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Enough nights the media room commandeered for movie watching and frustration with the shabby SQ of airpods while away from home, I finally took the plunge and picked up a hifiman he1000 stealth while they were on black friday sale. Which really seems like a permanent sale on an old but decent product.
So now on to the usual - picking out a portable dac/amp (waiting on an ifi diablo to get the ball rolling) and trying to untangle the connectivity and cable puzzles (source will be ios devices - iphone/ipad, for now at least. Until Lumin makes a portable streamer haha).
When $ allow I could see finding one of the new enleum's. I had the big brother and loved it.
While waiting on the ifi amp/dac I have them plugged directly into the iphone and they sound pretty good to me. Nothing jaw dropping but several steps up from the bose and airpods wireless.
It's a pretty addictive experience! Just glad to have something good to listen to when I can't sit in front of the 2-channel system.
I know there are much better headphones out there, for a lot more money, and systems dedicated to headphone listening. Hard to imagine how good those get.
This hobby never fails to find a way to suck you back in.
So now on to the usual - picking out a portable dac/amp (waiting on an ifi diablo to get the ball rolling) and trying to untangle the connectivity and cable puzzles (source will be ios devices - iphone/ipad, for now at least. Until Lumin makes a portable streamer haha).
When $ allow I could see finding one of the new enleum's. I had the big brother and loved it.
While waiting on the ifi amp/dac I have them plugged directly into the iphone and they sound pretty good to me. Nothing jaw dropping but several steps up from the bose and airpods wireless.
It's a pretty addictive experience! Just glad to have something good to listen to when I can't sit in front of the 2-channel system.
I know there are much better headphones out there, for a lot more money, and systems dedicated to headphone listening. Hard to imagine how good those get.
This hobby never fails to find a way to suck you back in.