I for example love my Sony XBA-Z5's with Kimber and simple Sony NW-ZX507, and when had a chance to buy super cheap used IER-Z1R I felt like its a less musical set of IEM's to my ears and no review would prove me otherwise. On the other hand, I do feel we search for stuff we are slightly used to.

Same goes for speakers or amps ( Its really cool to watch some reviews of Class D Purifi amps from NAD, like M33 or C298, ones that sound perfect, and yet many reviewers say that they feel left unimpressed with music that comes out of them, while others do love older tube amps and love them ). I am not experienced enough to go in to battle with anyone here on whats right, but I did play with some of DAC's for headphones, some of the more expensive some less, but what sometimes shocked me, was when I did try some dac's with super clean precise sound after a deep breath of awe on how clean it did sounded, I often felt left wit no emotions listening to the music, as opposed to some shittier stuff giving me, personally, subjectively, a more emotional experience.

I think it is a sole of Audiophile story in 39 pages.

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