These headphones present an accurate image of your music than ordinary headphones, allowing you to hear every nuance and aspect of your music. Therefore, having a good set of studio headphones is just as important as any other gear in your studio. E50 uses a DC5V power supply, which can be easily accessed almost everywhere. You can power it up by USB port of PC, mobile phone charger or even a power bank. As you see, power is provided through a 5 volt barrel connector. Topping provides a USB to barrel cable adapter so you can use any USB power supply. One of the reasons headphones and earphones in India are more expensive than overseas is because of the Goods & Services Tax in India. Most amplifiers have SNR at 105db. I could be wrong. I know SNR is important. Then you can hear small nuances in the mix better.

Will update once I test with my headphones and IEMs (HE 4XX, HD58X, GL2000, koss kph30i, Shuoer Tape and Blon bl03) using SMSL SP200 THX 888 amp. StereoNET (United Kingdom) is part of an international network of publications owned wholly by Sound Media International Pty Ltd Well if you have a good DSP in the chain for room correction, then concepts such as 'clinical' etc become pretty much irrelevant if your correction DSP allows you to choose a target curve/tilt towards whatever level of natural/warm tilt you desire and your DSP, DAC and amp all combine to flawlessly reproduce that to whatever speaker you use.This review was originally written and published on Audio Science Review by Amir Majidimehr on August 31st, 2021. I considered the D10s or even the E50. I'm a bit afraid of their implementation though, I'm under the impression that their dacs tend to have a more narrow and shallow soundstage, that's something I didn't want to lose from the Zen.

It's not like you could ever hear the difference between -120dB and -140dB distortion and noise anyway. DACs/AMPs/Streamer : Chord Mojo, Ifi xDSD Gryphon, Ifi DSD BL, SMSL M8a, NobSound MS-10D Hybrid Tube, Topping NX4 DSD, Fiio A3, Fiio A5, Ifi xDSD, AM3D, JDS Labs Atom, SMSL sAp-12, Topping D50, APPJ PA1501A Pure Tubes, Ifi Zen Blue, Ifi Zen Dac, Shanling M0, Fiio BTR5, ifi Hip Dac, Ifi Zen Can, Topping A5s, Reiyin DAC, Fiio BTA30, Ibasso DC04, Ifi XCan, Questyle M12, Topping D10 Balanced, Topping E50, Topping L50, Fiio KA3, Ifi Streamer, Questyle M15, Cayin RU6. As the name implies, anything branded as studio headphones is designed especially for a studio setting with a particular focus on accuracy and transparency for monitoring and mixing.

If your gain is such that you can create a peak of 100dB SPL through your speakers and yet your noise floor is below -100dB, it will be inaudible.

Clean and detailed. Worth it considering the price for this balanced dac. Flawless performance from it's balanced output. I have only tested as a source to powered speakers. The interface is not so straightforward. You really need to take care if you are switching from line out to pre out because there is no separate mode in dac. If you are not careful, full line out signal will go to your power amp/speaker.

Are any folks using the E50's balanced output in preamp mode to drive powered monitors. Is that working well? E50 has a preamplifier function so you can control the output volume on the remote control. This will provide great convenience when connected to a power amplifier Three different anti-aliasing filters are provided, selectable via the supplied remote control, with 'fast roll-off – minimum' being the default setting. This sounds like an exciting feature, but on most music, much of the time, there wasn't a huge degree of difference in terms of sound – the changes were pretty subtle. Nevertheless, this cute little device has an extremely clear, clean and detailed sound for its price – and of course, it is an inexpensive way into MQA. It is easy to use and has a very handy (for some) balanced output facility. It's hard not to recommend, all things considered. E50 auto On/Off function, it will automatically turn on and set to the input which the signal is valid. And when the signal of E50's selection is not valid for 1 minute, E50 will turn off automatically.

Are any folks using the E50's balanced output in preamp mode to drive powered monitors? Is that working well? You can already listen to 24 bit music for decades. You don't need true 24 bit resolution for that. You can't hear -120 dB signals in music anyway (if it could be recorded in real life situations anyway).To state the obvious, hiss is when the gain and SPL output level is high enough that noise floor becomes audible. One of the internet radio services - TuneIn, etc. As long as you can get access to BBC and country/regional radio services for where you are. IEMs: MeeAudio Pinnacle 1, 1more Quad, Alpha&Delta D6, TFZ king Pro, TFZ Galaxy T2, Fiio FH1, KZ ZST, VE Monk, KZ ED16, Campfire Audio Comet, TFZ Secret Garden 3, Revonext QT2, TFZ X1, BGVP DM6, MoonDrop Kanas Pro, FLC8P, BGVP DM7, TFZ No.3Ti, Tin Audio P1, BGVP DH3, Shouer Tape, Blon BL-03, Thieaudio Legacy 3, Thieaudio Voyager 3, UrbanFun YBF ISS014, Shouer Soloist, Shouer Tape Pro, BGVP DM8, Fiio UTWS3, KZ ZEX, KZ DQ6, Moondrop Kato, BGVP DX6, Shouer S12.