"Spence said the swap feature will set the Ace headphones apart from the competition and prod people to buy more Sonos devices." Immediately less interested. I feel like they keep focusing on the compatibility with other Sonos products, rather than the merits of the device itself. I feel like...

Agreed... I own zero other sonos or apple products, so it's all down to the ANC, comfort, and sound quality

I'm in the market for a new high end ANC focused set, I was about the buy the XM5 but held off since I heard there will be a new model this year. I wonder how this will stack up.

Mainly buy from Amazon since I get 5% back and quick delivery, but I just made my first aliexpress purchase today since I could not find the ARTTI T10s, another planar set I really wanted to try, on amazon. Heard the customer service for ali is terrible but w/ amazon it's amazing, so I mainly...

Funny you mentioned the T10s, I could not find where to buy one outside of aliexpress, which I am hesitant to use since it keeps converting all my purchases into Euros and the exchange rate means I end up paying more than what is advertised. Weirdly, I added it to my cart again today and it...

Sorry, meant the kiwi ears melody and F1 pro

I actually had that on my list for ~$100 IEMs lol, heard good things. Was looking at that alongside the Hidizs MP145 which is $35-ish more and the kiwi ears, ended up going with the kiwi ears since it was the cheapest of the 3... $99.99 MSRP for the F1 pro just barely make the cut off lol. I...

Thanks for the replies, I guess if I'm doing it anyway might as well get some writing practice in. Here are the IEMs on deck for me, in no particular order: 1. TRUTHEAR x Crinacle Zero: RED 2. Kiwi Ears Melody 3. SIMGOT EW200 4. TANGZU Wan’er S.G 5. Moondrop CHU II 6. KZ ZVX 7. QKZ x HBB 8...

Long story short I was drunk and ordered 10 highly rated <100$ chi-fi IEMs (long story). I don't intend to return them, so I was planning on opening one every few days and cataloguing my thoughts as I went for my own purposes. I have 0 experience or expertise and the review would be purposefully...

Finally spent some quality time with the H5 after getting over a cold. Here's my illiterate baby take: tl;dr: I like the H5, sounds better to me than the hip-dac3, but I get why people might like the hip-dac more than me. So briefly some history, my first dac/amp was the fiio KA5. I liked...

You might be the first person I've seen who has a negative opinion about the Mojo 2. There really is no such thing as a universal consensus in the world of hifi.😂 In other news My H5 just came in. Gonna do some testing this weekend.

Thanks for the response. I guess at the end of the day I should just do some A/B testing. I'll order the H5 sometime and compare it to the hip 3. I've been eyeing the Chord, but I didn't want to spend so much out the gate when I know so little about about this stuff.

Curious, what about Burr Brown chips do you not like? I've read some that love it some that hate it, I guess it's a personal preference? I heard the BB are very warm sounding, figured it would balance my arya stealths a bit, but tbf I don't have much to compare it to other than a Fiio KA5. I'm...

Wondering this too. I have a hip dac 3, but was thinking of upgrading to something with more juice lately. The ability to work as a DAP is a cool bonus.