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As I am about to enter the world of personal hifi, I have auditioned some of the leading headphones. I have quite diverse tastes in music - big choral works, to electronica and a lot in between. I seldom like most of the songs on any one CD.
The cool thing about headphone systems, unlike listening room systems, is that you can easily switch to different headphones that are best suited to different music , or ones that are more forgiving for lower quality source material. I assume this is one of the reasons that many head-fi'ers have several (or more) different headphones.
If money and desk space was no object, I suppose ideally you might want different DAC/amp to drive each different headphone - bespoke system for each need. But perhaps we can assume just one very well performing DAC / amp , to support multiple headphones (no more than 2 at the same time is required). Can you offer some examples of a suite of several headphones that are great for covering the range of musical genres and recording quality?
The cool thing about headphone systems, unlike listening room systems, is that you can easily switch to different headphones that are best suited to different music , or ones that are more forgiving for lower quality source material. I assume this is one of the reasons that many head-fi'ers have several (or more) different headphones.
If money and desk space was no object, I suppose ideally you might want different DAC/amp to drive each different headphone - bespoke system for each need. But perhaps we can assume just one very well performing DAC / amp , to support multiple headphones (no more than 2 at the same time is required). Can you offer some examples of a suite of several headphones that are great for covering the range of musical genres and recording quality?