The combination of these three components are musically fantastical, in the extreme! If you have the opportunity to listen to them, then please do and a slice of nirvana you will, indeed, experience! And please, let me know when you do.

This combination, to date, is an AudioKey Reviews Magical Synergy of Magical Synergies and we happily move it to the top of the Magical Synergies list.

A true Magical Synergy in that this dollar-shy of a thousand clams (dollars) system is, indeed, a Magical Synergy that lifts the other up to a level either could not attain individually, perhaps. We happily list it among our growing list of magical synergies.

Together, these two exceptionally, well-made components, offer sublime musicality, flagship-level transparency, and captivating engagement. One need only listen to get this synergy and why it is so magical. Our highest recommendation!

Two incredible components, both of which are DIAMOND award winners, one of which is a Best of the Year Product for 2020—Meze Empyrean—with the other very much in the running for that designation in 2021. This is truly another Magical Synergy that will beautifully play back, literally, all musical genres and with aplomb!

The “Fun, fun, fun” that the Final Audio Sonorous III delivers will dovetail beautifully to the musical, though more neutral, very detailed, and all comers sampling—DSD512, MQA, 768kHz/32-bit—that the FiiO Q3 brings to the table, and the bass, incredible! Indeed a perfect Magical Synergy in so many respects!

It is like the beautiful coming together of two 500-piece halves of a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Two transparent, natural, musical components that perform some very good audio calisthenics—top to bottom, side to side, headroom to transient speed to dynamics. Did you get the “sound staging references?” Imagine what that must sound like? Yes, a Magical Synergy. We certainly thought so.

Both the Obravo RA-C-CU and the Shanling M8 provide an individual performance that lifts them both far above their respective product niches—IEM, DAP. However, in alliance they are incredibly synergistic even though from a cost perspective they do live in different economic climes.

The AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt and the Meze 99 Classics bring a truly exceptional synergy to bear for those who consider themselves music lovers and who enjoy a diverse array of musical genres from classical to jazz to hip-hop to country. And don’t forget, as mentioned above, the movies!

The Obravo EAMT-2C and the Cayin N6ii/A01 are yet another incredible duo that serves the music and the listener via a beautiful, natural tonality, class leading transparency and an analog-like rendering of one’s music, that very few pairings can match.

Together at a combined price point of $458 the DragonFly Red and the FiiO FH5 will be shooting to challenge those DAC/IEM combinations just above the $1,000 mark, where they will not be embarrassed. And despite the fact that 24-bit/96kHz is the height of their decoding ability, what you do hear will be wonderfully musical and engaging and transparent.

The iBASSO DX220 and the VISION EARS EVE are both exceptional products that individual and collectively challenge Top-of-the-Line (TOTL) products across both DAP and IEM categories! And together, they are a music lover’s dream—volumes of detail and analog-like musicality, that at their collective price point, we believe, are without peer.

Together these two products—AudioQuest DragonFly Black and the iBasso IT00—their collective price point at $178, will rise to challenge any computer and its branded wired or wireless buds and even at double or greater than their collective price, they will win more comparisons than lose.