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My mac sounds better than my Magni 3+ Heresy (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by No_Walrus_7363@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community

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After a week of trying my new LCD X plugged into a Magni, I was getting mixed results. Some songs sounded great, but others sounded a little off on their balance, separation and clarity.

I ordered a cheap adapter on Amazon and plugged my LCD X into the headphone jack of my MacBook Pro 2022. Much to my surprise the sound is night and day, the depth, separation and clarity are suddenly on par with what I was expecting from my LCD X.

Why would this be the case?

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[–] InterestingButt0n@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you have to be careful doing comparisons because it's actually pretty difficult to volume match and we basically can only recall the general tone/pitch of an audio sample and even then it's only in any sort of detail for like 12 seconds.

it's unlikely it sounds worse or better but the magni 3 can absolutely handle almost any eq you can dream of on the audezae while the macbook cannot.

[–] GratuitousAlgorithm@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Is it 12 seconds? I read it was even shorter than that.