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grm.....I just got Grado GR10E phones.  They are in ear, yet if teamed with a really good amp, are faster, cleaner, more solid low end, etc. than my 650's

Hi stringreen,
Thanks for the tip regarding the Grado! I myself prefer over the ear phones. I tried a nice set of Cardas in ear phones and found them to be a bit heavy and not quite as comfortable as over the ear phones. What I like about the HD600's is that they are very comfortable, but they are also a open-back design and do not block environmental noise. If I were to look at obtaining a new set of phones, I would be looking for something over the ear, but I think I might try a new amp first. What do you think?

@grm,

"If I were to look at obtaining a new set of phones, I would be looking for something over the ear, but I think I might try a new amp first. What do you think?"


To my mind closed back over-ear phones are superior in every way.

Apart from sound quality.

Even dirt cheap open back designs like the Sennheiser px100s or Koss Porta Pros can give far more expensive closed back designs a good run for their money.

It’s even worse than comparing box speakers to open baffle designs. It’s difficult to beat a driver that’s just centimetres from your ear drum with no closed-off earcup adding any unwanted reflections.

Having said that there are decent designs like the Beyerdynamic dt770s. You could get the ones with the most suitable impedance for your needs but it would be a little unfair to expect them to be on par with your HD600s.

https://www.kenrockwell.com/audio/beyer/dt-770.htm

Was listening g to my Quicksilver Amp last night.... I bought it sight unseen.... based on my experience with Mikes amps.... it is a great amp...it bests my Neve RNHP and the amp in my RME adi-2 DAC.

The RME / Quicksilver combo kills it ....  I also use the RME as my system's DAC , connected to my c-j preamps Tape Out.   

Hi,
My main system Amp has no pre-outs or tape loop, but I think it's possible to convert one of it's single ended inputs to something called pass-through for HT use, whatever that means?? Right now my streamer has two outputs, one balanced going directly to my main amp and the other, single ended, going directly to my headphone amp. I am very interested in the Quick Silver headphone amp but I noticed it does not have a pass-through output which I need for my PC speakers. I guess I need to research my Amp to see how to configure one of it's inputs to pass-through, that would fix my issue and make the Quick Silver viable.