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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #60 on: September 23, 2015, 09:33:43 PM »
Quote from: Armaegis on September 23, 2015, 09:27:55 PM
I feel that dacs hit the wall of diminishing returns the fastest. It's practically a zero cost for most people as the built-in whatevers of their devices for the most part are "good enough".

Some people, like me still enjoy a CD with the headphone plugged in to the CD-player. A good black plastic crap with decent DAC and headphone out can be picked up for less than 20 Euros/Dollars in good condition. So yeah...
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #61 on: September 23, 2015, 09:56:01 PM »
C'mon man, minidisc or bust  :)p13
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #62 on: September 23, 2015, 10:25:39 PM »
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #63 on: September 23, 2015, 11:08:17 PM »
Ah, see I thought you were talking about this kind of thing...

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Not sure if I like stuffing one hole or both holes. Tending toward one hole since both holes seems kinda ghey ~Purrin

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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #64 on: September 23, 2015, 11:15:03 PM »
Quote from: Koloth on September 23, 2015, 05:42:22 PM
Slightly more OT than we already are: Was one of those 25 closed portables by chance the Shure SRH1540? If so, what were your thoughts on that one?

OT? There was a T? Anyhoo, I didn't buy the 1540 because it didn't seem portable and costs twice as much as the others. In that case, I might as well wear my Paradox to work.

The best of the lot was TBSE1 (a.k.a. ProDJ100) with pad swapping and light mods. Austin's modded MDR-1R, which I heard later, was a little better overall.
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #65 on: September 24, 2015, 12:23:33 AM »
Usually speakers/headphones first and then amp. I kinda put source just as important as picking headphone/speakers as well. Good resolving speakers/headphones are more source picky then so much compared to amp picky. So me headphones/speakers>source>amp in roughly that fashion...
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #66 on: September 24, 2015, 12:59:38 AM »
Apart from the Stax, KGSSHV and Yggy total system configuration that I have, every other configuration has Yggy as the most expensive individual item (or roughly equal to the amp in case of the ZDS) in the chain.
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #67 on: September 24, 2015, 01:35:54 AM »
Quote from: Psalmanazar on September 23, 2015, 11:01:27 AM
Even the "upgrading from Beats" crowd you see on Reddit is hilarious...The amount of V6/7506 I see despite legitimately sounding like holding tin cans with string up to your ears and with some asshole bashing them with a tuning fork every time a cymbal or snare plays.
For headphone, upgrading from a V6 to my AD700, was my "...and the curtains of Heaven parted, letting the Light descend unto my eardrums." Coming from cheap IEMs, the V6's seemed pretty good. At the time, my issue with them was they made my ears unbearably warm. So I went open-backed and bought the AD700's after reading reviews describing huge sound stage (+++), accurate position (+++), and matching classical (+). Played the first track of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto's; truly like night and day. The V6 sound was so harsh and metallic. It's amazing what the brain can do without suitable reference points. As of right now, the HE560s did not do the same thing for me. Maybe this is because the V6's were so bad, and the AD700's were pretty good.

Quote from: Marvey on September 23, 2015, 05:51:26 PM
I like to think in terms of TOTAL SYSTEM. Plan a budget for an entire system.
<$1000
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<$5000
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<$15,000
Those are some pretty distant break points...Gumby sort of breaks my ratio to pieces.  :)p1
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #68 on: September 24, 2015, 02:27:51 AM »
Quote from: kothganesh on September 24, 2015, 12:59:38 AM
Apart from the Stax, KGSSHV and Yggy total system configuration that I have, every other configuration has Yggy as the most expensive individual item (or roughly equal to the amp in case of the ZDS) in the chain.

I suppose that depends on how you define 'every other'. I know that's not true in my case or anyone who ordered a Studio or Teton/Pinnacle, WA5, LAu, others. I wish my amp cost as much as an Yggy, holy schiit!
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Re: Spending more on an amp then headphones
« Reply #69 on: September 24, 2015, 06:15:34 AM »
I should have typed "every other configuration that I have". Apologies.
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