Do you guys have good headphones?

..or a Class A Solid state "Sugden Le Bijou" which sounds tube:



    












Edited by oliverstoned - November 20 2006 at 10:27

Sennheiser rules ... awesome value for money.

I've got Sennheiser 435:



Best headphones I've ever had.

Actually, it's also a fanstastic preamp, which explain the connectics at the back. You simply link your source(s) to the input(s).
Yes, a dedicated headphones amp is really indispensable and will transcend your headphones. The headphones plugs you'll find on devices are bad.
This one happens to be the best solid state headphones amp. It's sumptuous. Perfect with a HD600.

Have a look at Wes Phillip's chronicle, a reliable writer from "Stereophile" magazine:

    http://www.onhifi.com/product/sugden_bijou.htm





    
    
    
    

Edited by oliverstoned - November 20 2006 at 14:32

No, my headphones suck, but I can't afford a better pair right now. 

I miss my Sennheisers!

oliverstoned wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Sennheiser rules ... awesome value for money.      For one time we agree! HD600 is fantastic, especially drived by a dedicated good amp!

I find myself definitely agreeable to the quality of the HD600, I have had my set for near on two years now and have been working beautifully ever since. Headphones are a must for me with the traveling I do.

Though I have had a little experience with some of the very high line "stax", sneaking in some listens what at stores

Nad is a nice budget musical brand, but Onkyo or Yamaha are not quality brands.

Manufacturers save money on these kinds of stuff.
I've got a Kora tube preamp which features a headphones plug: this is gentle, but no comparison than through the dedicated amp. Same with all the sources i've got featuring a headphone output.

The only way i can prove you is by listening.
Come home and let's hear the differences!

When I used to work at the BBC I was speaking to a studio manager who used to work with Emporer Rosco when he did a Radio 1 show. He was fairly deaf and used a tube amp on his headphones, some frightening old thing with a tremendous output. He used to regularly burn out the voice coils in the ear pieces.

...Everything's tube is not good. If the guy was deaf, it doesn't helped indeed.
Do you confirm that the HD600 is a studio reference?

Sean wrote:

"it all depends on the budhgets of course, but all three of those are much better than Sony or Kenwood (to name those that are generally seen by the non-specialists public as the best) . And those three brands are generally not available in supermarkets and usually only proposed in HI-Fi specialty shops were they are generally the cheaper brands (along with Denon, Nakamichi and Marantz)."

>>>OK, Sony is real bad, Naka only does crap anymore.
Among the affordable widepublic is "Rotel", Nad's ennemy brother.

"as I said this is exactly the type of detail I suspect they do pây attention, because they know HI-Fi buffs use headphones. So this would be too costly a mistake just to save a few Eurocents."

If only...


">> When???"

When you want...Christophe would happy to see you again, and he owns a bigger system than me, including a video projector and a big screen.




Edited by oliverstoned - November 21 2006 at 07:16