I never told anyone that his or her ears were wrong. Everyone experiences sound differently, which is what makes it often difficult to determine what headphone gives what kind of sound. Or how much influence an amp has on the sound. Measurements are sort of a neutral ground, but, to me at least...

I didn't think your reply was aimed at Bob, and I found the irony in Fearless1's reply quite amusing as well.   I can understand someone getting such an expensive amp because they get a good feeling from it, in this case most likely from both the sound and the looks. I can understand buying...

Quote: I hadn't looked up the price, but $2400 for a headphone amp is too much for me. I draw the line at €1500, which is about what my speaker amplifier cost, and they power a pair of hard to drive floorstanding speakers (4 Ohm). A headphone amp that costs even half that must be pretty...

Not that many meets over here in Europe. The problem I have with frequency response graphs is that I can find one for a headphone that I like, but then there will be a similar looking one for another headphone that I don't like. The additional graphs for step response that they make at...

I have plenty of skepticism, but if you're just starting, you have no reference and it's hard to know which snippets of information actually apply to you. A quick scan of any audio equipment thread may yield many people that assert that this piece of equipment has a neutral sound signature, but...

I don't know if you'd need a quality DAC, there doesn't seem to be much sound quality difference between the different DACs that I've tried, mostly in sound signature. A good amp can be useful, if you have hard to drive headphones. Or if your DAP has a really weak amp section. But there seems...

Separate amping you mean? Then no, I either run them directly from my iBasso DX90, or from the headphone out of my NAD speaker amp, which is connected to the digital out of my PC (normally used for my speakers). Between the two I can detect no difference in detail, though there is a slight...

It's a sound way to approach audio, though I've given up trying to be a moderating influence on people on Head-Fi; people will do as they do, and trying to convince them otherwise when they don't want to be convinced is fairly pointless.   I totally agree that the HD600 and some other...

With IEMs, I was basically forced to use the headphone out on my DAP. Line out from the DAP and low gain on the Pure II, I'd need very fine adjustments to get from "can't hear" to "too loud". But if I'd use the headphone out, I'd be double amping, and what would be the point of that (aside from...

Top 3 bands? Don't know as I can list them, though depends on the criteria, I suppose. Top 3 songs I could probably list, because I like specific songs. Bands make some good songs, some not so good, and, most of the time, some I dislike, so it's hard to pick a favourite band for me.

The Pure II that I had, had a definite ground loop hum if I listened to it while it was charging. Or if the DAP it was hooked up to was charging. That last one was pretty weird, I wouldn't have expected the DAP charging or not to have been able to make a difference.   To turn Wuthoqquan's...

Yeah, that always throws me off as well

Music from that far back, why not just get a CD and rip that? Or vinyl, if you have the gear to rip that.   Maybe I'm just cynical, or maybe I just think that most record labels are merely money grubbing weasels, but it makes me think that they don't want to tell you that they just...

You've basically described my whole issue with the HD tracks, and I don't think you're missing something.   It would be nice to know before buying if the tracks were anything other than just an upsampled version of the CD release. After all, what is the point of getting high bitrate and high...