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In the Thread: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences
Post Subject: We're getting onto something here at least market wisePosted by SearcherOfBetterSound on: 5/3/2007
I've always used to think the headphone market wasn't really that bad, more like a very healthy, "you can't go too wrong" thing. While I've already thought differently before making this thread, you just keep shitting on my face trying to wake me up from this supposed dream that perhaps there's at least one decent thing out there. You at least sort of liked Avantgarde and Lamm products, which were expensive, then you went cheaper (Avantgarde and Lamm are industry things, but when it comes to value or performance, I think the market does or can or should have some good speakers that can be had for $10,000 and amps for less than $5,000, that can get close to or beat out them)...so maybe you got to go really cheap with headphones? it sort of helps explain why you like the ATH-40fs and portable players, inexpensive standard technicality and simplicity. So...do you like the sound more from your player alone, or with a headphone amp, or your loudspeaker amp with impedance converter? If so with amp, is it really worth it price, effort, sound wise? I can't just build my own amp now anyways... So far it looks like you do appreciate and like your headphone amp, maybe even regulary more than no-amp. Even if no-amp is better, hey, amps are cool anyways (maybe enough to handle some sonic badness)! Man, I'm sort of giving up here at least for the time being, especially since I'm poor and can't build my own equipment. Well, I'm now left with pretty much the ONLY amp I'm really interested in now, this: http://www.radaudio.com/hap-03II.html Since it's pretty low powered (maybe the main reason I'm even considering it now, especially since the Antique Sound Lab ones and the other Radii ones have more power), the most I've seen or payed attention to so far at least, I bet it'll have above average naturalness that might decently compliment some headphones (my amp is pretty high powered, and said to be really "neutral", but comparing to what you've been saying, I'd have expected it to maybe be much worse or something...I do know that without it, the sound probably is more relaxing and overall better). I'm not saying it's really great or whatever, but in the market at least, it really doesn't look that bad. Since you already have a custom amp though, might as well not even bother with it since whatever you wanted is probably there decently...you probably mostly have the headphones and source to "worry" about. I've also sort of already "recommended" this Radii amp somewhat in a way anyways, just incase it is good.

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