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Headphoneus Supremus
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I've gotten into my headphones in a pretty big way recently, and in the last three months i've gone from owning a pair of sony MDR-V700s (I know, I know) to having 3 pairs of headphones, a sonica, a pimeta, a PPA with AOS DAC and diamond buffer, Shure E3s on order, plus misc and shipping for a total of about US$2000. Now that's a pretty insane amount of cash to spend in such as short time on listening to music, when most people are happy with a pair of cheap headphones out of their PC at work. I just paid for a holiday in Australia for myself and my girlfriend and that cost a lot less than all that gear!
Sure, my system sounds pretty good, but now i'm listening to my 271s running out of my PC, and even this simple setup sounds reasonably nice. It doesn't have quite the clarity or highs of the PPA/CD3K combo, but it's 80% of the way there for about 20% of the cost. Also, the CD3K just can't match the bass slam of the 271s, and if I connected the 271s to the PPA they'd sound even better.
I'm seriously considering selling my brand new PPA, CD3Ks, and possibly the pimeta, and just getting some decent mid to high range closed cans. I'm still not sure what the ideal compromise headphone is, perhaps Beyer 250-80s or 250-250s, and running them out of my sonica/pimeta.
sigh i'm just thinking that having so much money tied up in this stuff isn't the best investment I could make. On top of that the CD3Ks bass is a little dissappointing (the clarity's fantastic) and the PPA/DAC really didn't make much difference to the soud quality. Sure, I can afford it, but it seems kinda silly. At least most of that gear will hold it's value on the 2nd hand market reasonably well.
Thanks for listening to my rant, have a nice day
Sure, my system sounds pretty good, but now i'm listening to my 271s running out of my PC, and even this simple setup sounds reasonably nice. It doesn't have quite the clarity or highs of the PPA/CD3K combo, but it's 80% of the way there for about 20% of the cost. Also, the CD3K just can't match the bass slam of the 271s, and if I connected the 271s to the PPA they'd sound even better.
I'm seriously considering selling my brand new PPA, CD3Ks, and possibly the pimeta, and just getting some decent mid to high range closed cans. I'm still not sure what the ideal compromise headphone is, perhaps Beyer 250-80s or 250-250s, and running them out of my sonica/pimeta.
sigh i'm just thinking that having so much money tied up in this stuff isn't the best investment I could make. On top of that the CD3Ks bass is a little dissappointing (the clarity's fantastic) and the PPA/DAC really didn't make much difference to the soud quality. Sure, I can afford it, but it seems kinda silly. At least most of that gear will hold it's value on the 2nd hand market reasonably well.
Thanks for listening to my rant, have a nice day