I like it so much that I have been listening to it "As it came out of the box" My criteria for choosing all my components though are different to most people , call it neutral quality , as far as posible the only influence I want to hear are in my choice of valves. Another great video ,so new subscriber. Thanks . PS I did finally get to the sound I have strived for.

I agree!!! I use on all my Amps and only my badass Accuphase destroyer 😮 has slight slight hum not no more 😊 P.S. its the quality of electric or bad ground have your 200watt breaker box checked out sometimes netural bar screws come lose !

Three years later and I still find your DAC roundup relevant. Great job!

Klipsch have always sounded "metallic" to me. The BR03s are more neutral and "smoother". They image larger and wider, and are more forward than my MBL 323s, and far more sensitive. The Triangles do vocals, especially female, extremely well. Same with Jazz.

Buy the Atom 2 and profit

Woo Audio 22 better. Cayen has a problem with the earth (grounding)in the system!, that is why people have hummmmmmmmm...

You think you’re qualified to be an audio reviewer? You’ve spent several hundreds of dollars on components, & you’re using $5 lamp cord for spkr wires🥸. GO AWAY💩.

15:08 other options: 1) Amps & Sound 2) Decware, 3) Donald North Audio, 4) Auris, 5) ZMF Pendant

These Antal 40th Ann in Santos Rosewood look and sound spectacular! Even with 92 dB and 8 ohms, they do require a quantity of high current to open up. A perfect pairing with Triangle speakers I found is Electrocompaniet electronics. On many shows I have heard Triangle speakers so far, they were using mostly EC amps/preamps to drive them. I fell in love so much in that combo, that I bought a pair of Antal 40th in Blond Sycamore finish and Electrocompaniet ECI-6DX mkII amplifier = Jackpot! They play all kinds of music, even classical and rock crescendos with ease, you just feed them with a powerful amp and a good source. Happy listening!

ALL of the stuff he's talking about: jitter, RF noise, intermodulation distortion, can be measured, and measured to vanishingly small levels. DAC noise-floor modulation can be measured, and the DAVE is beaten by a cheapo Topping, largely because the DAVE's inherent noise floor is frankly mediocre (but still good enough that it's unlikely anyone would notice). If you want to sell Luxury Audio products with fancy enclosures and 5-figure pricetags, then that's fine. But don't spout pseudo-scientific wibble in an attempt to justify it. You're selling Luxury to people who want to belong to the club of People Who Spend A Lot, and that's all you're doing. Patek Philipe doesn't try to pretend their eye-wateringly expensive watches keep better time than a Casio because they know that's not the reason people buy them. Why do Luxury Audio makers dance around making fools of themselves by pretending otherwise?

Who the fuck says d-a-c? Bro your trying way too hard lol