Quote:   If you want to scream "WOW" while your jaw reaches your shoes, try this: http://www.musicarch.net/weiss-medea/   Some consider this the best DAC available today..

Anyways… after a year of exploration, sonically wiser, can the OP now find the reason that people buy expensive DACs?

Quote: Thanks Larry, that was really informative.. I ll definitely go for the DACport in the end.. I will mainly use it in the office which means no much need for iPhone use.. Its also half the price from Pico DAC which makes it more attractive to me. Small enough too to lock it in the...

Quote: I cant believe I accidentally gave you a thumbs up!! lol anyway, lets stop here. Back to ES5.  

Quote: Thats irrelevant cooperwc, I dont think anyone cares. You can say Im the madman from the Nietzsche's book "Gay Science" screaming "Audiophillia is dead!"   Just a philosophical joke..  

Quote:   Of course I am not talking about these people. I am talking for the ones that are clearly satisfied with their DAP and think that they will find their ideal audio just by buyig one more pair of headphones.  I suspect that there are many people that they are building their...

  Quote:     Anyways I didn't want to keep on going with the same matter, but after some extended search in the forum I found that the whole philosophy in headfi has changed since the last time I was active. Threads like these...

Thanks for your suggestions Anouk, Sorry if my comments sounded condescending. I apologise for that. I completely agree that each one enjoys music with different ways. Money don't matter when we are talking about pure music enjoyment. The enjoyment I have got several years ago before I come into...

Quote: I think you are right b0ck3n. Lets not continue that.. its a bit silly ;) I cant wait to share my opinion about them with you!

Quote:   Maveric, I believe that the trend of our times is people to buy a really expensive pair of headphones, run it from cheap sources and just save money to buy a better pair, because they feel that they are satisfied from the sound of their sources and blame for everything else the...

Thanks for your insightful response HA :) The Centrance DACport is really tempting! Is it possible to describe me the difference of sound between this and the Pico DAC when you are using them with the ES5?? Thanks again..

Quote: b0ck3n, I really respect all the users in this thread. I didn't try to offend anyone (well till now), In contrast I think you try to offend me stating about my golden ears as a response to just a question based on facts. A stance like yours led me do such a comment in first place...

Thanks so much for your response! I hope in the end I will not end up creating a second rig in the office just for the headphones… But .. well we are crazy here… Its gonna be the only desk with dac /amp and thick cables! all around!!   Thanks again for your responses guys! Im going to keep...

I havent heard the whipmod so I cant disagree with what you said.. But dont we still talk about non upsampling DAC? Can it handle high resolution files? Personally I find a huge difference between 44 and 192 Khz.. Isn't just that limiting such headphones?   Quote:  

  Hello all.. I had been a member to Head-Fi for years but about 5 years ago I decided to do the transition to speakers, and I just left the headphone hobby for a long time…    Now that I am working in a really loud office with a lot of irritating people talking all the time, I started...