How Much Headphone Is to Much Headphone

What are you using for a source?

Heya,

 

You'd do well with any headphone with that receiver. It even has dolby headphone, so you could do literally anything with it.

 

Get whatever headphone suits your fancy.

 

Very best,

Will your computer be near the receiver?  If it is I would just use a digital (optical, coax or usb if your Denon supports it) output from the computer.

Heya,

 

Optical (or SPDIFF) output -> Receiver -> Headphone.

Simple as that.

 

Very best,

 

no you can't.  but you can buy or use an existing computer and then use an usb to spidf converter.

 

I don't think you should buy a hd800 or any very revelating headphones with such a (no offense) modest source...

 

the ps1000 are another deal,

 

they don't change that much (less than a hd800, anyway) from an amp to another amp, let alone source..

 

but you really should audition them first, they're special and they might not be your cup of tea.

 

have you ever listened to high end headphones? do you have an Idea of the type of sound signature that you like?

Edited by customcoco - 11/20/11 at 1:41pm

I have a couple of questions. If you have a 2TB drive why would you settle for 320 mp3 and not use lossless?

Also, if you would spend the money on the PS1000, why not get a headphone like the HE500 and get a headphone amp and DAC? You'll need a DAC anyway if you want improved sound than what a computer's sound card will provide.

I'm not sure of the insistence of using that reciever if there are better headphone amp alternatives.
Edited by baka1969 - 11/20/11 at 2:26pm

How did you even get on the internet?

 

Please don't mind me, this could hardly be passed up, I'm literally laughing myself to tears. I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk. This was just too funny.

 

Take a more practical approach to this. Look at the hard drive. How does it connect to anything? Does your receiver have any connection that fits it? See what I'm asking? You're going to need a computer or network device which serves from such a storage device and can output it as a signal to something that can process it. In your case, you could output from any computer to the receiver via analog, optical or spdiff. But you still need something to translate the data on the harddrive to a useful signal that the receiver can read and process. So for example, harddrive -> computer -> receiver.

 

Very best,

I would recommend getting a good DAC for $200-300 and spending the remaining money on the headphones of your choice. Then just connect your hard drive and DAC to the computer, the DAC's output to the receiver, and control the media through the computer. A rig is only as good as the weakest component, so a bad computer sound card will severely limit your sound quality.

 

Hope that cleared it up for ya.

Edited by macrocheesium - 11/20/11 at 3:48pm

If you theoretically have a budget of, say, $1500, you can get a headphone like the HE500, a decent DAC and headphone amp for that budget.

Also, again, with a 2TB hard drive I would use lossless files. Why not use the best possible? Especially with the storage space you'll have. That's about 50,000 songs in lossless. There's no legitimate reason to use mp3.

Honestly I can see where he is coming from.  Many consumer audio players will play mp3s off of a USB drive or an SD card.  Just take a look at some of the head units for cars.

 

Also I took a closer look at his receiver and it is actually possible to play files off of a USB device.  So it's definitely an option for the OP to check out.  I am pretty sure that you would need to have a TV hooked up to it so you could navigate through the files.  You might be able to find a cheap and small LCD panel to do this for you though.