Shexbex
New Head-Fier
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I used to purchase music using itunes and then I'd listen to it on my computer through a total bithead and my grado 225s when I'm at home, but I'd use an Ipod and a pair of Beyerdynamic 250 headphones when I'm outside, which constitutes for most of my music listening time.
I have listened to my friend's CDs in a full sized cd player and I've seen the light, plus I want to start enjoying the album artwork and so on.
I don't actually, however, know much about portable CD players. My understanding is that the old ones are much better than the new ones, but is that like, a complete audiophile-level difference? How much should I be looking to spend on one given my headphones (as in, headphones that are in my opinion perfect value for money and are at the cutoff point of diminish returns). I would give a max budget but I don't know how far this could go. A figure of £200 would probably be the max I would pay but I don't know if that's actually way to high for what I need or nowhere near an improvement to mp3 audio.
If it helps, I listen to stuff like Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Tool, and a lot of post-rock, which is different, because it's music with very good production and really ambient nuances, but also gets quite heavy at times which means that good attack is required (I'm more of a grado headbanger foottapper person than a sennheiser person).
Also, since this will be portable, size might actually be a bit of an issue.
I have listened to my friend's CDs in a full sized cd player and I've seen the light, plus I want to start enjoying the album artwork and so on.
I don't actually, however, know much about portable CD players. My understanding is that the old ones are much better than the new ones, but is that like, a complete audiophile-level difference? How much should I be looking to spend on one given my headphones (as in, headphones that are in my opinion perfect value for money and are at the cutoff point of diminish returns). I would give a max budget but I don't know how far this could go. A figure of £200 would probably be the max I would pay but I don't know if that's actually way to high for what I need or nowhere near an improvement to mp3 audio.
If it helps, I listen to stuff like Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Tool, and a lot of post-rock, which is different, because it's music with very good production and really ambient nuances, but also gets quite heavy at times which means that good attack is required (I'm more of a grado headbanger foottapper person than a sennheiser person).
Also, since this will be portable, size might actually be a bit of an issue.