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If you are serious about headphone listening...

You owe it to yourself to audition a set of planar magnetic cans and a set of electrostatic headphones.

There are lots of dynamic headphones around but until you try the planar magnetic and electrostatic models you will not really know what you like. And you will not know what to spend your money on.

Also do not miss the addition of a good headphone amp. If you select a set of dynamic headphones or end up with planar magnetic headphones, you won't get the best from them until you drive them with a good quality headphone amp.

Some integrated, pre-amps and receivers have a decent headphone section but you won't know what a good set of headphones can do until you drive them with a quality amp. It an analogous to using a set of speakers with a cheap amp. It just doesn't turn out very well.

If you go with electrostatic headphones you need a driver for those phones. That piece of gear is sometimes sold along with the headphones but there are exceptions.

A warning should go here. Once you start down the planar magnetic and/or electrostatic headphone path you will find yourself looking at some pretty expensive gear. There are high end dynamic headphones but the planar magnetic and electrostatic models are sometimes expensive.

It is up to you but you should at least audition some of these higher end stuff. You may find something that you are willing to go the extra dollars for.

Serious headphones are in their heyday now. There are lots of really good headphones on the market. Not all of them are really expensive and there are some models that perform way above their asking price.

See if you can find a dealer that carries some of these headphones so you can see which models suits your tastes. Things have changed over the last 10 years and there are lots of really good models to choose from.

Ed
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof

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