Thanks for the replies people. In the end I got myself an Audiolab M-DAC Mini for use as a headphone amp in my man cave/office, that supports high-res audio via the USB connection to my laptop. I stream Tidal Hi-Fi and get great results, along with FLAC files I have downloaded. No compression...

Not sure if posting in the right place so mods feel free to move if necessary. Is anybody on here using this amp mostly (or even exclusively) as a headphone amp? If so, what are your opinions of it? It has had favourable reviews in this regard from the hi-fi press but interested to know if any...

I'll probably get flamed on here for saying this, but I recently got myself a set of HD-280 Pro Silver 'phones, and for what I use them for - which is guitar practise mostly, and some computer listening - I think they're great. For these uses, I already actually prefer them to the HD-25's -...

I am a big fan of the HD25 headphones, having had mine for just over a year now. I use them mainly when practising guitar late at night. The first thing I did though was change the pads to velour ones (I think this is standard on the newer, updated HD25-II) and switch the cable to a HD580...

I am a big fan of the HD25 headphones, having had mine for just over a year now. I use them mainly when practising guitar late at night. The first thing I did though was change the pads to velour ones (I think this is standard on the newer, updated HD25-II) and switch the cable to a HD580...