From: AdditionalPylon | #052
Just out of curiosity, how significant is the difference between $50-$100 headphones and this 1k setup? You can obviously hear the difference between very cheap and moderately priced headphones - I just wonder how sound quality compares to the price jump.
I think right about $120ish or so you start getting into "wow, so this is how good music can sound?" with music you've been listening to for years. When you hit $400, you hear stuff you've never heard before in those same songs. My setup is amped (that's more than half the cost right now) and amping boosts that by a ton. It starts to sound breathtaking. You'll never want to listen to speakers again.
With something like the Sennheiser HD800 or the Audeze LCD-3 it's absolutely breathtaking. Those headphones are both more than $1000 on their own, with no amps. That being said, the jump from, say, $400-$500 (somethin slightly above mid-fi, but not yet hi-fi) to hi-fi ($1000) is smaller than the jump from lo-fi to mid-fi, in my opinion. At least in regards to wow factor.
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