Someone just gave you $750 to buy one pair of headphones for happy place music chill out time listening. All your other cans dissappear. What do you buy?
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bagwell359
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Happy/relaxed?
1. Used HD-600 and BH Crack w/ speedball - right up against $750.
2. Used HEX v2 for about $650 with a nice after market cable, and remember to use my digital EQ.
3. For a bit less gauze: buy HE-500 w/ aftermarket cable, do a few mods and use my digital EQ. $420.
Those are my 3 options.
1. Used HD-600 and BH Crack w/ speedball - right up against $750.
2. Used HEX v2 for about $650 with a nice after market cable, and remember to use my digital EQ.
3. For a bit less gauze: buy HE-500 w/ aftermarket cable, do a few mods and use my digital EQ. $420.
Those are my 3 options.
I'd find a Focal Elear and use that with EQ on PC. In fact, it is what I was doing for a few months before I got the Stellia in early August. Elear is awesome when you use EQ to fix its stock tonality issues.
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A used pair of Focal Clears.
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Elegia + SMSL M500 = $750
Aeon 2 closed. Great 4 home. Awesome for travel. Swiss Army knife in headphone world.
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HD700 with a very carefully selected amplifier 
silent-circuit
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Denon AH-D7200. My current favorite headphone. Could get them new on eBay for that, but would probably buy used and get a nice balanced cable, assuming I'm allowed to keep my current amps / DACs. 
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If I only had one choice? Pre-Fazor LCD 2, no questions asked. I could live with just those headphones if I had to, they don't do as single genre badly.
I have one in mind, but I cannot tell you. Your own happy place you will find it.
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ThanatosVI
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"all your other cans dissappear" -> cry in a corner.
In that price range only the Sundara comes to mind. Even a LCD-2C costs 900€
If buying used is an option the Hifiman Edition X V2
In that price range only the Sundara comes to mind. Even a LCD-2C costs 900€
If buying used is an option the Hifiman Edition X V2
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We are talking about Audeze LCD2 correct? What is Fazor?
ThanatosVI
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Fazors are elements added to the drivers of most Audeze cans since like 2015?
For more details on how it works and what it does see here:
https://www.audeze.com/blogs/technology-and-innovation/fazor-elements
Original LCD 2s didn't have Fazors. New LCD 2s have Fazors.
The LCD 2 Classic doesn't have fazors and is basically a new version of the original LCD2.
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