Very poetic Bestula but sorry. I don't buy it. You are drawing in all kinds of unrelated topics even love! To support your dreamscape. I wish you all the good things in your world though.
yet!
the IE80 needs very little power= fact.
it has a flat impedance response so it will still have about the same signature on a 3ohm DAP= another fact.
it has a nice soundstage even on source with crap crosstalk= subjective opinion
it will sound better with an amp added to the phone= that just an idea, all sources have an amp section. so it's only a matter of having one amp better than the other. some amps are crap, some phones are pretty good. so that statement can be false and is not a fact.
but it's not like we're saying that an IE80 will sound bad on a great amp. I have an amp and sometimes I use it with the IE80. but mostly I don't and keep the amp for IEMs that need it. so I think it's ok for once if we suggest not to give into consumerism when it isn't really needed an might not change much.
Yes, you are right.
But it is not only good amp/bad amp, good source/bad source, good hp/bad hp etc... There seem to be good pairings, and less good pairings. One amp can sound magnific with a certain headphone, and less good with an other... There are main streams, like pairings which sound good for many people, but there can be exceptions... (subjectivity)
IE80 does not really need an extra amp, I totally agree. But if someone has extra few hundred pounds or dollars, they can experiment... Many depends on the budget...
I would not pay 200 pounds for a 10% improvement in my portable gear... But maybe someone would...
to me facts are stuff that will be right each time we will test for them under the same conditions. repeatability is what makes it a fact. if I know one thing will always happen, then I can talk about it to other people and expect them to also experience it. making my statement factual.
sometimes opinions are like that too, but not always. if I think that hammering my headphone will break it, I can keep it at the stage of opinion. and even if I decide not to conduct the experiment, we all have the knowledge to accept it as a fact. so there are some things where information can replace experience(good thing for my headphone ^_^). but maybe if I don't strike hard enough, I will not hit the membrane and the headphone will still work. so I keep this as an opinion until I can define how much strength is needed for a sure kill ^_^.
it's interesting philosophy but we're going so far off topic that the roman patrol might come get us.
Love them. I have a ASUS Essence STX soundcard in my PC, but it sticks out the back. From my seating position I cannot have the IE80s plugged in and sit in my chair (I would have to be under my desk for the wire to reach.) What type of "extender" cable would I need to go from my sound card to the IE80s without losing sound quality? 
Hey guys, I just got my IE80s recently
Hey guys, I just got my IE80s recently
