This is my first HIFI product. It enhances the sound quality obviously, and different EQ and ATE are suitable for various music and other sound outputs. When I listen to the next song, I may need to switch the EQ and then again for the next song, which makes me scramble. However, I just cannot go without this little thing. In addition to listening to music, I use it when playing games, watching movies and shows, and even listening to ASMR. The shocking sound effects are extremely enjoyable for the eardrums and brain. Many thanks to Leonard from MusicTeck for the description and recommendation, it is really suitable for metals.
This dongle is well built. It has a neutral, slightly warm tonality and it brings a nice timbre out of my e 4000 iems. I like the EQ it has, very effective at helping me match whatever headphone I'm using. Overall I'm very happy with this device.
Love the support to my phone music without eating up the battery of the phone. Quite efficient.
As I sit listening to War on Drugs, I am reminded of not just how much I missed my Lotoo for 3+ weeks. My cables became compromised (my best cat) right when my PAW S2 arrived.
And so I am comfortably at Vol 47 on Flat with the new PAW S2. Easy to compare from a razor-sharp memory, despite the absence from my PAW S1. I read several reviews that leaned me into asking Andrew @ MusicTeck a couple questions, but he wisely did not sell me on these, and rather let me read a more detailed review by an expert greater than I.
In a word, the PAW S2 is brilliant. Sure, louder. But the music is more forward on my Unique Melody MEST than before. I did not have issues with my S1 amp or my UM MEST. But as a guy into tech, you learn to grow into new shoes each year or so. The S2 will drop you to your knees a bit. The sheer presence of texture will bring it.
It is well far more warm, textured, deep and fast in the sub-bass and I’m hearing very thinly audible nuance at the high end on the same songs I’ve heard 20x before. It’s reaching me, subconsciously, deeper into the music than before.
And maybe the best thing I can say for this amp is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” What you are not hearing on the S1 you don’t know is actually there. I hope that helps. I’m just a guy who loves his instruments, his vocals — this passes through my ears like the fingernails of a lover scratching my back. It feels like THAT.
Purchased thru Amazon and highly impressed with the powerhouse sound! Makes my HD6XX sing and removed the veil. My favorite eq is Rock. Simple plug and play with my iPad Pro and laptop. Firmware update was a bit confusing, but I figured it out without bricking the PAW S2.
Very real, wide sound that is coming at your head in layers. Of course, I'm coming from an entry-mid DAP, the iBasso DX170, where tone is there about 70% and space around the instruments not so much. So, yes, what the audiophiles write about is true: there is more atmosphere and less veiling of sound. Also, the tube hybrid mode is very useful in hearing different perspectives of the sound decay and harmonic partials that the ear picks up, though this may be dependent on the headphones being used. Basically, the tubes add more air and bloom.
This Iem is a little dry, with less bass i expected. However the iem have a good technicality and precision with an ample scene
Very well made cable on top of everything else it sounds extremely good very detailed and warmed!
Obviously if you have a good pair of IEM!
Quite pleasant staging--remarkable. Tonality is very pretty without misconstruing the tonality of instruments--especially midrange 'analogue' sounds that I listen to in classical genres. There is some flattening of sound as you hear it spread across the stage, perhaps opposite of IEM's that congeal sound into more depth/ height like I heard in the Ronin or MU Multiverse Mentor. But if you're not obsessively comparing it to others, you could live with the Aurora's special qualities on its own merits.
I own a pair of Oriolus Szalayi for sometime and they are great IEM’s. I decided to upgrade to the Oriolus Monachaa based on the reviews I had read and the desire for improved performance. I was somewhat skeptical about paying more than twice the price of the Szalayi, that the price increase would provide a significant improvement in sound quality. I had to find out for myself, so I pulled the trigger and made the purchase. After a brief (20 hours) breaking period, I can attest that the improvement in sound quality is very real and well worth
the price paid. The sound stage is much bigger and deeper like being in the room with the players. The frequency response beautifully tuned for a very engaging performance. The bass is deep and articulate, but not over-bearing, it’s there when it needs to be there. The highs are sweet and extended, but not a trace of shrillness. The midrange frequencies produce vocals that are uncongested and mesmerizing. The best purchase I have ever made!
