I've recently picked up a set of Mr. Speakers Alpha Prime cans to use mainly at work. I'm using the cans in balanced mode in combination with a Pono Player and Moon Audio Blue Dragon cable.
The sound of this combo is nothing short of startling despite the Pono player being a little underpowered for the cans. I'm hearing things I never knew existed in very familiar albums. While this is great it's also a bit depressing at the same time when I consider the cost comparison between the portable setup and my main rig.
Granted, the headphones can't come close to reproducing the same scale of the main rig but it certainly seems to have a leg up on detail retrieval.
I keep telling myself that this outcome is to be expected when dealing with very good headphones considering there immediate nature of being attached directly to my ears but it still bugs me a bit when I think about it.
Has anyone else experienced the same thing when comparing their main rig to headphones? I'm especially curious to hear the experience from those who have top quality main rigs and have done a similar comparison.
My main rig consists of the following:
Classe CP-800 PreAmp
4 X Hypex NCore NC400 MonoBlocs
Meitner MA-1 DAC
B&W 803 D2 towers
Could it be that what I'm hearing is manly the differences between a Planer Magnetic Speaker verses a box speaker? I wonder, as I've never really heard a good Planer Mag setup before until these cans arrived.
Thanks for any info and experiences you can provide
The sound of this combo is nothing short of startling despite the Pono player being a little underpowered for the cans. I'm hearing things I never knew existed in very familiar albums. While this is great it's also a bit depressing at the same time when I consider the cost comparison between the portable setup and my main rig.
Granted, the headphones can't come close to reproducing the same scale of the main rig but it certainly seems to have a leg up on detail retrieval.
I keep telling myself that this outcome is to be expected when dealing with very good headphones considering there immediate nature of being attached directly to my ears but it still bugs me a bit when I think about it.
Has anyone else experienced the same thing when comparing their main rig to headphones? I'm especially curious to hear the experience from those who have top quality main rigs and have done a similar comparison.
My main rig consists of the following:
Classe CP-800 PreAmp
4 X Hypex NCore NC400 MonoBlocs
Meitner MA-1 DAC
B&W 803 D2 towers
Could it be that what I'm hearing is manly the differences between a Planer Magnetic Speaker verses a box speaker? I wonder, as I've never really heard a good Planer Mag setup before until these cans arrived.
Thanks for any info and experiences you can provide