ever heard of cable riser welcome to audiophilia

I just bought the SJY Starry Night, #15 on the website. It looks good IMO, I love the green on wood. I heard it was Neutral sounding. I've seen 2 reviews, one from ZEOS, and one from this reddit. Yeah lol, maybe its gonna be bad, but I think its gonna be good...hopefully...

If you want to compare IEMs to headphones, you should look into custom IEMs. They have some ambience that regular IEMs don't.

As a relatively fresh owner I say the overlap of sound quality, looks and comfort is great.

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hahaha why does it look so janky lmao

Yea idk what they mean the LCD-X stock tuning is absolutely muffled as fuck. But since they respond so well to EQ I don’t rlly hold that flaw against them. If ur spending that much ur already working on improving the margins of sound quality and EQ is just another part of that, not a major inconvenience at all

Point me to one major record label that regularly uses binaural recording in their albums

SS discrete amps are designed to avoid capacitors in the signal path, lots of feedback to minimize distortion (see Schiit's topology with the Magni+: "Topology: Fully discrete, fully complementary all-bipolar, symmetrical current-feedback design with driver stage and Vbe multiplier, no capacitors in the signal path and DC servo") while tubes are the opposite. OTL tube amps have capacitors in the signal path (except for Schiit Folkvangr) which imparts its own distortion characteristics to the sound

In terms of sound, my Tin T3+ may not be as detailed as my Hifiman HE400se, but it is tuned way better. For all day use, the Philips SHP9600 with Misodiko cooling gel pads is my favorite.

For what I own, I definitely love Timeless > HD6XX > Sundara > Aria > PR1 Pro.

I love my hifiman ananda they have very good soundstage and details

Most of the cheap tube amps are just op amps with tube for show. It cringes me so much when ppl praise those $100 tUbE amp for having “tube sound”. And tube sound are just distortions created by introducing tubes into the circuitry.

Tubes add distortion. But it's the kind that sounds good.

There’s some very advanced vsts out there for music production in terms of introducing tube emulation, tape, triode, whatever. I’d say 99% of modern mixes that are produced in the digital realm use these. If you’re using a colorful tube amp, you’re just introducing even more distortion to the mix before it makes it to your ears.

Can confirm.

don't know how reliable of a rule of thumb that is - a complex amp with
plenty of feedback will likely have much less distortion than a dead-simple tube amp that does not employ feedback at all.

Mmm... sprinkles.

You can simulate a tube amp in software using VST plugins

I usually play any music I have from Foobar, so I can look for options and/or plugins that do what you mentioned. I didn't even know that existed until now!

If you dont mind buying used you may get lucky and be able to try a tube amp for low risk and sell it again for the same price, assuming demoing equipment local isnt possible. Otherwise, I dont notice a huge difference.

Basically this. In the most basic way I can describe it, I found the biggest changes in sound came from what tubes I rolled. Some sound like shit, some laid back, some no different than a good clean solid state. In the end, it was fun rolling but after blowing through a dozen or more tubes only to find out I liked tubes that were just a really good solid state sound... it was a huge waste of money, I could have just scooped up a really nice SS amp and have been done with it rather than the hundreds of dollars in tubes I wasted my money on including the amps.

Meze 99 Classics look great and, imo, sound great.

If you have a DAW program on your computer like garage band or logic, try loading in a song you're familiar with and then put an exciter VST on the track, and dial in like 1-5% tube emulation

I doubt my ears are completely golden as well. I'll see if I have the opportunity to demo them, but if not, I'll look into solid state combos that would be able to drive any headphone I own well.