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?
I’ve experienced something similar at times. May just be crappy USB ports that’s leaking more noise than it should? Dunno.
Try turning on airplane mode, changing USB power settings, overall power settings to performance mode (or power saver mode?), etc. That’s after you make sure no other effects are being applied (e.g., make sure you’re in exclusive mode and some have said that the “disable all enhancements” setting makes a difference even in exclusive mode).
Try comparing to your phone?