gjw397
New Head-Fier
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A recent move and newly arrived children have left me with nowhere safe to set up my speakers. As an alternative, I've been looking into getting a decent pair of headphones.
I've got Sennheiser HD480s which I've had since the age of 11(!) and more recntly PXC250s, which I use at work.
My plan is to move towards a streamed FLAC system (using something like a squeezebox), with a seperate DAC and headphone amp at the front end, which leaves me with one or two questions:
- I've been fortuante enough to have a reasonable pre/power amp set up with floorstanding speakers for a while (Hafler/Musical Fidelity and Triangle respectively). How much am I going to have to spend on a headphone/amp setup to get into a similar performance league? Any recommendations?
- Does anyone remember HD480s? I'm assuming that things have moved on a bit in 20 years and it's worth getting new phones first and then adding a DAC/amp later as funds allow? I quite liked the sound of Senns when I last listened around, and had been looking at HD650s, they seem to be a resonable balance between price/performance - is it worth spending more/less?
Sorry to post so many questions in one go, but I've been reading up for a few weeks now and thought that putting it all into context would help.
I've got Sennheiser HD480s which I've had since the age of 11(!) and more recntly PXC250s, which I use at work.
My plan is to move towards a streamed FLAC system (using something like a squeezebox), with a seperate DAC and headphone amp at the front end, which leaves me with one or two questions:
- I've been fortuante enough to have a reasonable pre/power amp set up with floorstanding speakers for a while (Hafler/Musical Fidelity and Triangle respectively). How much am I going to have to spend on a headphone/amp setup to get into a similar performance league? Any recommendations?
- Does anyone remember HD480s? I'm assuming that things have moved on a bit in 20 years and it's worth getting new phones first and then adding a DAC/amp later as funds allow? I quite liked the sound of Senns when I last listened around, and had been looking at HD650s, they seem to be a resonable balance between price/performance - is it worth spending more/less?
Sorry to post so many questions in one go, but I've been reading up for a few weeks now and thought that putting it all into context would help.