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ahnafakeef,
look for used amps.
These headphones can be "end game". I brought them this month, and I am pretty sure am on my way to getting used to them so bad, that nothing else will sound good.
first things first,
I see that you have 14 posts here. Now, don't mind, I don't know your audio history. Gear used/experienced.
Please dont mind this, but if you havent had much experience, you "might" not be able to appreciate what these is all about.
You have limited funds, get a decent pair of phones and a good source, save the rest. Learn your way through or something. Come back when you have enough funds & experience. I will explain why.
When you get the phones, and cannot power them up properly, you do not take them to the eargasmic levels. Granted the power they are advertised at will melt your brain, if you listen at those levels, but do not settle with them without a decent amp. I have had earphones open up beautifully with an amp. Its quite simple, these transducers need power to be tamed. More power will almost always (with properly designed amps) mean less distortion.
The bass on these is killing. and I will tell you to your relief that they sound sweet from my Mini^3 amp. But that wont get you even close to what these can do. Seriously.
I got them used at 700 USD and a Used Schiit Lyr for another 300. Put in more money, and got myself a DAC, the AudioGD nfb 15. The setup is a fine, fine setup, and blows my older setups (all portable) out. The presentation is so beautifully different. Its natural. These are detailed too. They will sound more real than anything you have listened to before, i can assure you. I have heard stuff on them (bass, bass i heard, people) that I wouldn't normally hear on my RE272 or TF10. No sir. I heard footsteps in a movie, they were not focused on the performer moving, but these reproduced the sound so so so very naturally, I got scared thinking someone was home (i was home alone). Every now and then I have to move my headphones off to make sure it wasn't an intruder.
And. Laptop audio is almost universally ****ty. Don't go that way. If nothing, an O2 "might" sound "ok". Nothing mind blowing. Do not dismiss them without listening to them properly.
P.S. This is all my opinion, people, please don't get pi**ed off.
Regards