105 AER

Hang out on r/headphones or r/BudgetAudiophile and you'll find lots of us. It's amazing how spoiled we are nowadays for good sound. A Qobuz subscription (hi-res streaming), modest headphone amp/dac (like from Fiio) and some mid-fi cans like Meze 105 AERs or Hifiman Sundaras and you're in the top 5%

Don't spend half your budget on a DAC. Get a better headphone. You should be able to get an open-box Meze 105 AER for around 300 euros. For around $200 you can get the Fiio FT1 Pro or the Hifiman Edition XS, and for $160 or so the Hifiman Sundara. Personally I'd go for the FT1 Pro and a $9 JCALLY do

If you could pull off an Asgard instead with the Mimir, I think you’d be really happy. You might be more ready for a headphone upgrade than your dac and amp tbh. Try a planar. Or actually I think I saw that the Meze 105. AER is on sale on Apos and Headphones.com for $299 which is a good price. If yo

I just got the 105 AER,it's a pretty sweet headphone. I was always interested in Meze and them going down to $299 was worth taking a chance on. I'm really not interested in speakers. I have my old bedroom system (B&W Nautilus 805s,Rogue Audio preamp,B&K amp,Rotel CD player) sitting in my closet. I g

Thanks for the information. I bought an open box Meze 109 off of Apos combined with a discount code for like $570 and also got the boom mic. Now I plan on selling all my gaming headsets, the Kithara, Maxwell 2, and PC38x. My friend uses a DT1990 Pro for gaming and a noise cancelling headphones for w