[emremusic]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and new to the audiophile world, and I'm need some help choosing some gear.
 
I'm professional jazz drummer, and I listen to 70% jazz, 30% classical. Being a jazz drummer, my ears naturally listen to the cymbals first. I will be listening to a lot of jazz combos...I would like to hear accuracy around the cymbals, but overall a warm sound.
 
Since I can't afford  great audiophile speakers , I'm thinking about purchasing a Grado 225s, and a headphone amp that will bring the most out of the music I'm listening to. My budget for the headphone amp is around $ 350.
 
I know this thread with this topic was introduced, but it is 5 years old, and market must have changed a bit since. 
 
Any help, guidance on this would be greatly appreciated, as this will be my very first headphone amp!!!

 

[BmWr75]

These are low impedance phones.  So, you need to go solid state ( a Matrix m-stage) or a tube amp with output transformers (someone else will have to chime in, all mine are output transformerless for high impedance phones).

 

[ArmAndHammer]

Check out the Little Dot line of amps. My SR325's work great with my Little Dot 1+.

 

[Trapper32]

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Check out the Little Dot line of amps. My SR325's work great with my Little Dot 1+.

+1  Another vote for the LD 1+    Its great with the SR225's also.