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Finally hearing QUALITY bass + amps make a difference (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by OkRazzmatazz7121@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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I've always liked bass-tilted headphones, the Denon AH-D5200 being my favourite pair.

But only in the last few days have I heard great QUALITY bass. I shifted from Spotify to Qobuz, and upgraded from the Topping DX3 Pro to the Topping A30 Pro.

The dynamic swings are so much more dramatic, and the bass is so much more textured. It's not just a wall of bass anymore, like it has a sense of space now.

While the change in streaming service has no doubt played a part in this, I am now firmly in the camp of "different amps/dacs make a difference". It must have something to do with voltage swings. And don't tell me the volume isn't matched, because it is, I measured it with a mic.

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[–] solid12345@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I went back to CDs for critical listening because Spotify and Qobuz is mostly using garbage loudness-war era masters. That makes more of a difference to me than codec compression.