Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
- Location
- Out in the sticks...
I currently live in a rented house, detached, middle of nowhere. I got this because I couldn’t find a house to buy after selling my own. I upgraded my speakers and amp to make the most of the situation. The hifi sounds completely awesome. It’s made me want to buy a detached house, but that means more debt. I can buy an attached house and have very little or no debt, but I’ll miss the hifi at high volumes.
I just wondered can decent headphones ever compare to good speakers? This would be a cheaper way, get smaller speakers, and good cans. I know you have the advantage of not to have to deal with the room altering the acoustics that speakers suffer from. I just find it hard to believe that headphones will have the scale or openness of good speakers. But then again I don’t know as the best I have heard are Grado SR80e Prestige series. These are good for around £90, but they are not as good as my Kef R500 speakers. I am thinking of some Sure closed back headphones for around £400 or others in that price range. I’ll probably need a headphone amp too. I need to audition them.
Then again I have cash in the bank, if these buffoons keep on the way they are with this boring Brexit sh1te, I’ll maybe end up with a bargain detached house. I can’t see this though, as the country is built on debt, house prices falling would ruin a lot of people.
I just wondered can decent headphones ever compare to good speakers? This would be a cheaper way, get smaller speakers, and good cans. I know you have the advantage of not to have to deal with the room altering the acoustics that speakers suffer from. I just find it hard to believe that headphones will have the scale or openness of good speakers. But then again I don’t know as the best I have heard are Grado SR80e Prestige series. These are good for around £90, but they are not as good as my Kef R500 speakers. I am thinking of some Sure closed back headphones for around £400 or others in that price range. I’ll probably need a headphone amp too. I need to audition them.
Then again I have cash in the bank, if these buffoons keep on the way they are with this boring Brexit sh1te, I’ll maybe end up with a bargain detached house. I can’t see this though, as the country is built on debt, house prices falling would ruin a lot of people.