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Help with a new setup for $1500
Thank you mtkversion and estreeter, I think I'm gonna go with Q701s with Schiit's Bifrost and Asgard combo. I guess Sennheiser's HD650 are a better match (and I want to get a Beyer having read that they are very clinical) but I remember reading that AKGs also being a quite good match for...- ablckn
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Help with a new setup for $1500
Ok, digging through loads of material these past days and a brief exchange with Jason Stoddard of Schiit fame (who told me to spend my money on good headphones first), I've decided to go with AKG Q 701 as my headphone of choice (this is simply because they offer the most bang for the buck...- ablckn
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Help with a new setup for $1500
Thanks a million again for your response. You're right about the Schiit amps, only the higher end ($450) Lyrr model seems to have RCA outputs, but would it be OK if I connected A5+ (or I have just discovered Emotive Pro airmotiv5) to the DAC? The turntables which I have been eyeballing are...- ablckn
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Help with a new setup for $1500
Thank you so much for your response, I'll be sharing an apartment so maybe I should decide until after I lived there a couple of weeks. My gripe with going with an Audioengine set is that as I've said, I'll definitely buy a turntable in the near future so I'll be needing an amp. I'm not...- ablckn
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Help with a new setup for $1500
I'll be moving to US next week to start my PhD program and I'll be building a new system from the ground up. I managed to save around $700-800 and I'm looking for budget components. I will only be bringing my laptop (an early 2011 macbook pro 13'') with, so I thought I would only be needing a...- ablckn
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