sml1226
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I've been listening to everything though my speaker setup. Headphones took a backseat. And as a result, I have no idea what my options are these days.
My V6 and my HD25 are both good at what I use them for, but that is not any kind of serious listening. They're more portable, or casual, background noise type listening.
I want something to provide some semblance of my speaker setup in an, "I can still listen to that at 3AM" package. I doubt my neighbors would be happy hearing much of any of my music blasting in the middle of the night.
Now, my audio chain in that speaker setup is one I don't expect anyone to have actually heard, but here it is anyway.
Schiit Modi 2 Uber / Rega RP1 w/ Bias 2 to Emotiva XPS-1
Trends PA-10.1D
Dynaco Mk III
Mordaunt-Short MS30i
Nothing incredible, but it's about perfect for my needs. I can't see another change any time soon there. I don't have anything for headphones that does anything like what that setup does for me.
Those speakers are a sealed box, 8" woofer, 1" silk dome tweeter. Sealed box kills off some extension, but I've always liked the way the bottom end rolls off in a sealed box. Being an 8" it does still reach pretty deep though, and it does it pretty well. Not as well as a good dedicated sub or full floorstanding speakers, but impressively well for what they are. And for the tweeter, it never feels dark or boring, but it's certainly no metal dome. I like that slightly tame, but not quite relaxed sound.
So I guess, from what little I'm legitimately aware of, I need a quick and clean bottom end and a tame top end, but not one toned down enough to be "dark." From what I gathered prior to disappearing from here, planar drivers were what I needed to be looking at next, but that has been years now. Outside of Audeze not being "Audez'e" any longer, I have no idea what's happened in the world of orthos. And I may not need orthos. I'm sure there are a ton of new dynamic cans out there worth looking at since I was last here.
I'm sort of expecting to stay on the cheaper end of things, but how cheap, I have no idea yet. Just curious regarding options at this point, as I'm totally lost in the headphone world again.
My V6 and my HD25 are both good at what I use them for, but that is not any kind of serious listening. They're more portable, or casual, background noise type listening.
I want something to provide some semblance of my speaker setup in an, "I can still listen to that at 3AM" package. I doubt my neighbors would be happy hearing much of any of my music blasting in the middle of the night.
Now, my audio chain in that speaker setup is one I don't expect anyone to have actually heard, but here it is anyway.
Schiit Modi 2 Uber / Rega RP1 w/ Bias 2 to Emotiva XPS-1
Trends PA-10.1D
Dynaco Mk III
Mordaunt-Short MS30i
Nothing incredible, but it's about perfect for my needs. I can't see another change any time soon there. I don't have anything for headphones that does anything like what that setup does for me.
Those speakers are a sealed box, 8" woofer, 1" silk dome tweeter. Sealed box kills off some extension, but I've always liked the way the bottom end rolls off in a sealed box. Being an 8" it does still reach pretty deep though, and it does it pretty well. Not as well as a good dedicated sub or full floorstanding speakers, but impressively well for what they are. And for the tweeter, it never feels dark or boring, but it's certainly no metal dome. I like that slightly tame, but not quite relaxed sound.
So I guess, from what little I'm legitimately aware of, I need a quick and clean bottom end and a tame top end, but not one toned down enough to be "dark." From what I gathered prior to disappearing from here, planar drivers were what I needed to be looking at next, but that has been years now. Outside of Audeze not being "Audez'e" any longer, I have no idea what's happened in the world of orthos. And I may not need orthos. I'm sure there are a ton of new dynamic cans out there worth looking at since I was last here.
I'm sort of expecting to stay on the cheaper end of things, but how cheap, I have no idea yet. Just curious regarding options at this point, as I'm totally lost in the headphone world again.