The inconvenient truth, kiss mod HD650 will always be in purgatory where stock HD650 can fly to heaven. To its credit kiss HD650 is far better on low and mid-fi gear than stock HD650 can ever be yet hi-end or end game gear is where HD650 will truly shine and be above any mod.
If you could sell each headphone for $75 (I quickly counted 50+ of them), you'd get ca. $4K, enough for a brand new Starlett + used BF2, HD 600, & Auteur or Eikon
Makes me wonder which would be more pathological - this mid-fi hoard fest, or if someone had the equivalent # of TOTL headphones? Guessing most of us would envy/admire the latter (myself included) but wouldn't that just be the rich man's variant of the same disease?
Some call this mid-fi purgatory, but honestly I had way more fun in this hobby a decade ago playing around with different headphones that I could afford rather than pinching pennies for the higher tier stuff. I also suffer from way more nervosa with the expensive stuff and with that also comes a certain amount of snobbery that I'm not proud of.
@Soups - very true, but for TOTL, it kind of makes more sense in a weird way b/c there is no where else to go except laterally.
w/ regards to "the disease" - there are some hobbies where I can I understand why "100" is "finally getting started" but for me headphones is not one of those hobbies.
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