I still live at home with the folks, i can normaly listen till around 10.00pm before the volume starts getting noticed, i dont mind turning it down, it's very frustrating, the elders have suggested ear phones, i dont really know much about cans, i would like to listen to music late into the night, i dont want to spend to much, i was thinking of addding a v-can 2 with a pair of goldring ns-1000, would that be a good starting point? i will have to connect them up to my dac before i listen, bit of a pain, but if it means i can listen without a knock on the door it will be worth it.
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Grado SR80's...
Cant say a bad word about them and very glad I bought them a few months back...
Volume isnt an issue in our house as there's only myself and the wife but sometimes I like to read with some music on so I just bang the cans on my head, forget about the book and fall asleep blissfully unaware of what's going on around me haha...
I dont use a DAC/headphone amp currently but when I get the Cyrus system up & running I'll be looking at getting something along those lines to manage the cans better
Cant say a bad word about them and very glad I bought them a few months back...
Volume isnt an issue in our house as there's only myself and the wife but sometimes I like to read with some music on so I just bang the cans on my head, forget about the book and fall asleep blissfully unaware of what's going on around me haha...
I dont use a DAC/headphone amp currently but when I get the Cyrus system up & running I'll be looking at getting something along those lines to manage the cans better
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I am using AKG 702 ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/AKG-K702-Open-Back-Reference-Headphones/dp/B001RCD2DW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322126506&sr=8-2 )
It is very detailed and with excellent soundstaging but you need to have a relatively powerful headphone amp to drive it. I also changed the headphone chord for better result.
It is very detailed and with excellent soundstaging but you need to have a relatively powerful headphone amp to drive it. I also changed the headphone chord for better result.
My amp has a tape output, so can i run the v-can 2 through that according to this http://www.musicalfidelity.com/products/V-Series/V-CAN/VCAN%20II%20manual%20issue%202.pdf Ok, so the v-can 2 goes into the tape output socket, that will then pick up th music signal coming from my dac and play it through the v-can 2?
A little more expensive than the Goldring are the Grado SR80i that I have. They really are as good as the reviews say, effortless heaven. I use them plugged into a re-clocked Marantz CD50se powered using RA Reference Power Cord and have never needed to go down the headphone amp route.
Having done a bit of research it seem's the v-can 2 will work fine through the tape out on the caspian, only thing now is decide on which phones to buy, the goldring ns-1000 are top of my list as they can be had for 60 pounds, that's a saving of 90 pound's!
I dont mind if they leak any noise as its just me in my room, i will buy the goldring's, there a bargain.
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