Popular Post coogee.de Posted June 28, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2017 The ADI-2 Pro is the best piece of audio hardware I ever bought... and over the years I have bought a lot. And this hardware helped me to finally realize, that the quality of the DAC or the quality of the amplifier is almost unimportant as long as every headphone available has no linear frequency spectrum. Even a very expensive headphone like my Focal Utopia has an annoying hump from 1 to 4 kHz. The high frequency peak of the HD800 is also well known. Sometimes you are lucky, when you find an amplifier, which "fits" to your phones, because it has the opposite flaws. (I also had once a tube amplifier, where I changed the tubes until I found a setting fitting somewhat to my HD800.) This is were the ADI-2 Pro helped me: The fantastic DSP with a digital 5-band parametric equalizer. I programmed it to flatten out the hump -> result: best sounding headphone system I ever had!!! (and for much less money actually) An extra amp is also not necessary, because I couldn't find any improvements when connected to a Violectric V281 or Auralic Taurus. So, I stopped my search for the holy grail sound and will not spend any further money for expensive audiophile headphone equipment. Ok... I maybe will buy an ADI-2 Pro II Giacomino, ronkuper, asdf1000 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment
coogee.de Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 7 hours ago, straycat said: I just noticed that there is Anniversary edition introduced. Has anybody got this one? I wonder what are differences apart from cosmetics like glassy look-through top. I mean is it worth extra 200 EUR to get this one instead of regular one. It is really just cosmetic: black color, a window and some internal LEDs. IMHO not worth the extra 400 (!) EUR. Even 200 EUR is too much. Link to comment
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