Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

hyperseven · 16 Oct 2016 at 18:36

Brizzles said:
1st kit i've done in years tbh

Full colour, clear instruction booklet.
All pieces good quality, no rough edges or mis-shapes.
No missing pieces

Couldn't find a fault with it.

was it from Aliexpress? If so would you mind telling me which shop ?

really tempted to drop £90 on the Super Star Destroyer

Deleted member 66701 · 16 Oct 2016 at 18:43

Some light reading material.

neil_g · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:09

Tunney said:
But there hasn't been a need in the past.

Fiio and the like have been doing them for years, I used one with my 4s and old ipad both with 30pin.

Apple's official Lightning -> 3.5mm adaptor contains a DAC and costs £9. I'm sure others can do it better/cheaper.

A dac that small and cheap is going to be nasty. Apple can do it as they make the connection and don't have to pay for licencing. Apple charge 3rd parties $4 PER lightening connector manufactured in licencing fees.

Brizzles · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:19

hyperseven said:
was it from Aliexpress? If so would you mind telling me which shop ?

really tempted to drop £90 on the Super Star Destroyer

Got Wall-E from GearBest .

I'm also tempted by the AliExpress stuff, the Porsche 911 ( £65 versus £250 UK price ) would keep me busy for a few hours ( weeks !! ) .

dowie · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:27

easyrider said:
The apple headphones are Cack

Fact

The internal DAC on the iphone is Cack

Fact

The only way is some decent phones and and an external DAC

I have an iphone 6

sounds more like you're a bit of a sucker for audiophile marketing

mrk · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:40

neil_g said:
Fiio and the like have been doing them for years, I used one with my 4s and old ipad both with 30pin.

A dac that small and cheap is going to be nasty. Apple can do it as they make the connection and don't have to pay for licencing. Apple charge 3rd parties $4 PER lightening connector manufactured in licencing fees.

No it won't.

This is 2016, there are plenty of cheap DACs out there that do a perfect job of producing clear highs and lows for decent quality earphones to work with

neil_g · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:45

mrk said:
No it won't.

This is 2016, there are plenty of cheap DACs out there that do a perfect job of producing clear highs and lows for decent quality earphones to work with

Don't get me wrong there are some good budget dacs, I have a SMSL SD793-II that was about £35-40 and I think it's excellent.

But it's much much bigger and powered.

mrk · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:51

Ultimately wireless is the way to go. Since I started using the Bienna QY8 full time on my work commutes and sold the Sennheiser IE80, I've been thoroughly enjoying the convenience they offer without sacrificing audio quality. I got them for free, but they retail at under £30. Bluetooth earphones have come a very long way, and prove that cheap isn't always bad any more.

I don't know how much this applies to iPhones though,since no Apple device supports aptX over Bluetooth, so perhaps wired is better for them :/

neil_g · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:55

Bluetooth is still horribly compressed as far as I know.

mrk · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:02

neil_g said:
Bluetooth is still horribly compressed as far as I know.

Standard SBC bluetooth is, yeah, but aptX is designed to work around that issue with lossless compression (think of it like FLAC). Both earphones and device must support it in order to benefit, otherwise it goes to SBC fallback.

That's not to say there aren't poor quality speakers and earphones that support it of course, just like anything regardless of price, there are crap products as well as good

plasmahal · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:04

dacads said:
Where was that chilli festival?

Huntingdon.

dacads · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:11

plasmahal said:
Huntingdon.

Cheers, not too far from me actually.

neil_g · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:14

mrk said:
Standard SBC bluetooth is, yeah, but aptX is designed to work around that issue with lossless compression (think of it like FLAC). Both earphones and device must support it in order to benefit, otherwise it goes to SBC fallback.

That's not to say there aren't poor quality speakers and earphones that support it of course, just like anything regardless of price, there are crap products as well as good

Good to hear that things are improving.

But cables definitely aren't dead while there are people who care about sound quality with good sets of existing headphones. Personally I want to use my good headphones on the commute, get to the office /home and use the same headphones on my DAC or amp . I don't want to chop and change because one device is cabled and another isn't.

Just stick to an industry standard that "just works" as Apple would say. But the sceptic in me thinks they want to sell new wireless Beats to the uneducated (on sound quality) masses.

mrk · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:21

Personally I find any Beats (tried a bunch) headphone/earphone to be full of bass and lacking in clarity or mid frequency detail. I suppose I don't know what I was expecting given that they're endorsed by the kings of rap

bloodiedathame · 16 Oct 2016 at 20:22

A Palit 1060. Which a certain retailer, not OCUK, had left on my front door step on Friday evening. I've just got home, expecting it to be with a neighbour, but no, it's been sat there all weekend, not even in a brown cardboard box either.

Dis86 · 16 Oct 2016 at 21:04

That wasn't the retailer, it was the courier?

Tephnos · 16 Oct 2016 at 21:05

mrk said:
Ultimately wireless is the way to go. Since I started using the Bienna QY8 full time on my work commutes and sold the Sennheiser IE80, I've been thoroughly enjoying the convenience they offer without sacrificing audio quality. I got them for free, but they retail at under £30. Bluetooth earphones have come a very long way, and prove that cheap isn't always bad any more.

I don't know how much this applies to iPhones though,since no Apple device supports aptX over Bluetooth, so perhaps wired is better for them :/

Depending on the commute I'd appreciate a pair that can isolate like SE215s can, for example.

After being in the London tube once, I'm never going down there again without some kind of earplugs.

terley · 16 Oct 2016 at 21:36

amigafan2003 said:
Some light reading material.

Someone needs references for a report

bloodiedathame · 16 Oct 2016 at 21:38

Dis86 said:
That wasn't the retailer, it was the courier?

Their own 'Logistics' firm.

Shimmyhill · 16 Oct 2016 at 21:49

G-MAN2004 said:
£680! Talk about being rogered from behind, hard and dry. And now the earphones are wireless so you can't even strangle yourself for blowing so much. Spend half that on the superior S7 Edge and blow the rest on blackjack and hookers. Job done.

Ooooh when did Samsung drop Android?? :eek:

Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

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