What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
But if you're going to run a full-on collaboration, here are my thoughts.
I'm not sure what is the main driver of the price disparity between the 770 and the 1770 models: The 1770 regularly retails for $599 and the 770 was just on Massdrop for less than $150. Where does that $449 come from in the manufacturing and R&D costs? If it's the Tesla 2.0 drivers that drive that cost up, well my original suggestion of dropping custom matched 770 drivers into the 1770 chassis still stands.
But if that "main battle tank" build of a chassis is what costs so much, why not just get some hand matched tesla 2.0 drivers and drop them into a 770 chassis with a MD bespoke colorway (and for the love of GOD, give it a detachable cable!!!) and sell the Massdrop x Beyerdynamic DT7XX.
You could probably comfortably sell it for $199 and it would be a great closed back compliment to the two main MD collabs with Sennheiser and AKG.
The DT7XX (detachable, Tesla driver, better colorway) at 199 was the first thing we pitched beyer in 2015. Sadly it wasnt possible from a cost perspective. I cant say much about the specifics there, but consider that many companies (across most technical product industries) sell their popular, affordable but iconic models at break-even or a slight loss to maintain market share. And that's at the manufacturing level, let alone when you get to the retailer level where Google indexes the lowest prices first in shopping searches so you might take a loss as a new retailer to attract people who you can sell more stuff to (at a higher margin) later.
We've been working with beyer to figure out the right path since 2015 and it's been a long road, littered with prototypes that couldn't quite make the cut.
Thankfully, the journey looks to be nearing an end. We have a prototype of a DT1770, retuned to smooth the Mt.Beyer peaks, and present the mids evenly without taking away from the deep bass rumble (along with a host of other beneficial changes).
More details to come soon, but based on all the information we can sift, this should get the community pretty excited.
Good luck with the drop!