After more listening Iām going to go out on a limb here and say that if classical music is your jam, the DT880/600 is the thing to get.
Listening now to Bernstein conducting Sibelius symphonies on Tidal, and wow. Wonderful sound, great sound stage and imaging, and revealing in some interesting ways. I think, for example, I just heard the turning of music score pages.
So I would say that the e30 and actually instead of an atom a magni 3+ or liquid spark can get it done, but you do get a sizable improvement going with an asgard 3 imo, also it would give a nice performance bump to your sundara as well so I would say itās pretty worthwhile, but if you are pressed for funds the magni3+/ls would work pretty well
@dcofficehack Yes, mostly classical and female vocals (Barielles, Barlow,etc.) Just feel like the 58x Iāve heard and the Koss ksc 75 gives me a more forward or just different presentation than the Sundaraā¦dynamic vs Planar. Have to go, but will appreciate any comments. Thanks.
Itās just surprisingly good for the price imo, very impressive
+1 for the 880. I mean, I love my HD6XX. But since I got into the 880 and recently the T1.2 ā¦
I have no intention to grab my 6XX. But I used the 6XX for nearly two years soā¦great headphone but now I would definetly vote for the 880. So great!
OK, thanks, everyone. Itās my birthday today, so I may just treat myself to an Asgard 3. 880 later ( or maybe even also?) Hmmm. 
Happy birthday! 
Buying the A3 AND 880 today would be like having your cake and eating it too!
Also, Iāve been listening to the Asgard today as I donāt yet have a balanced cable to play a borrowed set of Audeze on my Liquid Plat. Every time I go back to the Asgard I think āDamn, this is such a good amp for $200.ā
@WaveTheory And Iām already full of cake (and my homemade reubens with sister and daughter.) VERY tempting. and thanks for the birthday wishes. Iāve been around a long time; have sung, played, conducted and listened to a LOT of music, but I have never enjoyed listening as much as I do now. All this technology and refinement of equipment, streaming at the touch of a keyboard and Amazing level of detail, richness and overall quality is absolutely wonderful to me, who started out with monaural 78ās!!
Cool. I can appreciate what you say. Iāve always loved music and audio. It got even crazier when I first got a Tidal subscription. Then the music I could listen to was no longer constrained by what my album/file-buying budget could allow. I went even deeper into audiophilia. No regrets.
Wait till you listen to Tidal through Roonā¦
āand thatās about the time she walked away from me!ā
Nice write-up! 
Good stuff. You made me love my 880ās even more now lmao. Thanks for nipping my curiosity quite nicely, you saved me from some buyers remorse 
I appreciate the words, but also thereās no substitute for your own ears.
Thatās the thing about not having the option of ever getting to demo stuff. I just try to work with whatās said and what I know fro my own experiences. I am bad with this audiophile descriptions on how something sounds but I can grasp what you said about the 880 and it feels inline with my own experience. To that effect I feel Iād be somewhat disappointed. Maybe if I didnāt have the 880s but who knows?
I hear you on that. I also have to buy sight unseen. Some big disappointments, but the 880ās are not one of them. 
A downside to my DT880/600 - Asgard 3 combo: Some recordings simply are better than others. Iāve been able to hear the difference before, but now the difference is in greater relief. I am becoming pickier. And thereās no way to predict which will be good or bad: listening on Tidal to different versions of, say the same Bach cantata, I find meaningful differences in recording quality, but information like record labels or orchestras donāt predict the sound.