Canadian411
Headphoneus Supremus
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The HE1K, LCD4, Utopia, SR009 club is a very silly thing. If I ever do get a high quality power amp for HE6, it would be at the same time as I get good speakers—not before. The aspirational pricing will be death to high-end audio, but take heart: Apple has just discontinued the solid gold $10,000-17,000 Apple Watch, presumably because it wasn't selling enough to justify the huge price tag (and, hopefully, because catering to the well-heeled damages a brand). Vote with your wallets! 2K should be a ruthlessly enforced ceiling on prices—and for most, 1K.
Well everyone is different, for some $4k is nothing but pocket change. I learned my lesson after spending thousands in headphones, I felt that the value isn't there.
Speakers are really catching up nowdays, if you get a chance audition PSB T3 or Martin Logan flagships (Maybe CLX or Masterpiece Serie ESL) you will not go back to headphone. And nothing beats JL Fantom f113v2 or Gotham v3 in sub division.
All I am saying if you already own Abyss, Utipia, LCD4, SR009 etc with that money you can do lot better in loud speaker setup.
My cheap or poor man's theather setup (Martin Logan Motion 60xt, 40s rear, Dual SVS SB13) sounds lot better than any flagship headphones that I owned.
Again, everyone is different, just my opinion.