Do you wish you had an endgame headphone?

Headphones Headphone Discussion / Help
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I’m sort of feeling this way with the TR-X00 purple heart. I know there are “better” headphones but I just love the sound of these. The bass is thick and rich but never bloated (at least now that they are broken in) with GREAT slam and detail while being able to reach down into the 10-15hz region. The mids are still rather forward for a v-shaped sound signature and have no issues. The highs are perfect. No sibilance unless it’s in the song and even then it never hurts. The detail retrieval is great with a good amount of air frequencies. Nothing ever feels like it’s taking away from anything else. I have yet to hear a genre that I don’t enjoy with these. Maybe it’s because I played tuba in middle school and high school so I am used to the orchestral sound having some more bass, but even when listening to classical/jazz I never feel like the bass is overbearing.

Despite how much I love these headphones I still would like to at least try something in the $1000+ range like a ZMF, focal, audeze, higher end Fostex, etc. But to be honest that is only really curiosity and not really a desire for something “better”.

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Kinda wish I could afford a shangrila sr or aperion estat

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Go for a Sonoma m1 instead, they can be found used for reasonable. I still really think it’s great

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I just wish they sold a version without the built in dac for cheaper. I just dont need it.

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To slightly derail this topic, I saw a question on another forum board that interests me.
If you won a drawing that awarded you with $10k that you must spend on audio gear, what would you spend it on? Please assume you currently own no gear and you can spend it on headphone or speaker gear.

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You kinda need the dac because the entire thing is DSP’d, it uses digital correction (not a bad think whatsoever)

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Guttenberg at Canjam asking people best headphone they ever heard:

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I’ll take the Tia Trio please :smiley:

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Yeah, I watched it this morning, the guy from Audio46 said (and this guy has Lots of cans to try at his work) that his favourite was the Dt990. Lol.

I always watch Gutenberg’s videos, always cool, always smiling.

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No such thing as endgame…end-wallet is a real thing though.

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I have two. That’s the problem.

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which two Luige?

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Focal Clear and ZMF Verite. Elex is totally up there too for me.

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Does the D10 improve the sound of the Koss 95X?

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D10…meaning the DAC? if you’re going from PC audio, you should have a marked improvement. but I’d say look at the newer D10s that was just launched.

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Yeah STAX SRM-D10. Do you mean just buy a new D10 or is there a new model that isn’t on the site yet?

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oooh, sorry. I thought you were referring to the SMSL D10 DAC. you’re talking about energizers. I would upgrade to the SRM-323 or the SRM-232s it replaced. way more power than the D10.

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No problem, I was replying to a guy from March. I’d like to upgrade to a 323 but it’s to big. I’m going to be moving into a much smaller place in a couple months and if anything I need to downsize my setup. I’m totally happy with the Koss energizer but was wondering if there would be an improvement with the D10

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I don’t know, I’m afraid. just know you’ll have to buy a $100 cable that makes the 95x compatible with the Stax connectors.

and if you have space constraints, get a 232s. they are tiny compared to the 323. I have one and it’s about 5" x 5’" x 1.5".

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I’ll look into that, thanks