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    Amp for B&W DM550's

    I just bought some B&W DM550's off of Craigslist for $90. As I'm entirely set up for headphones other than these, I need an amp. My main reason to buy these was for sleep-time listening--HD580's are just a wee bit too big for comfortable listening in bed. The source will be 320kbps VBR...
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    Crossfeed for games?

    For first-person shooters and the like where sound positioning is key, would you turn on crossfeed (an older AirHead model feeding HD580's) or not? On the one hand crossfeed would muddy the signal; on the other, it would likely increase the realism of the way your ears perceive the signal. Or am...
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    Ok, fine, it was worth the money

    My 580's arrived today. At first I plugged them into my amp and they didn't sound that different from my Sony earbuds, and I was thinking, man, what? And then I listened for an hour, just sat and listening. It's amazing. I realized that one of my favorite recordings was a live recording when I...
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    n00b alert: What is pre-amping?

    Was playing around with the tube amp simulator in foobar and the pre-amp setting reminded me that I don't know what the heck pre-amping is. I assume it's a smaller amp that bumps up the signal before going into a larger amp in a speaker setup. I've never heard anything about pre-amping a...
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    Headphone dilemma (IEMs or HD580's)

    Hi everyone, For years I've been ripping my CD collection (mostly classical and pop, some jazz particularly trumpet) into 320Kbps MP3s using LAME in anticipation of having a high quality rig some day. Current set up is an iPod nano with the Sony $30 IEMs. The Sonys were a big step up from buds...
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    Amps at low volumes.

    Everyone says that amped headphones are much better, even for decent but not amazing cans. Is it just a volume thing? I don't like listening to music loud. At a given volume level, would the amped cans be noticably better? If so, why? Is it just that good cans are harder to drive (impedance...
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    Which Senn for unamped listening

    I know there was a thread on this recently, but that was on the 5x5's. My question is how's the HD 580 for unamped listening? Some background The Source: 320Kbps VBR well-ripped MP3's, either via iPod nano or by built-in sound from an IBM X22 The Music: Classical, some Jazz and Pop. The...
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