ajryn7
Apprentice
Hello Everyone,
As you see from the title, I'm Ajay. Recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering and passionate about tech, gadgets, bikes, and cars. I was introduced to this forum by reddit. Yes, You guessed right. I'm kind of a late bloomer in this internet space. I know Gmail, Facebook from a long time, but not much about Instagram or Snapchat. I was never attracted to them, may be due to my insecurity of sharing myself over those sites or it's just a lot of information that I'm not at all into.
Coming to the forum, I know it's a tech forum with lot of experienced tech people discussing about new things every now and then. I want to dip myself into these things, to stay in between of those discussions, learn something new, and if possible, write a good post one day. I don't know what I can contribute to this forum on my very first day. But, let me talk about my recent acquisition. a brand new IEM with a DAC which changed my perception of listening songs.
IEM, which is a short form for In-Ear Monitor, is a kind of wired earphones. you might call it a fancy one with their distinct shape of the wire going beyond your ears, and to the IEM itself. IEMs are specifically designed music listening devices, to replicate most accurate version of sound using specially designed equipments. They try to enhance your listening experience by playing those long lost bass response or a simple tabla sound that the music director introduced in the corner of a song to give a twist to otherwise simple flowing song. With right tools, they can help in listening to the nuances of the same song that we might have listened dozens of times.
With all that info I gathered over the intenet, I took a chance to try listening to those nuances by purchasing 7hz Salnotes Zero2 IEM and Audiocular D07 DAC online. Initially my expectations of listening to something new was shattered, as I was expecting without understanding what I can listen. It was clear that the DAC is playing the song with lot of clarity and volume, but something is missing. The feeling of experiencing that long lost nuances.
One night after completing my dinner, I want to see whether I can listen to those nuances or not. I opened the laptop, connected the IEM to DAC, and the combination to the PC using type-C port. Windows readily showed that the connection is a DAC by showing its chip+amp details, the initial setup was set. Luckily, I have some FLAC and ALAC audio files which I can test as I have listened to them a lot of times in the past.
I tried playing the first song 'Kilimanjaro Bhala' from the movie 'Robot(Telugu)'. I changed the ear tips to my ear size (changed to medium), took my time to setup the IEM correctly into my ear, set the system volume to 15% and started playing. The reality kicked in less than 5 seconds as I experienced a different feeling as I closed my eyes. A complete different experience where I can pinpoint the sound from which direction it was coming, the base showing its thump, the vocals were so alive as if the singer(s) sounded live-recording. It was a different feeling and I'm excited. I continued playing the songs which contained lot of details along with vocals. It was joyous feeling as I was transported to new world, and suddenly everything was sounding a little new, a little alive, and I was enjoying it.
Someone told that IEMs are what gives the joy of listening to music in a nice way, and I'm sold on it. I'm not writing much about DAC, It's just like an engine. We'll appreciate a good engine if it pushes beyond its limit. but we can enjoy the whole car as an experience. DAC converts the digital signals to analog signals, and D07 did a fine job along with amplification. I was listening to a fuller experience at much less volume that I would normally listen to. I guess I made my introduction not so boring with all these things.
That's it guys from my side, A new guy in the town.
Thank you for reading my first post, I don't know how it actually sounds, and if you have something to say, please don't hold back. I'm open to listening to it.
See you guys around. Bye!.
As you see from the title, I'm Ajay. Recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering and passionate about tech, gadgets, bikes, and cars. I was introduced to this forum by reddit. Yes, You guessed right. I'm kind of a late bloomer in this internet space. I know Gmail, Facebook from a long time, but not much about Instagram or Snapchat. I was never attracted to them, may be due to my insecurity of sharing myself over those sites or it's just a lot of information that I'm not at all into.
Coming to the forum, I know it's a tech forum with lot of experienced tech people discussing about new things every now and then. I want to dip myself into these things, to stay in between of those discussions, learn something new, and if possible, write a good post one day. I don't know what I can contribute to this forum on my very first day. But, let me talk about my recent acquisition. a brand new IEM with a DAC which changed my perception of listening songs.
IEM, which is a short form for In-Ear Monitor, is a kind of wired earphones. you might call it a fancy one with their distinct shape of the wire going beyond your ears, and to the IEM itself. IEMs are specifically designed music listening devices, to replicate most accurate version of sound using specially designed equipments. They try to enhance your listening experience by playing those long lost bass response or a simple tabla sound that the music director introduced in the corner of a song to give a twist to otherwise simple flowing song. With right tools, they can help in listening to the nuances of the same song that we might have listened dozens of times.
With all that info I gathered over the intenet, I took a chance to try listening to those nuances by purchasing 7hz Salnotes Zero2 IEM and Audiocular D07 DAC online. Initially my expectations of listening to something new was shattered, as I was expecting without understanding what I can listen. It was clear that the DAC is playing the song with lot of clarity and volume, but something is missing. The feeling of experiencing that long lost nuances.
One night after completing my dinner, I want to see whether I can listen to those nuances or not. I opened the laptop, connected the IEM to DAC, and the combination to the PC using type-C port. Windows readily showed that the connection is a DAC by showing its chip+amp details, the initial setup was set. Luckily, I have some FLAC and ALAC audio files which I can test as I have listened to them a lot of times in the past.
I tried playing the first song 'Kilimanjaro Bhala' from the movie 'Robot(Telugu)'. I changed the ear tips to my ear size (changed to medium), took my time to setup the IEM correctly into my ear, set the system volume to 15% and started playing. The reality kicked in less than 5 seconds as I experienced a different feeling as I closed my eyes. A complete different experience where I can pinpoint the sound from which direction it was coming, the base showing its thump, the vocals were so alive as if the singer(s) sounded live-recording. It was a different feeling and I'm excited. I continued playing the songs which contained lot of details along with vocals. It was joyous feeling as I was transported to new world, and suddenly everything was sounding a little new, a little alive, and I was enjoying it.
Someone told that IEMs are what gives the joy of listening to music in a nice way, and I'm sold on it. I'm not writing much about DAC, It's just like an engine. We'll appreciate a good engine if it pushes beyond its limit. but we can enjoy the whole car as an experience. DAC converts the digital signals to analog signals, and D07 did a fine job along with amplification. I was listening to a fuller experience at much less volume that I would normally listen to. I guess I made my introduction not so boring with all these things.
That's it guys from my side, A new guy in the town.
Thank you for reading my first post, I don't know how it actually sounds, and if you have something to say, please don't hold back. I'm open to listening to it.
See you guys around. Bye!.
