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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #420 on: April 12, 2014, 03:56:40 AM »
Try different USB cables, bro. It sounds like you're on the cusp of signal integrity. Digital doesn't fuzz up, it cracks and cuts. Do you have one with a ferrite?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #421 on: April 12, 2014, 04:23:22 AM »
I think using Jriver would be your best bet.  It is much easier to control the output in Jriver.  If you want a cheaper alternative Foobar will probably work.  I was turned off Foobar by the pain in set up compared with Jriver.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #422 on: April 12, 2014, 10:52:13 AM »
Thanks again, pirates. You guys are the absolute best! I returned the cable and asked for a shorter one (2m, instead of 3m) and all seems well now. Running a song at 24/196 and everything is, finally, the way it should be.
Why Foobar/Jriver over MediaMonkey?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #423 on: April 12, 2014, 11:08:39 AM »
IMO, JRiver MC has the most/best options, most intuitive UI, a good collection management system, and a solid, consistent sound. HQPlayer is also good, but expensive. It offers a lot of nice upsampling filters and sounds good, but the UI is weird, and it only supports a few types of lossless music files. cPlay is sorta similar to HQPlayer, but simpler, free, and has less options. Foobar is also good for being free. I felt JRMC and HQPlayer had better SQ than cPlay or Foodbar, though.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #424 on: April 12, 2014, 06:07:22 PM »
Media monkey as of last year sounded awful.  I used to run it for ages before I learned more about digital playback and tested other players.  Everything I ripped with it or play back from it just sounded noticeably more dull and lacking.  We're talking wave and flac here.  I even heard it on other PCs.  CEntrance used it on their demo rig and it's still heinous last I heard it.  I could tell right way they were using the Monkey.  Sounds like a Monkey throwing poo in your ears.  It ir or was definitely one of those contributing factors that helps make everything sound the same.

It's one of those things you don't notice until you do a side by side and then you'll hear it right away from then on once you know what to listen for. 
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #425 on: April 13, 2014, 07:44:47 PM »
A friend asked me what is the most neutral, accurate CIEM or IEM available these days? If cost is not an issue, what's your opinion?


I have the Noble K10's, but I don't know if they are the most neutral. This friend got a pair of Heir 8.A's and thought they were too colored and lacking detail. So he is a little leery about going with Noble again.


I have not heard the UERM. Are they considered neutral?


Thanks.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #426 on: April 13, 2014, 08:05:07 PM »
UERM are regarded as very neutral by most people here AFAIK, but I don't know much more than that. I read that they might need a little bit of EQ for some tiny peak to be truly linear/neutral?
If that is a problem, I honestly don't know. Fitear F111 is considered very neutral but it might lack a bit of bass or so? and it's basically a more expensive Etymotic ER4-something, supposedly improved.
uhh sorry, don't think I'm actually of much help but UERM is definitely one I have in my sights for neutral/linear.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #427 on: April 13, 2014, 08:42:31 PM »
Quote from: Out Of Your Head on April 13, 2014, 07:44:47 PM
A friend asked me what is the most neutral, accurate CIEM or IEM available these days? If cost is not an issue, what's your opinion?


I have the Noble K10's, but I don't know if they are the most neutral. This friend got a pair of Heir 8.A's and thought they were too colored and lacking detail. So he is a little leery about going with Noble again.


I have not heard the UERM. Are they considered neutral?


Thanks.

Yep, UERM is about as neutral as it gets. I haven't heard the K10s so I don't really know. There aren't any peaks in them I think, but you can just check the measurements posted here.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #428 on: April 13, 2014, 08:47:31 PM »
Quote from: munch on April 13, 2014, 08:05:07 PM
UERM are regarded as very neutral by most people here AFAIK, but I don't know much more than that. I read that they might need a little bit of EQ for some tiny peak to be truly linear/neutral?
If that is a problem, I honestly don't know. Fitear F111 is considered very neutral but it might lack a bit of bass or so? and it's basically a more expensive Etymotic ER4-something, supposedly improved.
uhh sorry, don't think I'm actually of much help but UERM is definitely one I have in my sights for neutral/linear.
I have the ETY ER4S and they are really good, but NO bass at all. I've been searching for an ER4S with bass IEM or CIEM for a long time. Noble says they have done it with their new "switch" products (FR and PR), but I have heard them and they don't have the same detail and accuracy as the Ety's. But they have more bass. They sound like they might be tuned with elevated treble levels, but not more detail.

I will try to set up a demo for him with the UERM. So far there are no measurements with the K10 are there?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #429 on: April 13, 2014, 08:57:23 PM »
UERM and Hidition NT6... from my understanding.
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