Good choice       I have purchased quite a few more expensive "better" headphones but I choose to run with my HD650. It's seriously giving the HD800 and Audeze LCD's and he6's a run for their money. My HD650s are just as resolving as an HD800, except it doesn't have as big of a...

a vacuum tube takes a lot of power to do it's job, and most "hybrid" tube amps out there have low plate voltages and the tubes aren't really doing anything besides glowing. Also so many tube amps out there sound so much like SS amps, it just doesn't make any sense to buy them when you can get an...

if you want to throw your money away that's fine, just don't be shocked when you hear there are amps that do just as good if not better than what you got at the fraction of the price :)

Get the littledot mk2, the valhalla 2 is meant to sound like an ss amp,  it even says on schiits own website       many would say that the valhalla 2 nor the vali 2 are not true tube amps.... many would also say that schiit products are complete bullschiit....but i didn't say it!     ...

lol xD

650hd's are the most pleasurable and comfortable sounding open back headphones out there. 650hd's scale amazingly with better dacs and amp. odac is the best dac of all time, anything that sounds different is doing something wrong. o2 sounds just as good or better than amps costing over a...

i got the red/black k7xxs from the last drop, only used them a couple hours, they are comfy and sound good -  but the sound signature  is not for me. anyone want to buy mine? i can do 190 shipped.

the best dac/amp on the planet didn't do it for you? literally nothing from aune even comes close to the o2odac.

Best dac/amp on the planet at the best price (~300$)   o2odac. anything else worth buying will sound exactly the same and will usually cost over 1 thousand dollars. We are beyond lucky that the o2odac even exists and that we can buy it for 300$ - does not make sense to buy anything else.

littledot I+ is one of the most respected tube amps out there for low impedance headphones and its only 115$ right now on amazon. the vali 2 at 169$+shipping well... like all schiit products besides the sys, it's over-hyped overpriced bullschiit marketed to seem like the best thing for the...

Massdrop magic: -commit to buy something without knowing if you will like it -no returns -wait forever and a day for it to come -save 20$ headphones are the one of the last things i would buy from massdrop, simply because they are so subjective and you should really try them before you buy...

Get an o2odac. It's the best dac amp on the planet, and anything else worth buying is going to sound exactly like it and cost over a thousand dollars. O2odac is virtuality the only DAC/amp that does what a DAC/amp is supposed to do. The DAC gives a clean conversion with minimum distortion, and...

i changed my avatar for these headphones - i really want to see these cans start a revolution and piss off every treble lover on the planet!!! tbh im not a fan of hawks cus they are predator birds and my best friend on this planet is literally a parakeet, and nighthawks eat smaller birds, but...

its nice to see audiophile headphones like the nighthawks, seems like most audiophiles out there are treble lovers, and im very much anti treble - so its nice to see cans made for people like me :D JOIN THE DARK SIDE!! 

so i got to try these today....omg wow. honestly, i was among the people that would never buy anything from a company that sells 1000$+ hdmi cables... but these nighthawks are legit. they sound warm and soothing like my 650s, but i can actually wear them! (the 650s are quite uncomfortable imo)...

  Actually you got it backwards - these days higher end tube amps are for the most part designed to sound neutral - almost indistinguishable from an o2 minus the fancy glow depending how good you are at lying to yourself. Sorry, but I'm just severely allergic to BS and I gotta call a spade a...

i'm saying this because i have been through where you are right now,  and it's going to piss people off - but whatever: tubes are obsolete, which is why they aren't common now, not because "engineers these days are stupid" - and a lot of that nos stuff marketed is complete snail oil. I'm not a...

Read my post again: I said that price DOES NOT equal quality.     I have several dac/amps, but even with a simple o2odac or schiit stack you can make the ma-900s sing. You don't need a super fancy amp or dac, they are very low impedance, but it's best to at least have a good transparent dac...

      You guys aren't giving the ma900s enough credit. In headphones, like with many things in life, price ≠ quality. I own several headphones, including ma900 and 650hd; the ma900s are one of my most used, and I agree the hd650 are going to be a living hell for people with an oval shaped...

looking at closed headphones now cus i do like leather/memory foam feel and the way i see it - no matter how good a set of cans are considered, if it is not comfortable enough to wear for more than 20 minutes then there i 0 point in getting it- how are the sony mdr-1a for gaming and music?   ...

cool thanks a lot :D i saw z's review of the he400s, and i saw that he recommended changing the pads! i also like how hifiman added a cheaper headphone cus i been wanting a hifiman headphone for a while to see what all the fuss is about. maybe its worth a try! how are the 400i's? are they warm...

cant believe i am asking this, but i need help!   basically the first "hifi" headphones i got were the 598hd, but i could tell right away they were not for me because the sharpness really hurt me!! so then i opted for the 650hd which is warmer - and i love them BUT the clamp force is driving...

  Actually the 650s are headphones that people buy, then always come back to, even after trying planars and electrostatics. 

  no dac/amp is going to magically add all kinds of new sounds and "details" to your music. It's only going to play what is already there. Now you've seen for yourself after spending over a thousand bucks on a dac/amp. i've said it before and i'll say it again, if a dac/amp sounds different...

i used to be a huge kanye fan, even liked yeezus, but Imo tlop was corny as fuark. every other track felt like a filler, and even his "main songs" had only had like 1 verse each. It's like he didn't even try, and the way he made it sound like he was going for a gospel album, but kept putting...