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This $20 Chinese dongle fits the ASR/Amir model of cheap equals good.  Low price excuses shortcomings.  The digital side might not be horrible.  However, converting to analog is where the rubber meets the road to achieve quality audio. At the $20 price point and small package, the analog conversion will be mediocre at best. Experience in the advanced signal processing world is my bona fide.

Chew on the this snake oil sounding statement from the HiBy site describing one of their headphone products.  "The Yves earphones are not only compact and lightweight but also equipped with the latest 6mm titanium-plated composite molecular diaphragm, which allows the micro-dynamic driver to faithfully reproduce the natural sound and surging sensation of music."

@texbychoice 

You don’t understand.

It has nothing to do with cost and everything to do with the optimization of the hardware + software in this case.

The company that builds this product has their own music app for apple and android devices.

Within the app, you can take full control of how the USB bus is handled, to optimize it for the intended purpose (music playback).

In addition, there are MSEB settings that you can change to  transform how it sounds without EQ or whatnot, even if you don’t like it.

For example: My MSEB Settings for the HiBy R6 III and Sennheiser HD 660S2

Please do not post silly arguments like this. You make yourself look both inexperienced and too sure of yourself. That, and your posts ramble on a bit too much for someone who is supposed to be a grown adult.

frank009 

Please do not post silly arguments like this. You make yourself look both inexperienced and too sure of yourself. That, and your posts ramble on a bit too much for someone who is supposed to be a grown adult.

Take your complaints to the moderators. Why should it be our job to please you - a bot or AI-driven experiment?