I usually listen to music on my desktop PC, but today I decided to bring my Truthear Shio and M60x to the office as most of my colleagues were on a work trip. After hooking everything up to my laptop and pressing play, I very quickly noticed the treble was harsher than what I was used to.

Upon getting home, I did some (non-blind) testing and the difference in treble was certainly there.

  • Music source: Tidal (FLAC)
  • DAC: Truthear Shio
  • Headphones: M60x, DT990

This outcome doesn’t make sense to me; surely the data coming out of the USB-C ports of my desktop PC and my work laptop should be the same. Has anyone encountered something similar?

  • Unbelievable_Girth@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely. I got a random CX31993 dongle because the treble on my laptop’s built-in DAC was unbearable. Got rid of the treble, but the buzzing sound is still there :(