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You have great taste in music, my man!

As a humble 'good enough' audiophile, I have a fleet of Fiio devices and assorted cans and IEMs, but never have enough spare cash to consider a "real" audiophile setup. I've had experience with studio monitors and really good audio coming through mixing desks and what not, but I've never had the opportunity to try a real expensive kit.

Flac is my source, decent DAC, decent cans, good enough I guess

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Audiophile's are famous for spending a lot of money on "snake oil" to get results that objectively cannot be heard and then claim the sound is better. Sometimes the sound is better, but the human ear cannot tell (lab equipment can). Of even the best lab equipment cannot find a difference.

Good enough if you are happy is good enough. Maybe you can do better in ways you can hear, but with "Flac is my source, decent DAC, decent cans" you are probably getting close to the edge of what the human ear can hear anyway (assuming good audio in that Flac, and the DAC/cans really are decent as you claim)

For me personally, a little cannabis or psilocybin is 10x more effective at improving listening experience than any of the lengths that more serious audiophiles typically go to.

I recently got into making some sort of budget hifi setup, and found audiosciencereview.com quite helpful - a good amount of reviewed gadgets with focus on measurements. Ended up with kali lp-6v2 speakers and a SMSL SU-1 dac. Please don't tell me I screwed up. :-)

I have a pair of Hifiman Sundara that I take out for proper listening (they’re a bit heavy). But more often than not I listen through a pair of creative pebble which is more than enough for me.

My favorite IEMs are hifiman, great sound stage

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