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I'm a bit flexible , but was thinking along the lines of 300$ us tops on a dac and 500 or so tops on an amp.
to me as far as budget goes, as I said I can give a little more IF the gain in sound quality is substantial.
I am though, trying to stay away from broadening my price range much, as that'll just lead to more options and more research and headaches :'(
as I can clearly see, not sure what those here would call it, what I call "upgrade-itis" , gets many that are into this hifi headphone world. As that happens people keep up-ing the dollar amount they will spend.
so.... lol after all my silly rambling on, lets say 800$ us max
If you're going separate dac and amp, you're throwing money away if you buy a $300 dac. Spend $700 on your amp, and get an airport express as your way to get the music off your computer.
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the gilmore lite is probably the best out of the bunch.
or you can save up the money and get an all-in-one solution such as the benchmark/apogee/lavry/aqvox/headroom desktop. probably gonna run a tad expensive even when you can find one used, but IMHO its the best-of-both-worlds solution.
Aqvox isn't an all in one solution. It's a dac, with a shitty headphone amp if you're using usb. I'd say the M3 is a good choice from that list , and if you're considering the hornet, you should also consider amps like the supermicro and the pint, etc.
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He uses a sling blade. Some people call it a kaiser blade, mm hmmm.
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Hmmm... Ponders the idiocy of hooking up an decent portable source - but nevertheless a significantly inferior non-portable source if it were to be used as such - with something that is not portable in any way. If you can afford a Manley amp you can probably afford a Sonos system and a DAC at home. As a viable everyday solution and as a facility to actually incorporate into a product, it is undoubtedly an excellent marketing move but it is idiotic all the same - unless there is a DAC built into there of course, in which case I take it all back.
I have an iPod dock nominally wired to my 383 which I use for charging only in most cases and I have been known to do this... but purely for the sake of amusement.
Look at it this way. The ipod may not be the best source hooked up, or the source most frequently used, but it sure would be handy to just walk up and drop the pod on, if say you have friends over who want you to hear something, or you're having a party, or whatnot. The dock is about convenience, and the output from it isn't bad, even if it isn't up to the level of a multi thousand dollar outboard dac.
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Wouldn't this be the epitome of the dumbassness associated with "portable toys"? (Portable as in MP3 player not as in portability.)
What kind of idiot amplifies an iPod with a Manley?
The kind of idiot who owns an ipod and a manley, I'd bet.
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That has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with increasing market penetration. Throw an ipod dock on your device, and suddenly millions of people become a potential customer. And if you can get listed in apple's store...
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Why are you asking almost exactly the same question in another thread?
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cheap external drive.
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If you can find em, try out the W11JPN and W10VTG. They're the only 2 at's I've heard, but they're apparently different from the rest of the ATs. I find them very musical and enjoyable. Enough so that I sold my PS3000s and HP1s to stick with hhf1 and w10vtg.
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I use UM2s straight out of my 5g ipod and my shuffle, and don't miss the amp at all...just saying.
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An ipod is a good choice, and works reasonably well with ER4P. If that's your primarly listening environment, I wouldn't worry about an amp. If you plan on listening in other locations too, contact mexican dragon about his SuperMacro v1. It was built with the ER4P in mind, and I'm sure he could be talked into selling it fairly cheaply.
I am a complete noob at this. I have been lurking the forum, but I am confused. Most of the discussion is way over my head.
My goal is to get a reasonably nice setup to use while on my exercise bike at home.
I think I have decided on a pair of etymotic ER-4P In Ear Monitors because I need the isolation, the bike is very noisy. (see link http://www.head-case.org/index.php?topic=1097.0)
I don't have a clue what to use for a source, or an amp.
I am presently using an older dvd player with a headphone jack, but it won't play anything but a pressed disc, no CD-R's.
My budget for a source and amp is pretty low, maybe $300, but less is better.
I am reasonably computer literate, and can download and convert file formats, burn discs, and use flash memory without a problem.
Should I just get an Ipod?
Would I need an amp with an Ipod, or is the IEM efficent enough I don't need an amp?
Would a $50 Cmoy amp off of ebay, with the gain customized by the builder, work well with these?
What about using a portable CD player, or an inexpensive home DVD player with a Cmoy?
Or would a pc be a good source?
I wouldn't mind doing some reading, if you could direct me to a "audio for idiots" website.
Thanks a lot.
Danny
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well, he made this big to do about just how incredibly accurate the film was. i liked the movie, i just found the historical inaccuracies in the face of Gibson's claims to be irritating.
So how do you know the historians you're believing are more accurate than the historians he was using? I haven't seen the movie, but just because not everyone agrees on his facts doesn't mean he's wrong. It's not like we have great records from mayan times.
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Yup.
You haven't been HERE long enough, or with sufficient privileges to understand.
He predates you by quite a bit
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Anyways, as anyone can see Im new here. *blush*
So, Hi?
I have about 130 CAD to spend on some semi-decent cans this week. Any suggestions? I've looked at the senn 280, and grado 60. Id like to know in your honorable opinions which one is the nicer choice.
For that budget, assuming you don't have a way to listen first, I'd buy a pair of allessandro MS1s.
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I tend not to swear just for the sake of it, prefer to use the occasional word to highlight a point.... much more effective than filling every sentence with swearwords just cause you can. Thanks for the advice though
There are people who don't understand the difference between can and should. That's ok tho, we won't ban them, just disdain them.
We've mostly gotten beyond the stream of curse words just because they're not banned here. We still haven't gotten past some of the headfi bashing, but hopefully one day the fuel for that fire won't be so prevalent.
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My family is making Lamb and King Crab instead of the usual Turkey, I'd have to say I'm looking forward to the change.
I'm having king crab legs and standing rib roast. I love being in alaska, you should see these crab legs...bigger around than my baby's leg.
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mele kalikimaka everybuddy
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Because that is still smaller than a full sized ipod + amp?
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Not natively, but you can via wine, again a weakness of developers and not the Linux system itself. Everyday, Linux is (on the average) gaining marketshare, and I really think you will see more and more gains when Vista rolls out. This, of course, is just one man's opinion.
I'm sorry, vista won't make more developers switch to linux. Linux being used by people willing to pay for software is what will get developers writing for linux. In otherwords, some business software, but almost no games. And it will stay like that forever.
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It looks like a lexus dashboard...
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What are some examples of a good amp to pair with the headphones?
Cheers,
Nanoha
I really liked them with the old school mpx3 and with the emotion+ from blueberry.
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The hd25 senns that were recommended up are worth a try. Also if you can get your hands on woodified CD3000, they are also worth consideration. The regular CD3000s were too bright for my taste but, maybe a laid back amp may work.
For reference, I have not heard any beyer cans, (the ones Dusty mentioned, I need to get together with him to to this someday) or the koss either.
cheers.
Woodied CD3000s with PS1 drivers are spectacular, as well...
the woodied headphile 770s when paired with the right amp sound better than they have any right to.
Senn 650's, Cardas cable, and . . . . .???
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There is some software that will let you stream anything to it, but it works mainly with itunes, and with itunes is bit perfect. And nothing about itunes or the airport express stops you from playing any mp3, aac, alac, wav, etc file. The drm is only on songs you buy from apple.