Recent content by anort3

This is how Beyerdynamic does it. Literally the hardest way out of the 17 or 18 pair I've owned. I don't know of an easier way to do it.

What headphone? Pads are different on most of them. Everything from very easy to snap in Focals to a little harder to snap in Sennheiser to oh my god I hate this Beyerdynamic. Nothing I've owned has ever been as bad as the DT1990 Pro. Which comes with 2 sets of pads with different tunings so...

Xenforo at it's best. I stopped getting notifications again.

Clear. Clear for rock and metal and the Arya for everything else. Especially since you don't sell old stuff. The Stealth and the Organic are too similar to have both. If I get an Organic at some point I'll 99% sell the Stealth assuming the Organic is 'better'.

Nah get the OEM ones from HiFiMan when they need replacing. https://store.hifiman.com/index.php/serenitypads.html I've played with Dekoni pads a few times. DT1990 Pro and the Fostex T50 RP3. Both were worse than stock. The 1990 Pro pads got lots of love at HeadFi but I didn't care for them.

It's well rated but you'd need to factor in the speakers or headphones he's using to see if tubes are appropriate. And again for electronica and EDM you really don't want any distortion so just for the genre I wouldn't do it. Now if he also likes more vocal focused stuff and other types of...

It's an amp? What speakers or headphones is he going to be driving with it? Or is he just going to be using the DAC section?

What will he be driving with it? In general tubes introduce distortion which can be pleasing with certain audio types like jazz and other vocal centric styles.. If he's focused on EDM and electronica he'd probably be better off with a good solid state amp before something with tubes. You don't...

That's the new one. I know you can't order from headphones.com but they have the OG for $790. Almost as good a bargain as the Arya Stealth is now. The OG has better mids than the newer MG. The bad thing is no one else has the OG for that low. They might have an exclusive deal to be the only...

Focal Clear. Perfect companion pair to the Arya. Runs away.......

I'm sure a skilled person could build speakers that are very very good for much cheaper than you can buy something similar for. I don't know anyone that does it. I'm sure I could if I tried. Eventually. But after buying all the tools and materials and failing 4 or 5 times it's cheaper to just...

You can get a pretty good used car for that here in the US. Once you add a few more thousand for an amp and DAC worthy of driving them you can get a nice used car. I'd pay $5000 for speakers. I almost did recently but I ended up getting much cheaper Kef Q350s and an SVS SB1000 sub instead. I...

Lol. These are the good ones: https://www.audeze.com/products/lcd-5 You'd want to pair them with a similarly priced headphone amp and DAC. WAY out of my price range.

One person was buying a gaming headset for his daughter. He's not the OP of the thread though. Again with a 'gaming' headset most aren't tuned correctly for music even if they have capable drivers. Audeze makes some of the best headphones in the world with their higher end units and were one of...

This is a marketing term used for a speaker with a neutral tuning. It's incredibly vague and there's nothing that holds someone using that for their speakers to any standard. Real studio speakers are generally not desired for audiophile use although many real audiophile speakers are mostly...