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What music is best for life in a tiny box?

The US Navy is sending me to Japan. My family is going to stay here in the States. That means I get to live on the ship! Imagine a tiny stateroom; that will be home for the next 2 years.

So..obviously my vinyl collection will stay home. I am thinking of going completely medialess digital.

What do you recommend for:
DAC (are there any that can read from an external hard-drive?)
Headphone Amp?
Headphones?

Portable media player (when i get away from the ship. Must read FLAC, no Apple! :) )

Since my system will be so small, I think I can afford somewhat better gear. I am thinking in the $2k range.

Your thoughts?
affejunge
paul_graham
197 posts
 
Dude....whatever about your music....enjoy.

Thank you for your service.
rdavwhitaker
173 posts
 
Amen to that.

The Creek OBH-21SE is an excellent small headphone amp, and works well with Sennheiser 600 or 650 headphones, which I think are among the best available for combination of sound and comfort.

The portable unit that comes immediately to mind is the Hi-fi Man HM-801, which handles FLAC. As an added bonus, it also is a DAC with USB and Mini-coax inputs. You can read about it in great detail at audioadvisor.com.

Others will undoubtedly provide excellent alternatives.
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roscoeiii
1,155 posts
 
I think that you might have better luck with this question on Head-Fi. A couple questions that come to mind. Do you need the amp and headphones and digital player to be portable? Do you need your headphones to block out noise? When you say a DAC reading from an external hard drive, do you mean without any computer involved? Do you have tube vs solid state preferences on the amp?

For $2k you can put together a great headphone set-up.
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