I've been eyeing the HD650s for a long time now, but everybody says you should get an amp to make them sound better. However a lot of portable amps are quite large and cost close to 300 if not more. One person recommended the bithead or airhead and those are priced quite nicely, and I like...

Ok, I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I do like the bass produced on the Bose triports. There's lots of hostility towards Bose products on these forums for some reason. Anyways, the point of me saying that is, the triports are very easy to drive. Are there other...

Ok, two part question actually. First one, I just tried the Shure 530 and personally I don't like the bass at all, it's just not punchy enough. Someone recommended the atrio m5. I looked it up on amazon and I saw there's a atrio m8 also. Is the m8 a better more refined version of the m5? Or just...

So I guess I should give a very brief background. I'm coming from the 20 dollar (on amazon) vmoda earphones. Love the bass on those, after all they're made for that purpose. Now, I ordered a pair of Shure 530s recently and when I initially tried them on I thought to myself...damn these things...