Had a great time - thank-you to everyone for bringing your gear. I could only stay for a couple of hours... only got about halfway through the room. Next time! ;)

Okay everyone... thanks for getting me here! Just auditioned for about two hours a bunch of over-ear headphones (Audeze LCD- and LCD-X, Grado GS200e and PS500e and Focal Elear), with my Dragonfly Red (and an in-store NAiM DAC-V1 as a comparison)... and I just purchased a pair of Audeze LCD-X...

I wish I had too all that time ago! :) More good advice from everyone... thank you. Let me mention a couple more things... What I remember from ~30 years ago was listening to a track (various 80/90's pop) that I know very well, and it was the "gaps" in the music that I really noticed as most...

Just saw this thread - I am "in" if you guys can please arrange :)

Thanks for the feedback so far. The headphones I have tried right now: Audio Technical's ATH-MT50 (cost about $100, 5 years ago), Bose QC20 IEM (with noise cancellation) and a low-cost Klipsch in-ear (I don't have the model but they are ~6 years old and cost ~$50). I will also vary-up my music...

Maybe a common story, but... once upon a time I auditioned a high-end audio system. This was about 30 years ago, and its cost today would probably be in the $10k range. I was blown away by the sound it produced and how it transformed my test-CD into something new and amazing, letting me hear...

Great feedback - thanks!   So... next question....   Are SE846-CL overkill? I am a techno-geek, so love the technology they use. But for AAC encoding, are something like SE535 just as good for half the price?    Any other recommendation for other IEM for me? I would like to stay with IEM...

Hello Head-Fi!    I am new here, and am on a quest...   I used to listen to CD's in the 90's endlessly (mainly pop/rock), on a "cheap" $200 speaker system. Then one day, I decided to upgrade to a CD, AMP and Speaker combo which was classed as "HiFi" and cost about $2000. So I went to a local...

Hello,   I am new here, and have some questions! First a short summary of my HiFi experience. I used to listen to CD's in the 90's endlessly (mainly pop/rock), on a "cheap" $200 speaker system. Then one day, I decided to upgrade to a CD, AMP and Speaker combo which was classed as "HiFi" and...