Did anyone here get the custom calibration done? The service where you have to send Sonarworks your set of headphone and they tailor a profile specifically for them.   If so, could you please do me a favor and switch between the custom profile and the average profile that ships with the...

DAC's aside, where do you guys stand on the amp issue? Is the distortion that the tube brings worth it over something really accurate and solid state?

Isn't 100% related? That was TOTALLY related! :) When he said he couldn't tell the difference between almost any decent modern DAC, that was exactly what I thought but needed to confirm from an independent test! Not to mention - as you said - it was a pretty fun watch. When he pointed to that...

Could you weigh-in on something I recently read? It seems to fly right in the face of what you said.   http://www.head-fi.org/t/643368/schiit-modi-and-magni-comparison-to-bifrost-and-asgard   He compared not just the cheaper Modi to the more expensive Bifrost, but even used the less/more...

Not being a huge headphone enthusiast, if I was blindfolded and listened to the Modi 2 and Bifrost DAC's back-to-back, would I reasonably be able to hear the extra few hundred $ worth of DAC-ness? ...or is the real noticeable stuff reproduced by the amp and headphones themselves?

I'm no headphone expert by any stretch, but I've been doing a few weeks worth of research before making this thread, and the best I've been able to come up with for my budget are some HD650's fed by a Schiit Modi 2 Uber DAC and their Valhalla 2 amp. I heard those Senn's like tubes, which is why...