Edition XS gets you there for under $500 (close to $300 in Asia). It's a better all rounder than the LCD-X IMO, and is much better tuned out of the box, particularly through the upper mids. LCD-X is very muffled sounding stock due to the upper mids recess. LCD-X is transformed with EQ though and does have slightly better bass (I'd say better than anything else I've heard), although the Edition XS is no slouch there either. Soundstage is also much better on the XS.

I have both and I enjoy both, but if I could only keep one it would be the Edition XS and it's not close. That it's so much cheaper is just the icing on the cake, for me it's a better headphone even if it was priced the same.

In my experience, gratitude, family, purpose, meaning, and mindfulness bring happiness. Enjoying music through headphones can definitely make you happy too. But the search for 'endgame' often provides only temporary happiness.

Etymotic ER2SE. It can even challenge some kilobuck iems in the market. Intimate soundstage tho and super deep fit which is uncomfortable sometimes.

If you really want them to sound good get a vinyl set up and really go down the rabbit hole

Shouldn't be any difference between streaming and hard drive as long as the files are the same quality. Apple music is doing good things with high res too. Lots of content

How many headphones I should try to be allowed write about personal end game?

And weigh them. Srsly thoug. This is a pretty sick mod.

Is there exist end game of the wallet ?

You should have somebody messure them. With a mesuring tape.

Seems like regular Grado headphones to me

Personal end game does really exist. Maybe I was just finding a good combination for Sundara to emphasize all advantages of planars. Apparently I mostly agree with you.

Put on a good album and let yourself listen.

Lol

Topping L70 would be a good budget start. You can drive the most cans with it. Also Arya.

If you want to be absolutely sure than you can buy Topping A90. It is ver very powerful amp.

6xx have a tiny soundstage even compared to closed backs, this mod would do nothing but make it smaller unless there is zero damping and the cups are giving off resonances and harmonic distortion all over the place.

I also love IVE and StayC in particular already had a special place at RUN2U was my most listened to track last year on Spotify. I think it only beat HypeBoy because I listened to NewJeans more on flac and on Tidal.

Antifragile and Impurities are also fantastic tracks.

I'm with you on OMG. I just can't get tired of it.

Now those are some cans

Metal and rock not sounding good on it is what I feared most. Guess it was the right decision to avoid it, I'm guessing the thieaudio monarch would also be bad for those genres.

I see this and felt the urge to roll everything into a Katamari.

r/Bossfight

End Game doesn't exist as long as you still have curiosity about what other gear potentially will sound like. My curiosity tends to be toward the <$200 outliers. Stuff that "punches above its price tag." I have a Zen Stack and an Ananda and I am very happy with it! But I still get curious about how good the cheaper stuff sounds. I also have curiousity about the more high end stuff too, but I know that the higher prices do not equal a comparable jump in quality over the gear I have, so I tend to leave those alone. I know that I will not be receiving a good enough value for my investment if I go in that direction. The Law of Diminishing Returns keeps me from going too far overboard. "Better" doesn't really exist in this hobby after a certain point. "Different" and "Highly Specialized in Certain Characteristics" is where the very expensive stuff generally goes.

Makes sense. Got bored, want to chase a feeling. Sounds about right

Could you explain this to me as im a stupid person

May I ask you how much emotions I lose with this mid-range equipment?

Where is the path then? I'm sure I feel more happiness finding a good music but new things give a different presentation, sometimes completely another.