Agree with the closed back can recommendation - travisty - Headphone Heights

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Agree with the closed back can recommendation

In Reply to: Help for newbe into headphones posted by ahendler on July 8, 2014 at 19:28:46:

Closed back phones tend to be lower impedance (for any given power requirement) and therefore easier to drive (when the amp is a small portable amp).
I can highly recommend Fostex TH-900s. 'Spensive but wonderful (break in required so if you demo, check that it has had some breakin time). Not fatiguing at all (in terms of sound). Somewhat heavy (you know you are wearing them) but I have not found anything I would rather have (and have demoed extensively with my dealer's blessing - and he has basically everything out there).
I use an iPhone with a Seagate Wireless Plus drive. I have the ADL X1 DAC/amp which will take the digital out of an ipod or iphone, has a great ESS DAC chip, and will drive most low impedance cans well enough. Battery life is decent, not stellar, but 4-5hrs should be fine. I have an external battery (10000 mAh) for the 15hr flights. The electronics all fits into a small-ish flattish bag/case (like a portable filo-fax size case) - i.e. smaller (and lighter) than a hardback novel (though the cans are larger).

FWIW, I can also highly recommend the new Sony player, or another player and the new SONY PHA-2 DAC/amp (or both together). I don't understand why they did the looks of the DAC/amp the way they did, but it sounds really, really good. And it is competitively priced. Not sure how tough it is to get the music into the Sony player but once it is in there it really sounds good. And it is easy to use.

Edits: 07/13/14

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Topic - Help for newbe into headphones - ahendler 19:28:46 07/08/14 (10)

Definitely IEMs in your situation - texanater 10:49:03 07/11/14 (0)

Agree with the closed back can recommendation - travisty 22:08:28 07/10/14 (1)

RE: Agree with the closed back can recommendation - Kberube80 19:47:22 07/17/14 (0)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - Frihed89 17:45:59 07/10/14 (3)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - ahendler 18:17:30 07/10/14 (2)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - PAR 10:22:15 07/11/14 (0)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - Douger 04:55:46 07/11/14 (0)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - rrsands 06:12:10 07/09/14 (1)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - kh6idf 19:10:57 07/11/14 (0)

RE: Help for newbe into headphones - PAR 23:05:16 07/08/14 (0)

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Agree with the closed back can recommendation - travisty 22:08:28 07/10/14 (1)

RE: Agree with the closed back can recommendation - Kberube80 19:47:22 07/17/14 (0)

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