And they all sound the same....

Save your cash till you get a convincing blind test or two that agree they are worth the cash. Preferably double blind test but we know that ain't happening in hifi.

Drives my audeze LCD3, LCDxc and LCD4 well

Yeah I just Figured something so stupid had to have an entertaining explanation

Please explain why

Would you like a hug Texx with two x's? Xxx

so it is a label granted for participation!

So "Headphoneus Supremus" is a label granted for participation?

The scientific hypothesis testing method has the concept of errors built in: "A type I error (false-positive) occurs if an investigator rejects a null hypothesis that is actually true in the population; a type II error (false-negative) occurs if the investigator fails to reject a null hypothesis...

It's not beyond doubt. look up type 1 and type 2 errors.

The solution is simple. Blind listening tests. I look forward to hearing your findings.

Please don't use my position on mental illness to support your unfounded claims about 24/16 bit and your unwillingness to understand placebo

Respectfully I doubt any of you are qualified to diagnose mental illness and even if you are this forum doesn't provide the right therapist-patient interaction to do so. Also, people are more than capable of being morons, or even just wrong or ignorant here without having a mental illness. And...

Looks like the consensus is 24 bit and 16 bit aren't audibly different

Illusion and perception are two different things. An illusion is something that misleads what you perceive.

Dunning kruger effect is real and has been empirically demonstrated.

People with good ears still fall for placebo. Blind testing lets you show what good ears can really do.

1) placebo is obvious, just like real differences can be obvious. Obvious does not necessarily equal real. 2) what failures does blind testing have?

A subjectivist can eliminate placebo. It's simple. Use blind testing/listening.

Try chord mojo 2

Great explanation

I have burson conductor 3x and sparkos aries head amps. I've found opamps plug and play pretty much. but just be careful.

I have two versions of the burson op amps and the sparkos op amps, you can tune either the burson head amps or the sparkos head amps as you like with them. Then I have a quest dac and a mojo 2 I can't help but think it's all about personal preference and nothing to do with accuracy. all these...

im not trying to brag, i just have the burson in my lounge room and the sparkos/qutest in my home office. and Mojo 2 for portable/car. currently I'm unemployed so I'm not upgrading anytime soon

I have a burson conductor 3x. it is sublime. the sparkos arise fed by a chord qutest is slightly better, but I'm not sure its worth the money, the burson is amazing value