tubulis
New Head-Fier
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Hi all
A long time lurker has finally summoned up the courage to post. Over the last few months I've been an avid reader of the forum sucking up information and new audiophile terminology like a demented vacumn cleaner.
So my virgin paragraph leads me on to my first question but first, from my reading, it appears prudent to offer some insight into my listening preferences and other pertinent matters.
I've an eclectic mix of musical tastes but folk, folk - rock, jazz, vocal and all things acoustic premininate. This is not to say you won't find me blasting out 'Child In Time' or 'Run to the Hills' but they are the exception, an audio pallete cleanser if you will.
I live in a relatively isolated part of the UK and do not have the pleasure of a Hi-Fi retailer within travelling distance, nor friends who would understand 'audiophile' as a term not associated with some social ill. So for better or worse I cannot test components in the metal so to speak and rely on the internet as my window to all things interesting
but untouchable.
My music is held as EAC ripped FLAC stored on a NAS and my headphones are a pair of Senneiser HD650's. An admission to make, the reason I have these is because at some time in the distant past someone unknown suggested Senneiser were a decent headphone to get and I've stuck with the brand not having the imagination to try new fruit.
So, that's me. Forty odd with a habit for rambling on .....and on.
Now in a couple of months I wish to purchase a DAC and headphone amp, SS and single ended. My budget is about £800-£1000
and I've narrowed it down to
1. CORDA CONCERTO + CORDA STAGEDAC
2. BURSON AUDIO HA-160D
I've googled and can find no direct comparison between the two and have read many pages on the merits/or not of each.
Has anyone experience of both or perhaps if not the 160D, the 160? and perhaps expand on their views of either/both.
Lastly at some stage I'm also going to upgrade - read add to - my headphones but my first, next purchase will be a pair of Beyerdynamics 880's (600 ohms) as I need to start widening my experience of different makes/sound signitures before I think of more expensive wonders.
Thanks for your patience all for the length of the first post
Regards Mark