m12345
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Hello,
I'm very new to this and the last days I have spent ~5 hours reading in this forum. And I am very confused. Extremely confused. I don't have the time to spend hours and hours forming my own opinion. I wonder whether the forum people here could agree (agree ) on a couple of recommendations for certain budgets and certain requirements (please ). Also I've been searching for a FAQ on this site, to no avail. So far I've decided to buy a HD600, and, since it needs an amp, to also buy the ha-1 mkII. But I was very confused as to which other components I should buy, given that I have a $700 budget for these, and that I listen to music through headphones _exclusively_. (I read about better cables so I opted for those oehlbach cables.)
I see there are threads on questions like "portables + x + y + ... + headphones, vs stationary players". (I felt this was a slightly different issue so I opened a new thread other than the portable vs. stationary thread at http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67899, but note the similarities) I get confused about "line-out", "digital-analog-converters" (yes I am new and I didn't find a faq , blame me if I overlooked one), and all sorts of things to keep in mind, and additional devices, and insiders arguing about questions that are in fact of relevance for my buying decision. So newbies do need answers that at least _a handful_ of reputated forum members can more or less agree upon.
I was thinking of buying a creative NJBR3 which would play wav files, but I could burm them to cd of course if needed. I'm only interested in good sound quality, all else doesn't really matter, I just found the portability attractive, but I don't want to sacrifice sound quality, _at least not in the context of being a normal mortal, not a die-hard audiophile (sorry, no offense )_. I'm just very unsure what to buy: a pcdp, a stationary device, a different hard-disk player (also perhaps combined with an additional docking station)...
Help! This forum is total info overkill for somebody who doesn't want to make this his only spare time activity, and I feel lost... I want to be able to say, "look, that's what the head-fi experts recommended." :->
I'm very new to this and the last days I have spent ~5 hours reading in this forum. And I am very confused. Extremely confused. I don't have the time to spend hours and hours forming my own opinion. I wonder whether the forum people here could agree (agree ) on a couple of recommendations for certain budgets and certain requirements (please ). Also I've been searching for a FAQ on this site, to no avail. So far I've decided to buy a HD600, and, since it needs an amp, to also buy the ha-1 mkII. But I was very confused as to which other components I should buy, given that I have a $700 budget for these, and that I listen to music through headphones _exclusively_. (I read about better cables so I opted for those oehlbach cables.)
I see there are threads on questions like "portables + x + y + ... + headphones, vs stationary players". (I felt this was a slightly different issue so I opened a new thread other than the portable vs. stationary thread at http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67899, but note the similarities) I get confused about "line-out", "digital-analog-converters" (yes I am new and I didn't find a faq , blame me if I overlooked one), and all sorts of things to keep in mind, and additional devices, and insiders arguing about questions that are in fact of relevance for my buying decision. So newbies do need answers that at least _a handful_ of reputated forum members can more or less agree upon.
I was thinking of buying a creative NJBR3 which would play wav files, but I could burm them to cd of course if needed. I'm only interested in good sound quality, all else doesn't really matter, I just found the portability attractive, but I don't want to sacrifice sound quality, _at least not in the context of being a normal mortal, not a die-hard audiophile (sorry, no offense )_. I'm just very unsure what to buy: a pcdp, a stationary device, a different hard-disk player (also perhaps combined with an additional docking station)...
Help! This forum is total info overkill for somebody who doesn't want to make this his only spare time activity, and I feel lost... I want to be able to say, "look, that's what the head-fi experts recommended." :->