kboe
Headphoneus Supremus
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I would say the 800s, unless were talking about the PK series.
And that answer is the point I was making. The hd800 off an ipod may be at best 25% of what they are capable of. And the headphones you mentioned are good cans, but I would take a pair of hd800s that's I can only get 25% percent out of over the headphones you mentioned driven 1000% beyond what they are capable of. I remember reading a post in the original he-5 thread of someone enjoying them straight out of an ipod. Those are even harder to drive than the hd800s, but still the he-5 are entry level to reference quality. And even driven out of an ipod, they will sound better than some cans driven to their full potential.
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Im not saying the headphone doesn't matter as much like your saying the source doesn't matter as much. Im saying that I believe that every component is important, and all equally. Nothing is first, and nothing is last. There is a difference/choice in what I would upgrade first, but that doesn't make it the most important in the signal chain.
Well I do believe everything is important as well, but when I said how important the role headphone plays you commented that you disagreed with that. And I also said that after the amplifier, you need a "quality" source. So yes the source is important, but no matter how good the source is crappy headphones is still going to sound like crappy headphones.