ArcticPete
New Head-Fier
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Hi, all. First post in here. I think I've frequented this site for the past year or so, since I decided to sell my hifi and move to headphones completely. Of all the different forums on different topics, I find Head-Fi as the most serious one I've come across. My initial motivation for that was to run away from the constant upgraditis I had in regards to my setup. But I have of course since then learned that this is something I will live with, whether it's hifi or head-fi. But a practical reason is that I am, at 33, going back to Uni to get my masters, after having a good job for years. I will thus be living in a much smaller apartment. I do have Sennheiser HD 25-1 II's for my iPod, but don't see them as a long term solution.
My hifi setup is a Marantz Pm8003/CD6003 combo with Dynaudio 2/6. It gives me a tight bass with a quite sweet mid. They sound the best when I'm listening to jazz and acoustic music. Not that I don't listen to other genres. Classic rock is widely represented among my cd's as well as some prog-rock. Electronica is something that I've started to listen to in the past couple of years. I think that genre-wise, heavy-metal is the only genre I don't get. Based on that I'd say that the sound I'd want is a well defined bass, a little emphasis on the mids and a detailed treble that's not tinny and tiring.
Don't know whether that's some utopia for my price range. For headphones I don't see myself going above $500. The brands that are available for me are AKG, Audio Technica, Beyer Dynamic, Grado, Shure and Sennheiser. And it's al online as we don't have any retailers that sell anything other than glittery 5.1 sorround setups.
If I keep my cd player - which also doubles as a DAC for my iPod, I could budget for an amp only. I don't think I can get any higher than $300-400. If I do sell my cd player I'd need to split that amount for both amp and dac.
I hope that wasn't too long and that you guys can give some pointers.
My hifi setup is a Marantz Pm8003/CD6003 combo with Dynaudio 2/6. It gives me a tight bass with a quite sweet mid. They sound the best when I'm listening to jazz and acoustic music. Not that I don't listen to other genres. Classic rock is widely represented among my cd's as well as some prog-rock. Electronica is something that I've started to listen to in the past couple of years. I think that genre-wise, heavy-metal is the only genre I don't get. Based on that I'd say that the sound I'd want is a well defined bass, a little emphasis on the mids and a detailed treble that's not tinny and tiring.
Don't know whether that's some utopia for my price range. For headphones I don't see myself going above $500. The brands that are available for me are AKG, Audio Technica, Beyer Dynamic, Grado, Shure and Sennheiser. And it's al online as we don't have any retailers that sell anything other than glittery 5.1 sorround setups.
If I keep my cd player - which also doubles as a DAC for my iPod, I could budget for an amp only. I don't think I can get any higher than $300-400. If I do sell my cd player I'd need to split that amount for both amp and dac.
I hope that wasn't too long and that you guys can give some pointers.