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I have a pair of headphones that cost several thousand $. I can hear things I haven't heard before in songs that I've listened to since I was a teenager.

Is it worth the money? Honestly I'm not sure. I probably could've gotten there with an investment of $500-1000. But now I have a beautiful piece of hardware that might last a decade or two.

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That's the quality of the reproduction though, not the stuff you put into it. Agreed, I have Shure semi-opens I use for production that you hear things in that you wouldn't hear in buds but that's still just via regular old 16bit/44Khz WAV.

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The Stax electrostatic headphones ("earspeakers") have that effect whenever i put them on.

https://www.focal.com/headphones/stellia/

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