I'm really excited to moving to a new condo. However, I'm also really bummed that it's the end of my audio system since it'll disturb the neighbors. I'm only planning on staying at this condo for 2 years, so my system will go into storage.
I have terrabytes of multichannel audio on my file server. Of course, some multichannel files will downmix properly into 2-channel, but I know there are some that don't have that encoding and will probably not sound proper. I don't think there's any solutions for getting proper native surround on headphones? Is there? I would imagine headphones would have to connect via USB or HDMI for surround (if even possible). I know of the cheap surround headphones that emulate surround, but I don't like those.
So....what are my options? What headphones would you recommend? Budget: Under $3,000.
And I have an Exasound E38 DAC which has a headphone jack. I'm presuming this would be sufficient? Of course, I'm also open to headphones that need a power amplifier (like the old Stax).
I have terrabytes of multichannel audio on my file server. Of course, some multichannel files will downmix properly into 2-channel, but I know there are some that don't have that encoding and will probably not sound proper. I don't think there's any solutions for getting proper native surround on headphones? Is there? I would imagine headphones would have to connect via USB or HDMI for surround (if even possible). I know of the cheap surround headphones that emulate surround, but I don't like those.
So....what are my options? What headphones would you recommend? Budget: Under $3,000.
And I have an Exasound E38 DAC which has a headphone jack. I'm presuming this would be sufficient? Of course, I'm also open to headphones that need a power amplifier (like the old Stax).