Koss KPH30i or KSC75 or Porta Pros?

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I am with you

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I plugged my kph30i into my xd05+ yesterday and it made me question everything lol its surprisingly goodā€¦ xd05+ is overkill though lol

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The koss scale pretty well lol

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I felt pretty silly doing it but do not regret it and will do it again lol

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Iā€™m just going to say I use my koss on some pretty high end stuff lol, sounds great :+1:

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This comes to mind :joy:

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The green light makes them look like alien or outer space headphones. :open_mouth:

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it is a fantastic photo lol Iā€™ll get to try the 75ā€™s soon :+1:

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which makes me think even the ifi zen dac would be slightly overkill too as well, should I jump down to dac-x6 or k3? Iā€™m using laptop on board currently.

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I only really have experience with the xd05+ but my question would be are you using other headphones as well with the amp?

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I think Koss is the most power-hungry I have hence why Iā€™m curious for an entry-level dac/amp. Rest are Pro 82, Blon B8, and KZ iem. I also have a 2.1 logitech speaker set that I rarely use, now theyā€™re glorified headphone extender through the remote lol.

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Honestly the better the amp or DAC you use the better really lol.

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Chances are the DAC-X6 sound worse than your laptop.

Fiio K5 Pro is recommended (and cheaper than the Zen dac).
Edit: If you want portability, the XD05 (non-plus!) is even cheaper. And looks like a desktop DAC anyway heh.

Also, if money is a problem, you just can buy a little amp (JDS Atom), straight into your laptop, enjoy the power, then order a DAC in the future (SMSL M100, SMSL Sanskrit 10th, Topping D10, etc). and enjoy clean sound. :slight_smile:

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(Yes I know the Schiit Heresy is now available for the same price as the JDS Atom but for IEMS and a Takstar? holy overkill batman lol. The 1 watt from the Atom is more than enough.)

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The noise floor with iems is slightly lower on the atom from my experience so that works well with iems

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I mean at this point you probably donā€™t need one but if you want one the k5pro comes highly recommended on the forum for sure but itā€™s pretty pricey and (at least in Canada) itā€™s more expensive than the zenā€¦ iā€™m not familiar with the k3 but the fiio btr5 is also highly recommended here and more budget friendly

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I would suggest skipping the k3 and go for the k5 pro or btr 5 instead imo (or the zen dac)

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did you name a budget?

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Oh, yes. The btr5 is a good everythingizer :woozy_face: that can be used as a wired DAC/Amp too as far as I know.

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Oh wow, it can be used as a USB DAC, has dual ESS chipsets, and when plugged in, it shows the sample rate.

Thatā€™s a really great little thing.

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