Quote: No, it's not silly. You'll have the better result buying a 1000$ heaphones with 350$ amp and 350$ DAC than buying 600$ heaphones, 600$ amp, 600$ DAC. The source makes the tiniest difference IMO, and even the amp is not that big of a deal in headphones, as long as you can drive it...

Quote: Have you tried them both, I mean the O2 and M-Stage? The O2 is about 70% of the price of the M-Stage so it seems like a side step, at best. I may be wrong, though. Anyway, I planned on selling my M-Stage and HD650 to buy the Schiit Bitfrost + Lyr. I might reconsider if someone have...

Two days ago, I saw an ad of someone selling used LCD-2 Rev.1. Yesterday, I just went ahead and bought them, so I'm now part of the club. This is my set up right now : straight from the laptop -> Matrix M-Stage -> LCD-2. I'll probably buy Schiit Bitfrost - or something in this price range - by...

Quote: With that kind of budget, I would go with either Sennheiser HD650 or HD600 with an amp like Matrix M-Stage. And if you still have some decent money left, you could throw the rest at a DAC in this price range. By the way, I don't think this is really a "summit-fi" :p

I almost forgot: In the mood for love - Umebayashi The main theme is just that good.

Opening a movie with this kind of scene... I was just speechless. So provocative, so dramatic, yet so beautiful. The music just complements the visuals perfectly. A lot of nice camera effect, it's just so good.       The dramatic music with such beautiful landscape is just paradoxal...

I'll share my 2 cents. These are my favorites, but I don't know how they are as stand alone albums, but it's some of the best visuals-music match, in my opinion. Also, it's a shame that most of the movies mentionned are some hollywood's junk.   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Morricone...

My favourite Pink Floyd would be in this order : WYWH -> Animals -> Meddle -> DSOTM  -> The Wall -> Division Bell

I will post some obvious.   Genesis : Their early albums, everyhing before "Wind and Wuthering". Porcupine Tree : It's a bit more heavy, but you might like it. Radiohead : Almost everything, but give each album a few tries, it takes time to appreciate. Black Sabbath : "Paranoid...

http://www.lastfm.fr/user/VinchatD   I do not have any friend yet. I do not know anyone in real life who uses last.fm. Thank you in advance, OP.

I've always had problems when people use the term overrated. It's really like you have the pretention of be the "know-it-all" person. Calling someone overrated when he has been a major influence in rock music, that he is an idol and a model of a lot of good drummers, and that he is an a...

Quote: Seriously, have you ever tried all these headphones you are mentionning? You're saying they are not warm nor fun, based on reviews. Are you kidding me? You seem to be shooting things without even knowing what you are talking about. There are a lot of piece of audio that are...

Quote:     When you listen to headphones, expecially if you are new to this, I wouldn't suggest listening to new songs. Listen to songs that you know well, that you've listened a lot.  As I said, you ought to test the D770 before buying them to see if it's what you are looking...

Quote: He said that he listens to rap, rb&b and pop and he sould definitely not go into the grados line. Grados are really good for metal and rock, good for instrumental music and are underperforming for electronic music. It will just sound wrong compared with their competition for the...

Quote: If I were you, I would try to find a local store near and try different headphone pair. It's pretty difficult to know what you would like you don't test it, especially that sparkly vocal or well defined bass for us might not be the same thing for you.   Quote: Well...

Hi, I think that when you buy a pair of good headphones, it is because you want good music production; you want it to sound real, like in a concert. When you listen to pop music, there is not as much improvement as in jazz or rock because it is not always decently mastered and there's alot of...

My speaker set up. Rega P3 -> Naim Nait 5i-2 -> Proac D18   I really love it! Really natural with an impressive amount of bass, really tight and controled. The mids are really good, hearing singing some of my favorite folk singers is just so pleasing.   I might upgrade the amp this...

In my opinion, the wattage on amplifier is pretty misleading. If it says that the required wattage is 40-125watt for you speakers, I would try any amp in that range. I've heard several amps, and many amp with lower wattage went to higher volume, had more life in the music (organic feel), and...

Here is my list! -Matrix M-Stage -Sennheiser HD-650 -Proac D18 -Naim Nait 5i-2 -Rega P3   I guess that it's not so bad for a 18 years old student ^^. Next year will most likely be less crazy than this one.

I gave tea to my mother and a blu-ray player to my father. I received money, a stanley kubrick's book, american psycho book, several dvds and blu-rays and a few xbox/ps3 games.

I'm bumping this topic because I have some more questions! I was wondering if a grado wood platinum1 would be a good match for the rega P3. I've read a bit about this cartridge and some people seem to love it while some other say that there is some "hum". Anyone ever heard this combo?  ...

Hi! Recently I started a speaker set up. As for now it consists of naim nait 5i-2 and proac d-18. I'm now looking for an analog source. My budget is about 1000$. I'm really wondering what percentage of my budget should go for my turntable/cartridge/phonostage. A local dealer of mine has a...

I already bought the speakers and they almost sound as great as in the demo room that was treated! In my room they still sound better than the other speakers that I tried. Quote:  

Well, I think I have an idea of wether or not the OP is able to treat his room. I am the OP... :P   Quote:  

Well, I don't think that the ferrari analogy is really approriate. It would be more like having a ferrari with not so good tired. You would still get the driving experience, it would be much better than the car of a 10th of the price, but you wouldn't the ferrari to its full potential. Actually...