Well now hifiman have upped the price on the Shangri-la from 8k USD to 50k! Wow! Haha maybe a shot in the foot, may sell to some arab princes, but noone else! Chrissakes! Even the original was overpriced!

Well just got in Valhalla 2 for half-price used for 249 euro, and had modi magni stack before. So this is a test with various headphones and styles of music, as have around 8 cans right now and recently acquired Arya Stealth magnet which is my biggest purchase. Only just set up RCA split cables...

Going on chat with old mate. I picked them up for dirt cheap, 2900 nok or 247 euro used, and am waiting on Arya Stealth. But buddy says that OTL amps may not be a good match. I'm no guru, had to look up OTL etc (play guitar so have some idea of push-pull and class A etc), so it would seem...

Well thinking, if you want to be covered, iem's in tiny case with dac-amp for mobile, a pair of decent bluetooth over-ears, and a home setup with top-of-the-line dac and amp with one pair of closed back and one pair of open backed cans. That should pretty much cover all your needs. Am I missing...

Well from an old head-fier, to seeing the younguns on the bus and train and plane with over the ear sony and bose etc bluetooth headphones, pretty much everywhere. Must be worse quality of course? Coming from someone who back in the day had a fiio q1 attached to mobile, and kinera buds or...

Well had been using 3rd party cables with he-4xx without a problem, but on a whim thought to put in the originals. Near crisis! The plug self-destructed! Was able to remove the plug with pliers, and thank god shiit dac and amp still work. But literally, the plug on the original he-4xx cable just...

So as far as more expensive models go, have Hifi-man he-4xx (which are still a budget can), AKG k712 pro (too brittle for me) and Sennheiser HD600 (probably my best cans). So wondering given my low-budget setup (Schiit Magni and Modi) is there any reason to upgrade to a better hifi-man...

Well just picked up a pair for a long Dubai/Sydney flight, mostly to be able to sleep. 14 hour flight. Was amazed at noise-cancelling from qc25 from a mate a few years ago, so finally bit the bullet. Been using ear-plugs or Kinera IEMs so far, but finally had the monies to throw at the problem...

Went by call-sign schmallhauser or something, sent him a pair of akg k612's and been chatting for a few months. In his fifties, older guy, had a few heart-attacks, he may have voluntarily disappeared. But my latest chats have also disappeared. Forum admin can you confirm that he wanted all chats...

Well have a pair of Kinera 3-driver Iem's, several years old, purchased for around 100usd, pretty good. Looking to upgrade via ebay or alibaba to 4/5 driver version, so not the whole hog with custom iems or custom in-ears, but better iem's around the 4-500 dollar mark. Any suggestions? Am aware...

Well have Kinera iem's paired with FiO Q1 here, with Oneplus mobile (got them to work together, but yay! Oneplus has 3.5 mm jacks!). So the question is this, am I a dinsosaur or the last dinosaur going with wired iem's to a dac/amplifier, are the new generation of noise-cancelling iem's good...

So a quick poll of how many cans people have on the forum. Title says it all. List cans owned. Arne; (6) hifiman he-4xx, AKG k712, AKG k270mkii, Sennheiser hd600, Superlux hd330, superlux hd681. IEM's, Kinera (forget model). Headphone madness!

Not as bright as previous k612, may not need hundreds of hours burning in. Pretty good off the bat. Very similar sound signature as hd600. Very comfortable, most comfy of all my cans. Bass is somewhat lacking compared with hd600 and hifiman he-4xx which are my two other open-backed cans. Very...

Just curious, getting into head-fi world here. Not a hi-fier yet by any means (Schiit stack and hd600's). But if money were no object, what would you buy as regarding DAC, AMP and cans? Just wondering what I should buy if I win the lottery! Give approximate prices as well in descriptions of...

Any ideas there? Had to give away k612s as had a bent 3.5mm plug. At least with k712s that won't be a problem, I hope! They seem pretty similar, anyone who has had one chime in! A bit more expensive of course, just for the replaceable cable! Which is total bullocks of course, too cheap..they...

Well supposed to be good, an oldie but a goodie. Hoping that my Schiit stack magni and modi can power it. Crazy expensive, at 3890 nok or 350 USD. So a bit more than my hifi-man he-4xx's on drop. To replace my akg k612's which have a bent 3.5mm jack. The hifi-man cans didn't really impress on...

So been listening to my cans on older Asus Xonar pcie card or straight from the motherboard, and not getting the best out of my cans. For reference, AKG k612, AKGK271ii, Hifiman 4xxx on drop, Beyerdynamic dt770 pros, and some cheaper but still rocking Superlux cans. Apparently my cans would do a...

Was expecting better cans for the monies, nearly 300 usd or something. Quality was fine, but still had better sound out of old akg k612's out of the box. Tried both straight from computer and from an old asus sound card. I'm not sure how obsolete that is, listening to a sound card on the...

In the mountains, on my backup pc (15 years old), and gotta say, straight outta the back they don't sound too bad! Just bought a pair of hi-fi man planar magnetic cans, off drop, forget which version, but they don't sound significantly better than these super, cheap-as-chip chinese cans. These...

Just picked up a pair, to replace a pair of akg closed-backs which were given away as a present. Underwhelmed. Had earlier purchased the series of Superlux headphones, including the clones of the dt-770's. Listening on the pc via a Yahama mixer as headphone amp, they sound pretty good, but not...

I have on and off not what I would call tinitis, but high pitched sounds when I am tired, hung-over, or otherwise indisposed. It comes and goes so I don't think it is tinnitus. Mostly comes with lack of sleep, have it now after 45 hour door to door flight from australia to norway. On asking my...

Current rig...dual xeon workstation, and picked up a v-can (v1 !) after I realized the z9pe-d8 ws mobo couldn't drive my akg k612's....   After that, for the gaming, picked up an asus phoebus solo and el-cheapo logitech surround setup.     Now wondering, for music, what is the best signal...

Have a lot of cans (AKG k612's, k271 mk ii's, k141's,  el.-cheapo sennheiser in-ear 215's), but looking for software or apps that allow me to play music from the old original galaxy note via otg (have an old usb x-fi dac)....blew most of my expendable cash on sweet skiing gear, so can't afford...

Need some advice on setting up a small, cheap surround setup for my small home office/gaming cave. Looking to setup a surround system once my asus ROG Phoebe solo sound card arrives.   Have so far: a couple of M-Audio AV-40's which I want to use for front left/right.  So considering a 2.1 or...