I never told anyone that his or her ears were wrong. Everyone experiences sound differently, which is what makes it often difficult to determine what headphone gives what kind of sound. Or how much influence an amp has on the sound. Measurements are sort of a neutral ground, but, to me at least...

I didn't think your reply was aimed at Bob, and I found the irony in Fearless1's reply quite amusing as well.   I can understand someone getting such an expensive amp because they get a good feeling from it, in this case most likely from both the sound and the looks. I can understand buying...

Quote: I hadn't looked up the price, but $2400 for a headphone amp is too much for me. I draw the line at €1500, which is about what my speaker amplifier cost, and they power a pair of hard to drive floorstanding speakers (4 Ohm). A headphone amp that costs even half that must be pretty...

Not that many meets over here in Europe. The problem I have with frequency response graphs is that I can find one for a headphone that I like, but then there will be a similar looking one for another headphone that I don't like. The additional graphs for step response that they make at...

I have plenty of skepticism, but if you're just starting, you have no reference and it's hard to know which snippets of information actually apply to you. A quick scan of any audio equipment thread may yield many people that assert that this piece of equipment has a neutral sound signature, but...

I don't know if you'd need a quality DAC, there doesn't seem to be much sound quality difference between the different DACs that I've tried, mostly in sound signature. A good amp can be useful, if you have hard to drive headphones. Or if your DAP has a really weak amp section. But there seems...

Separate amping you mean? Then no, I either run them directly from my iBasso DX90, or from the headphone out of my NAD speaker amp, which is connected to the digital out of my PC (normally used for my speakers). Between the two I can detect no difference in detail, though there is a slight...

It's a sound way to approach audio, though I've given up trying to be a moderating influence on people on Head-Fi; people will do as they do, and trying to convince them otherwise when they don't want to be convinced is fairly pointless.   I totally agree that the HD600 and some other...

With IEMs, I was basically forced to use the headphone out on my DAP. Line out from the DAP and low gain on the Pure II, I'd need very fine adjustments to get from "can't hear" to "too loud". But if I'd use the headphone out, I'd be double amping, and what would be the point of that (aside from...

Top 3 bands? Don't know as I can list them, though depends on the criteria, I suppose. Top 3 songs I could probably list, because I like specific songs. Bands make some good songs, some not so good, and, most of the time, some I dislike, so it's hard to pick a favourite band for me.

The Pure II that I had, had a definite ground loop hum if I listened to it while it was charging. Or if the DAP it was hooked up to was charging. That last one was pretty weird, I wouldn't have expected the DAP charging or not to have been able to make a difference.   To turn Wuthoqquan's...

Yeah, that always throws me off as well

Music from that far back, why not just get a CD and rip that? Or vinyl, if you have the gear to rip that.   Maybe I'm just cynical, or maybe I just think that most record labels are merely money grubbing weasels, but it makes me think that they don't want to tell you that they just...

You've basically described my whole issue with the HD tracks, and I don't think you're missing something.   It would be nice to know before buying if the tracks were anything other than just an upsampled version of the CD release. After all, what is the point of getting high bitrate and high...

My first experience in metal was listening to a tape from a friend with some Slayer, Sepultura and Napalm Death. The Slayer stuff was ok, but not too rivetting, Napalm Death was kinda 'out there', though I still remember Pride Assassin quite well. The real kicker for me was Chaos AD from...

We're all making some rather sweeping statements (myself included), because there are as many preferences as there are people. For myself, I would think the HE-560s are pretty good for EDM or similar music. Just a little bit of extra thump to make it a bit more juicy, but not too much.

Quote: Planars may be good for metal, if your tastes go that way. I can't imagine a headphone with rolled off treble to be good for metal, though. Sure, it would smoothen out the wrinkles of bad mastering or poor recordings, but on the other hand, I like my metal to sound aggressive.  ...

The numbers will only tell you what volume you might be able to reach with a specific amp. But unless you want to get hearing damage, it's usually not really relevant. To me, it's more important that the signal is well controlled.   @yangian: Your HD650 may need burn-in, yes. I've not listened...

Well-mastered Fear Factory? That's novel (to me). How's the new album? I liked the older stuff like Demanufacture, Obsolete and Digimortal, but found the newer stuff only mildly interesting.

I suppose the difference is also because the HD800 is produced in Europe, whereas the LCDs is produced in the US. Similarly, the HE-560 is a budget option in the US, but over here it costs nearly as much as the HD800 (€ 950). It sometimes leads to interesting discussions, though, where for...

Quote: I haven't heard the LCD-X, but at more than double the price of my HD800 (€1079 vs €2195), it must be pretty amazing. The thing is, though, that I had the HE-560 as well, but it felt to me like the bass was making it just sound a bit muddy. The detail was actually there, but to my...

Indeed. In that respect, I'm glad that the B&W diamond series didn't really do that much for me. Not that my floorstanders are not expensive, but at least not nearly that expensive

I generally like the HD800 - and yes, also for metal - but it would be better if there wasn't a peak in the treble. It's alright for me most of the time, partly also because I tend to listen at low volumes, but it can become quite uncomfortable at higher volumes (depending on the track, of...

Sure, room acoustics and room size are extra complications when listening to speakers. But comfort issues are also an extra complication for headphones. And frequency response issues is the main reason I haven't really found a headphone that I like as much as my speakers. It's appears to be...