btooze;342302 Wrote: > My Duet is connected directly into a pair of Acoustic Energy Aego M > speakers. For late night listening I use my Sennheiser PX 200 > headphones connected to the headphone jack on the Aego Ms. > > I would like to improve my headphone listening and would like advice on > the following options. > > 1) Purchase a CMoy Headphone amp (use between Aego Ms and > Sennheisers). > 2) Upgrade the headphones to Grado SR60 / SR135 (connected directly to > Aego Ms). > 3) Buy a Beresford TC-7510 DAC and use the DAC headphone output with > the Sennheisers. > 4) Any combination of the above. > > If I go for the DAC option, will I notice any sound improvement through > the speakers compared to the stock output of the Duet.
For what it's worth, I would say go with the Grado (or Alessandro) headphones first and then get a better external DAC or DAC/headpone amp combo unit after you've had a chance to put aside some more money. I don't think that a DAC in the price range of the Beresford is going to offer enough of a sonic improvement over the Duet's stock DAC to be worth the expensive. OTOH, a pair of Grado SR125s (or the Alessandro MS1's) will offer enough of a significant improvement over your present headphones to make their purchase worthwhile. You should probably be looking at external DACs and DAC/headpone amp combos in the $400 (and up) price range in order to realize enough of an improvement over the Duet's DAC to make their purchase worthwhile. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52848
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