RyanGregory1118
New Head-Fier
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Hello everyone I'm gonna be in the market soon for a higher end pair of headphones and I plan on getting a portable amp/DAC to power them rather than my Samsung Galaxy SIII that I use with my Grado SR80i's. I want to upgrade to the Grado RS1i's if I can get myself to spend the pretty penny on them and since they cost $700 I want to squeeze every bit of performance/sound quality I can out of them with an external amp/DAC. My question is this: do the RS1i's greatly benefit from an external amp/DAC rather than using my phone and if so what would be the best choice? I was considering getting the RS1i's and a Fiio E17(or Audioengine D1, iBasso D2+ Boa, etc...) with an Fiio L9 iPod line out and re-ripping/downloading my music in some sort of lossless format(currently all my music is 320kbps AAC). Is the E17 "good" enough for the RS1i's? Is there any other amp/DACs I should know about below $200? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Also, about how much improvement are the RS1i's over the SR80i's(which i currently have)? BTW I mainly listen to rock and metal. One last thing: what is the best/perferred audio file format? FLAC, WAV, or ??? Thanks so much!!