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Headphones to replace speakers
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:14 pm
by Rocker
I am downsizing everything including our hi-fi system and am wondering if it would be satisfactory to replace our system with a headphone amp and cans. What are the better products within a fairly decent budget? Thanks
Re: Headphones to replace speakers
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 2:22 pm
by Derek
Re: Headphones to replace speakers
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 1:35 pm
by DaveF
Rocker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:14 pm
I am downsizing everything including our hi-fi system and am wondering if it would be satisfactory to replace our system with a headphone amp and cans. What are the better products within a fairly decent budget? Thanks
Hi Rocker,
I've been a Stax headphone user for a few years now and I've gone through 3 different sets. Will headphones replace a typical speaker system? The answer is no, not really. Rather they will give you a very different presentation. With headphones you wont really get the wide soundstage and depth of a well integrated room and speaker system. To what extent will depend on the headphones themselves.
With headphones, you wont get any room interactions or reflections, things that can sometimes ruin or take away from a speaker setup in the wrong room. So there is advantage there. Plus late night listening sessions is always an option.
You can drop serious money on a headphone setup and the Stax in particular do benefit from very decent implication. Just a note on Stax, they need a special type of amp called an Energizer. A normal headphone amp will not work with them.
If you are interested in my Stax set that's for sale, let me know. If not there are few other options that I'd recommend.
Re: Headphones to replace speakers
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:00 pm
by HiFiFan
Rocker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:14 pm
I am downsizing everything including our hi-fi system and am wondering if it would be satisfactory to replace our system with a headphone amp and cans. What are the better products within a fairly decent budget? Thanks
If you could swing it I recommend going to here:
https://canjamglobal.com/shows/london2025/
You will have the chance to experience all the best in headphones and headphone application.
I have gone to 2 of these and can recommend.