[Cawtie]

I recently bought Sennheiser HD 650s and am now looking into amp and dac to get started with for about 500$ for both. Was wondering if TubeMagic D1 is a good dac and Little Dot MK III was a decent setup to start with for these headphones.

 

[Head Injury]

Yulong D100 looks to be a great value, if you can call $500 a great value. If I wanted to spend that much, that's what I'd get.
 
I really do recommend you get a solid state amp, at least for the HD650. It already has the (perhaps misleading) "veiled" stigma attached to it, and some tube amps will just make that worse.

 

[puresilence]

the Icon HDP is solid with the HD650s (and you can get the Icon HD if you only use USB). Should be $450 new and obviously cheaper used.

 

[Varley]

I've listened to the HD600's through the Matrix M-Stage and I have nothing but love for it - A great amp with everything I throw at it - I'm not a massive expert on full sized amps but It's probably the best £170 I've spent on one piece of Audio gear

 

[disastermouse]

I'd go with a DACmini...

 

[Vanhornmp]

Dont know if it's powerful enough, but I have a TTVJ Slim that is small and compact and sounds great--although I plan to get rid of it soon

 

[Cawtie]

I think I'm going to go with the Yulong D100 when I save up the money and at some point buy an amp to go with it.