The headphones thread! [Sorry about your wallet]

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#2505932 16-Jun-2020 16:32

The addicted 2 audio site posted before has audeze gear listed.

Checking it out though, blimey $525 for the Schiit Hel. It’s $189usd on their main site.

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#2506202 17-Jun-2020 09:07

Does anyone have any first-hand experience with the B&W PX7?

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#2508066 19-Jun-2020 13:23

My Surface Headphones 2 in matte black are sitting in Auckland waiting to be couriered down to me in Wellington. They've been in Auckland since Wednesday evening. They were sent from Melbourne on Monday evening. As usual, nearly longer to get from one end of one island than across the Tasman.

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#2508067 19-Jun-2020 13:25

gehenna:

My Surface Headphones 2 in matte black are sitting in Auckland waiting to be couriered down to me in Wellington. They've been in Auckland since Wednesday evening. They were sent from Melbourne on Monday evening. As usual, nearly longer to get from one end of one island than across the Tasman.

Heh, I think I posted here once before (another thread) about how an item from the US arrived quicker than something I ordered, in stock, in Newmarket, less than 10KM away.

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#2514936 30-Jun-2020 10:21

Am not much of an audio nut. Just wondering about the Sennheiser HD 450BT as a gift for general use with a bit of noise cancelling thrown in. They're only $199 till the end of today. Reasonable / good / bad ?

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#2514937 30-Jun-2020 10:22

The Surface Headphones 2 arrived and are amazing quality

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#2515155 30-Jun-2020 15:31

rb99:

Am not much of an audio nut. Just wondering about the Sennheiser HD 450BT as a gift for general use with a bit of noise cancelling thrown in. They're only $199 till the end of today. Reasonable / good / bad ?

I've been looking at those on and off for a while.

Trying to find some nice BT on ear headphones, to match my wired momentum 2's.

Everything newer seems to be over ear. Wanted on ear with noise cancelling ideally.

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#2515159 30-Jun-2020 15:35

Anyone got/tried the RME ADI-2 DAC?

Seems like a decent, do-it-all endgame desktop unit...

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#2515165 30-Jun-2020 15:57

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Anyone got/tried the RME ADI-2 DAC?

Seems like a decent, do-it-all endgame desktop unit...

It's not family safe to describe what I would require to be included with this to make it worth $2500 :)

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#2515167 30-Jun-2020 16:06

networkn:

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Anyone got/tried the RME ADI-2 DAC?

Seems like a decent, do-it-all endgame desktop unit...

It's not family safe to describe what I would require to be included with this to make it worth $2500 :)

Oops - for some reason I was thinking the US$ price was the NZ$ price, i.e around $1k! At the top end, but worth considering...

...but yes, having checked Rubber Monkey, I am not sure I would drop that much either.

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#2515168 30-Jun-2020 16:09

$1K isn't outrageous on a DAC, a Mid to high Mid-range mobile DAC and Amp would cost you $700-1000.

Though, in my experience, diminishing returns kicks in at a pretty low value for DAC's in my opinion.

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#2515181 30-Jun-2020 17:04

Just landed: JBL Quantum 800 wireless/Bluetooth gaming headphones. Charging at the moment...

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#2515190 30-Jun-2020 17:29

networkn:

$1K isn't outrageous on a DAC, a Mid to high Mid-range mobile DAC and Amp would cost you $700-1000.

Though, in my experience, diminishing returns kicks in at a pretty low value for DAC's in my opinion.

it is an amp as well!

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#2523622 15-Jul-2020 17:27

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it is an amp as well!

In 2020, it seems like the market is rich with options; $1K USD could buy you a whole lot of good gear AND still have some left over for black-jack and hookers... I will say its 'purty (I am a sucker for a metal + gauges), but you are definitely paying a lot for that case/equalizer/brand. They're not even using a top-range DAC chip.

I have been contemplating picking up a JDS Labs Atom as a cheap pre-amp, and better head-amp then my Yamaha speaker amp, but then I see that Topping should be releasing a new head-amp soon, so might have to wait until then to see what the NZ price looks like. Anyone had experience with the Atom or other JDS Labs products here?

Might have to upgrade my headphones next...

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#2526807 21-Jul-2020 22:16

Has anyone used the Apple air pods pros?

I have found with most (not all) in ear things, I get to hear a lot of internal noise - breathing, hearbeat, articial heart valve etc which I find unpleasant, irritating and distracting. It appears to be as much a product of the material as it does the item

For example, I have some custom moulded in ear hearing protectors I wear for shooting. They are absolutely fine. Made of some semi-hard silicone material. A year later, I had the same company make (using the same in ear mould) some sleep earplugs. They use a slightly different material for those and I simply cannot use them for sleeping - way too much internal noise. Cheap foam earplugs are fine, though!

I had Galaxy Buds and could not use them for the same reason. However, I have some Shure IEMs that have foam tips and they are fine.

I quite like the portability of the Apple APP but they ain't cheap and I would not want to spend that much just to get stuck with something that drives me nuts and have to sell it at a loss a week later. I wondered if anyone else had used them and whether they had experienced anything like what I describe.

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