LostChild1
100+ Head-Fier
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Alright, a little bit of backstory to start us off:
I'm an 18 year old college student from Montreal, Canada. I was the kind of kid who hated music when I was very young. I would tell my parents to turn off the radio in the car, because I hated the noise. Then a few years later, when I smartened up, I was the kid who would compress his MP3s to unbelievable sizes in order to fit as many songs into 512MB as possible.
Now, over the years I don't know how I've developed but I'm now the kid who has 12,000 songs (Modest size in our terms, but to layman's, it's huge!) in FLAC / MP3 V0 quality organized to a tee on my PC. Needless to say, I care about sound and music now.
Currently my "expensive" rig was my iPod Classic 160GB -> Ultimate Ears Triple.Fi. $350 was a ton of money to spend on headphones to me. But as I've gotten more involved here, and reading what everyone has to say, spending $800 on an amp doesn't seem that far-fetched. Let alone $600 for a pair of headphones. Except, I didn't pay that, no sir. I hit GOLD on these Senn's. My ex-girlfriend's mom recently started a job at Sennheiser, at which she gets any Sennheiser product at the manufacturing cost + 10% off.
Now, I've seen used HD650s sell on here for 350USD, I've seen new ones on eBay for 400USD. But she was able to get them for me, brand new, for 205USD. And I'm a smart man, and know when to not pass up an opportunity! So I bought them today.
All that being said, I don't have a dedicated headphone amp, but my family has a Marantz SR-3001 receiver / amp which will have to make due for now. Connected to said amp is my Technics SL1200-MKII with (currently) a Shure M92E cartridge (Just bought a M97xE off jpstereo the other day
).
In short, not very hi-fi stuff right now. However, regardless of all that, I must say: WOW. If this is what they sound like with NO burn in, without a dedicated amp, with a mediocre cartridge and everything, then I can't WAIT for it to only get better!
The soundstage blew me away. The response blew me away. I've listened to records like Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not over 100 times and I heard things that I've never heard before, I heard clear details that I never knew existed before. And just had an experience like I've never had before in my life!
This isn't my final setup, as I'm moving my TT next to my PC and hopefully having something like this:
PC -> ESI Juli@ -> GS Solo w/ PSU1 -> HD 650
&
Technics SL1200-MKII -> TC750-LC Preamp -> GS Solo w/ PSU1 -> HD 650
And once I have all that, I think I'll be content for a little while. But I just cannot WAIT! I don't have the money for it right now, but I just want to take out a loan and buy the GS Solo right now
In short, I'm so glad that I've discovered what music is meant to be, and I can't wait for it to get even better.
I've officially joined the dark side.
I'm an 18 year old college student from Montreal, Canada. I was the kind of kid who hated music when I was very young. I would tell my parents to turn off the radio in the car, because I hated the noise. Then a few years later, when I smartened up, I was the kid who would compress his MP3s to unbelievable sizes in order to fit as many songs into 512MB as possible.
Now, over the years I don't know how I've developed but I'm now the kid who has 12,000 songs (Modest size in our terms, but to layman's, it's huge!) in FLAC / MP3 V0 quality organized to a tee on my PC. Needless to say, I care about sound and music now.
Currently my "expensive" rig was my iPod Classic 160GB -> Ultimate Ears Triple.Fi. $350 was a ton of money to spend on headphones to me. But as I've gotten more involved here, and reading what everyone has to say, spending $800 on an amp doesn't seem that far-fetched. Let alone $600 for a pair of headphones. Except, I didn't pay that, no sir. I hit GOLD on these Senn's. My ex-girlfriend's mom recently started a job at Sennheiser, at which she gets any Sennheiser product at the manufacturing cost + 10% off.
Now, I've seen used HD650s sell on here for 350USD, I've seen new ones on eBay for 400USD. But she was able to get them for me, brand new, for 205USD. And I'm a smart man, and know when to not pass up an opportunity! So I bought them today.
All that being said, I don't have a dedicated headphone amp, but my family has a Marantz SR-3001 receiver / amp which will have to make due for now. Connected to said amp is my Technics SL1200-MKII with (currently) a Shure M92E cartridge (Just bought a M97xE off jpstereo the other day
In short, not very hi-fi stuff right now. However, regardless of all that, I must say: WOW. If this is what they sound like with NO burn in, without a dedicated amp, with a mediocre cartridge and everything, then I can't WAIT for it to only get better!
The soundstage blew me away. The response blew me away. I've listened to records like Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not over 100 times and I heard things that I've never heard before, I heard clear details that I never knew existed before. And just had an experience like I've never had before in my life!
This isn't my final setup, as I'm moving my TT next to my PC and hopefully having something like this:
PC -> ESI Juli@ -> GS Solo w/ PSU1 -> HD 650
&
Technics SL1200-MKII -> TC750-LC Preamp -> GS Solo w/ PSU1 -> HD 650
And once I have all that, I think I'll be content for a little while. But I just cannot WAIT! I don't have the money for it right now, but I just want to take out a loan and buy the GS Solo right now
In short, I'm so glad that I've discovered what music is meant to be, and I can't wait for it to get even better.
