NickFox
New Head-Fier
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I guess my real question is should I get the HD 600s and an e9 OR e10 or the HD 598s and an e10? I will probably never upgrade; I couldn't justify spending any more money on a setup unless I was super rich. Maybe, just maybe if I got the e9, I would buy an e17 in the distant future; but if the HD 600s will sound good with the e10, then I will not buy better headphones, an amp, or DAC for many years.
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Well I stream from Spotify (ogg vorbis 160kbps) and I'm on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I heard macs have good DACs. So if I don't need a DAC, I'll definitely get an e9.
And contrary to some opinion, I personally find the 300 ohm HD600s relatively easy to drive. They scale well with better amps - but the E10 again would do fine as a starter. To give you an example of how easy they are to drive - they are quite loud straight out of an iPhone4 (no amp) at 60% volume - and the dynamics aren't totally missing. Are they driven well out of the iPod ....... not anywhere near as well as they can be - but for someone on a budget, the HD600 is one heck of a headphone which you can then scale up with better dacs and amps later.
I guess my real question is should I get the HD 600s and an e9 OR e10 or the HD 598s and an e10? I will probably never upgrade; I couldn't justify spending any more money on a setup unless I was super rich. Maybe, just maybe if I got the e9, I would buy an e17 in the distant future; but if the HD 600s will sound good with the e10, then I will not buy better headphones, an amp, or DAC for many years.
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Sorry if I missed this, but what is the source of your music? A PC with a sound card or a laptop? If all you have if a headphone out then having something like an E17 that you can connect by USB will result in a cleaner sound. If you have a PC with decent onboard audio, then for your purposes the DAC wouldn't be so important and you could put more of the money towards the headphones.
Well I stream from Spotify (ogg vorbis 160kbps) and I'm on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I heard macs have good DACs. So if I don't need a DAC, I'll definitely get an e9.