psikey
Headphoneus Supremus
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Unfortunately some of us have a more limited budget for toys like DAP's. If I don't want to overspend on the A105 that may not have enough power I sure as heck won't for the even more over priced (4 to 5x more) for the ZX507 for more power and same features. Quite frankly the M9 has more power than the ZX507 SE and I don't want to have to buy new balanced headphones to get enough power out of it. Thankfully I have self control and use common sense when buying gear. The M9 was a Black Friday deal, and I wouldn't pass that great deal up to maybe be able to demo a possibly inadequate A105 at some unknown point in the future. Pretty sad that a huge company like Sony can't seem to sell or market their DAP's here as well as a tiny company like Fiio does. Fiio has like 40 dealers in Canada and I can barely find one or two that carry Sony DAP's and they don't carry the A series. If Sony DAP's are so much better why don't they sell more of them here?
Why are you in here if your happy with the M9? You've made your decision, enjoy it.
Ref your: "Thankfully I have self control and use common sense when buying gear" << Again, the rude, condescending tone ?
I started with sub £50 Klipsch S4i 10 years ago and even though I can afford it I have no interest in +£1,000 DAP's or headphones. We all have our limits, not always based on what we can afford.
Who has more sense & self control? The person who buys a nice piece of kit once every couple of year or the person who uses drugs, fags, alcohol each week and/or spends silly money on cloths because they have some label on them? I do none of these.
I know people at work on below average wages but spent over £2K just on tattoos for their arm on credit !! Another had a Boob job at 21 costing over £4K !!
As a final comment, if you heard a pair of KEF LSX speakers* you'd save the £1K and buy them (or £2K for KEF LS50W if needed more power)
Oh, and my Shure SE846's are 2nd & 3rd hand at under 50% retail. (US > Sweden > Me in UK for one set)
* In the correct room for them.
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