ProdigyToby
New Head-Fier
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I've always loved music. I listen to it during my college classes, walking around the house, driving to various places, jogging, and mostly everything I do on a daily basis. Growing up I used typical low quality earphones and headphones, then I bought some Audio Technica ATH in earphones, ATH something I forgot, it was years ago. One day I was browsing Amazon.com and long story short, I became interested in headphones. I had money saved up from working during the summer. I did a few days worth of research as to what exactly I wanted, and decided on the Hifiman-HE500. I read that it was an extremely good set of headphones with great value and could compete with even top of the line headphones in the thousand dollar range, and if I had the money to spend I should skip the HE400 and go straight to the 500s. I discovered on my research that certain things were necessary for headphones of this calibur, such as a high powered headphone amplifier. I read that the schiit lyr was a good match for this headphone, it drove it nicely and was a good price. I also purchased the bifrost DAC because my library was stored on a semi-old laptop and obviously that was a really bad source for this type of equipment. I recieved these three components, was suprised how simple it really was to setup, and began exploring my beginings into very high quality audio. Needless to say it was nothing like I had ever heard before, my mind was blown. Its been about 5 days not and I cant stop listening to music. This is where my problem is. I cant stop listening to my new headphones. Going back to my audio technica ATHs, its just very boring sounding, no offense they served me very well for years. I'm looking for a good portable setup I can take with me because all I can think about is listening to music now, even during class. I am considering the following:
Sennhieser momentum on ear or over ear headphones. I noticed that these HE500s leak ALOT of sound and obviously i need something quieter than that since this is going to be a portable setup.
Audio Technica ESW9A. I read in a thread here that these headphones scored in the top 3 of a group of selected high quality portable headphones and are decently prices, and looked good to boot. I also know that Audio Technica provides pretty good sound from my previous experience.
I haven't decided on a portable amp as I have no information whatsoever to go on with that, so im kindly asking you guys for suggestions on both portable headphones and portable amplifiers, thanks alot.
Sennhieser momentum on ear or over ear headphones. I noticed that these HE500s leak ALOT of sound and obviously i need something quieter than that since this is going to be a portable setup.
Audio Technica ESW9A. I read in a thread here that these headphones scored in the top 3 of a group of selected high quality portable headphones and are decently prices, and looked good to boot. I also know that Audio Technica provides pretty good sound from my previous experience.
I haven't decided on a portable amp as I have no information whatsoever to go on with that, so im kindly asking you guys for suggestions on both portable headphones and portable amplifiers, thanks alot.