Heya, The HE-400's are easy to drive, so I would put a pretty significant resistor on there if you wanted to use a receiver like the TX8020 on its speaker taps. I used a 500 ohm resistor on my Denon D5000's that are super easy to drive and that did the trick for me on all my amplifiers that I...

Same! I'm still using my HE500 on my Tubemagic D2 tube DAC and the Emotiva mini-X A-100. I've never bothered to change it. And it's amazing to just enjoy listening and stop searching for "gear." :beerchug: Very best,

:beerchug: Thanks! And I do miss good discussion, I likely need to catch up on what's changed in the past couple of years! I thought it was really cool that Emotiva updated their A-100 to have a headphone port so that you don't need speaker taps and you can use a jumper to use the full...

Agree, I struggled letting go of all the headphones you just mentioned. I liked having them and used a different one for a different genre, etc. I realized I was just hording though and collecting and so I finally let them go. I bought a DT770 literally like 4 times total because I just enjoyed...

Thanks! I dare say it was easier when there were less choices! Now, everyone and their uncle has a headphone line. Add to that the market has heavily shifted and literally everyone buys and trades DROP (Mass Drop) dealed headphones from mass crowd funding purchases. And the market for DAC/AMPs...

Thanks; I lurk but ultimately after going through the process and finding something that just does the job, I found it a much better endevour to just listen instead of constantly looking for the next good deal or next better option. The DAC, AMP and headphone(s) have been going non stop for...

Agreed, and I'm here now almost 9 years later still doing it. Every now and then I log in and see what people are talking about. But really, I found the most value in simply getting something good and then just listening to the music and stop chasing the gear. I realize for many the gear is the...

Heya, 7+ years later, I'm still running the same setup. Just wanted to report in for anyone who ever read all this and wondered about the idea of end-game. With all things audio, we are often tempted to chase the last 1% as new things are released over the years. I've tried new things here and...

I'm still using the same setup. HE-500, re-cabled, straight into the Emotiva. It's so good, I let go of virtually everything else and have not felt the need to upgrade since I started this thread many moons ago. :) Very best,

Well, I retired my old portable setup (Fuse!) and moved to the M3 now that it's plenty mature. I picked it up for $40 on Amazon. Inexpensive and good quality is hard to find these days, but Fiio just keeps pushing out great stuff. I'm not a total stickler when it comes to a portable device...

  Heya,   Correct, but the point is, you can mismatch either. Putting a 32ohm on a high impedance output amp (OTL tube) would also be poor. While putting a 600ohm on something with next to zero output impedance does nothing other than drop your overall volume, it doesn't help performance...

      Heya,   Sounds like the Beyer DT880 would be more up your ally. The DT990 has a lot of mid-bass, but not much more sub-bass. The DT880 has good bass anyways. Overall a better generalist. Get the 32ohm or 250ohm and call it a day, whatever it cheaper.   Impedance does not dictate...

Heya,   So a couple of things. First, colored headphones (bassy ones for example) will influence your video edits if you're also editing sound. Much like production in music, if you mix and edit on something very bassy, the result on someone else's end will be... very different. It's best to...

Heya,   You'd probably get a little better explanations and activity in the Sound Science forum.   What you're referring to compared to a speaker system has to do with physical location of drivers, direction of the sound waves/pressure, and the location of your two ears relative to source...

  Heya,   I'd say try something like a Beyer DT880 32ohm or an AudioTechnica AD900X or similar.   Very best,