I would suggest listening to some pairs at your nearest hifi shop, rather than buying blind. if you want a similar sound I would say try other models from Audio-Technica, as most of their consumer models are tuned much the same.

thankyou for calling me out on that, i don't want to give people the wrong idea.

thanks, i should clarify better, what i meant was, if you wanted to try iems purely for sound quality, and not convenience, ANC, etc. then you are better off wired. i did not mean to discredit bluetooth, it is pretty incredible these days.

wired IEMs or headphones which cost less than half as much are still better for sound quality than these models, even being massively improved over the previous ones.

a subtle 4dB Boost at about 85Hz is a nice way to boost bass without muddying the rest of the frequencies. any more than about 5dB then you could get Harmonic Distortion issues. i would recommend Equaliser APO, Peace EQ

eq is an easy and free option, you could always try EQ first, then upgrade if it doesn't do what you want

if you wanted to get some wired iems that are an upgrade, you wouldn't have to spend more then $150 at most, a lot of the cheaper Fiios sound really good. that way if he doesn't like them then it won't metter so much

i saw some Sivgas in a hifi shop in NZ a while ago, they look really nice, good to see some moderately priced cans that both sound and look great!

there is some merit to meaurements, but not solely as a way to judge what a headphone will sound like. it is useful to be able to compare measurements of two headphones, if you have heard one of them, for example, if you have heard the HD600, and you have the measurements beside those of another...

nice, i might do the same sought of thing for my DT770 pro.

To ad to this, frequency response changes drastically depanding on the shape of a person's ears, as well as many factors even including bone structure of the skull - for resonant frequency. This becomes obvious when you see the same headphone measured on different rigs: they are all basically...

they do have tons of models, but no entry level closed back (i mean, elegias are on a $350 runout...) but those won't be around for ever. i feel like they should make another, more affordable bluetooth model in this lineup.

hi, I would recommend the Latest version of the Ifi Hip Dac for any headphones that a reletively easy to drive. there are many versions, and you usually see the earlier one really cheap on runout sales etc.

thanks, i got it home and i didn't hold charge, so sent it back anyway.

fair enough, often i have this problem, i wonder why my speakers sound odd then remember the eq and vice versa

audio interfaces ussually don't have heaps of power, and if you have headphones that are hard to drive, like yours, then you might not necessarily need a better dac, but just a headphone amp fed from the main outputs of your interface, to give you more power. this way you might get more for...

depends on what sort of sound signature you like.

i'd advise a FiiO BTR model, which you can tweek to sound a bit warm with the eq. these are great value, and sound great for the price.

i guess the same reason some massive speakers are 4 Ohms and need 150 watts minimum to sound good.

i may be wrong though - please correct me if so.

this is very true, consider Sennheiser HD6xx (300 Ohms) vs DT770 Pro (mine are 250 Ohms). the HD6xx has a higher impedance but is substantially easier to drive. i believe impedance means how much of the original power to gets to the driver, and sensitivity is how loud that amount of power causes...

in a lot of ways, this is accurate, but you also have to consider, a lot of what you are paying for with expensive headphones is the materials, far less materials are required to make an iem, thus making more of the price reflective of the quality. but, as mentioned above, IEMs have more...

update: 1: Focal Elgia 2: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro with upgrade perforated pads 3: Hifiman RE800 Silver IEM 4: Fiio JH3 IEM 5: Sennheiser Momentum 1 6: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x 7: Final E1000 IEM 8: Fostex TE04 IEM 9: TFS My Love 2 IEM

that is what i meant by each channel has it's own negative, rather than sharing a ground.

the benefit to balanced audio is reduced noise, therefore acheiving greater clarity.