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It's a good rule that that the more components after the input tube stage (e.g. 300 B tube SET amps), the more colored it sounds because, transformers and capacitors will have their own distortion characteristics that will affect the timbre of the mids. Some OTL tubes are more "solid state" sounding such as the Schiit Valhalla 2 because it does not have output transformer and the capacitor plus the tube used have more "linear" tonality/signature than others. Other OTL amp such as Feliks Audio Euphoria have a power tube that has distortion characteristics that affects the timbre of the mids so not all OTL will sound solid state-y

Don't ever look into essential oils and how those are marketed.

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Some may have high distortion.

Some may have have high output impedance.

These things may cause audible changes (emphasis on: they may also not).

Apple dongle dac is more than good enough

I’m going back to solid state. The beauty of tubes for me was always the glowing lights and the novelty of it. But with my current layout I need something that doesn’t get hot that can hide under my shelf on my desk. In a roundabout answer, I don’t think they matter that much (all of my daily headphones are high impedance Sennheisers) as I can’t really hear much of a difference. I also certainly don’t have golden ears so that’s just my take on it. If you think they look cool go for it, if you want it for sound change try to demo it first.

You forgot to add Dreamcatcher.

At some point, I'll have to see if I can find any headphone shops around that allow me to test various pairs and amps together. It definitely sounds like a safer bet to have some in-person exposure for comparison than just jumping in blind and hoping I've stumbled into diamonds.

I am wondering how much of those cables are being returned :P

Tube amps have far higher harmonic/intermodulation distortion, which tends to rise steadily with output level (whereas solid state amps are typically very clean until they clip); and they usually have more frequency response distortion. And a little bit of distortion has been known to sound pleasant.

People often make claims about how tubes have more even-order harmonic distortion (which is supposedly more euphonic to the ear) than transistors, but that seems to be BS, tube amps are all over the place here. In the end I'm not sure how useful verbal descriptions of sound will be without actually listening to them.

bruh LCD X is high end Audeze.

my favorite headphone is the tangzu wan’er iem followed closely by the HD650 over ears…real fancy I know right?

Can't wait to build my audiophile pc for 35000 dollars

That's all good to know, thanks for the info! I'll make sure to look into solid state options and see what might be ideal for me in case I do that instead. I might not want to go overboard for something that has a very small/subtle difference with much higher cost.

The amazon starter pack

>First, I think Variations is a bit genre-dependent

I wholeheartedly agree.

I think the Variations gets a lot of flak (compared to other US$500 IEMs such as the SA6) because it has been wrongly hyped by some reviewers as a good "all-rounder". I believe it's definitely not.

Well, if you like it's tone or listen to a few key genres it could certainly be, but the sub-bass if definitely not for everyone.

Which tube amps tend to lean more towards the colored end? I've looked through plenty of threads with people talking about them, but there was too much headphone jumbo for me to personally understand how certain tube amps sound.

Because you have literally infinite options as opposed to a couple of dB extra in the bass?

Why is tuning a headphone with software EQ better?

Yeah, I went ahead and took the "buy once, cry once" approach with my cables after my second set failed in one channel.

there's hundreds of articles/vids out there describing the difference.

I was going to buy a sundara but decided to spend an aditional 400 bucks of my local currency on the edition xs solely because i think the oval earcups look cooler lol

wait for the audiophile mouse.

Even thought I only bought Moondrop Sparks their rather cheap bluetooth option, I love them. Despite the fact that bluetooth-connections lower the sound quality drastically they still managed to make them sound so unbelievable good. So now I'm also a little fanboy of the company xD.

The IE600 is great but they definitely have some QC issues with driver failure. It seems to mostly happen within the 1st month on most of the issues I've seen. Sennheiser should deal with the problem and it has a 2 year warranty, it sucks they've been so unresponsive. Personally I would just re-buy for less and hope you don't get another lemon.