upgrade from nuprime udsd + meze 99

Mar 7, 2019 at 5:59 AM Post #2 of 4
Helo everybody. I need some help. I want to upgrade from nuprime udsd + meze 99 for higher level of sound.
I listen only yrance music . Budget is around 1000-1200 usd. Thanks.

Not exactly sure what you can still improve there for that kind of music.

Other headphones will likely be open back and depending on how much louder ambient noise is, even if it measures with more bass in a lab environment, outside of that you will perceive even less bass. That's counting adding an amplifier to make sure they can go loud without distortion to compensate for the likely lower sensitivity. Anything else these can give you - wider and deeper imaging, flatter response, etc - don't really matter for trance the way it's recorded (it's not like it's recorded in such a way that you can listen to how a piano's keys are laid out left to right, where the double bass is, where the guitar is, etc) nor for what you'd want to hear them do (ie bass will be as level as possible if not trail off sooner, effectively giving you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less bass, even worse if it's an open back headphone).

If you just want more bass and hear much more of everything else louder and very clean, your best bet is probably the LCD-2C Closed back version. Drive it with something like a Schiit Lyr3 with the 4490 DAC card installed.
 
Mar 7, 2019 at 6:17 AM Post #3 of 4
Not exactly sure what you can still improve there for that kind of music.

Other headphones will likely be open back and depending on how much louder ambient noise is, even if it measures with more bass in a lab environment, outside of that you will perceive even less bass. That's counting adding an amplifier to make sure they can go loud without distortion to compensate for the likely lower sensitivity. Anything else these can give you - wider and deeper imaging, flatter response, etc - don't really matter for trance the way it's recorded (it's not like it's recorded in such a way that you can listen to how a piano's keys are laid out left to right, where the double bass is, where the guitar is, etc) nor for what you'd want to hear them do (ie bass will be as level as possible if not trail off sooner, effectively giving you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less bass, even worse if it's an open back headphone).

If you just want more bass and hear much more of everything else louder and very clean, your best bet is probably the LCD-2C Closed back version. Drive it with something like a Schiit Lyr3 with the 4490 DAC card installed.
Consultants in local stores promise more detailed and deep sound with audinst dx1 v2 + fostex th610 or more expensive Campfire Audio Cascade headphones
 
Mar 7, 2019 at 10:04 AM Post #4 of 4
Consultants in local stores promise more detailed and deep sound with audinst dx1 v2 + fostex th610 or more expensive Campfire Audio Cascade headphones

So how were they when you tried them?

You did try them, right? I mean they're in local stores, no need to gamble ordering deaf online...

In this case it's best that you try them first since specs wise there's still a possibility that this might not be what you're looking for. "Deeper" bass isn't always what people think they want, since in some cases it just changes the tone as it reaches deeper into the lower frequencies, but can be either too flat all along the bass freqs relative to everything else or in some cases would just need a fair bit more power than that amp they suggested.
 

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