Best compact headphone listening solution?

[RTHerringbone]

These FiiO FT7 headphones and this desktop setup are bloody good. I've just bought a new record (Liquid Skin by Gomez) which I listened to downstairs on the main system.

You need to listen to it to understand it - basically some very talented musicians / singers having fun with real freedom and creativity. It sounded fantastic downstairs and I'm listening upstairs now on the new setup to try to gauge how good it is, and it's really impressive.

Obviously headphones can't and won't recreate a Hi-Fi soundscape, but they're having a damn good go and manage to handle the various tones and wide variety of instruments expertly - instrument positioning is all very tangible too. Superb stuff.

 

[Jasonovich]

These FiiO FT7 headphones and this desktop setup are bloody good. I've just bought a new record (Liquid Skin by Gomez) which I listened to downstairs on the main system.

You need to listen to it to understand it - basically some very talented musicians / singers having fun with real freedom and creativity. It sounded fantastic downstairs and I'm listening upstairs now on the new setup to try to gauge how good it is, and it's really impressive.

Obviously headphones can't and won't recreate a Hi-Fi soundscape, but they're having a damn good go and manage to handle the various tones and wide variety of instruments expertly - instrument positioning is all very tangible too. Superb stuff.

I love the intimacy you get with headphones.
Planars can sound like near field speakers and very good at spacing of instruments. My Hifimans have tamper, a lot of layers, which are hard to find on dynamic headphones.

Very glad you're pleased with your FiiOs, it's worth the investment. 😊