I knew too little to know that this could be a shortcoming. The other flaw was one that is probably obvious to most readers here: using the phone's DAC. Turns out that the broken down pads had altered the sonic performance in a very negative way that I hadn't realized. ![]() One I was fortunate to realize by happenstance: because the ear pads had broken down so much over the years that it got to be so bad that the headphones started to hurt my ears by way of the inner planar surface smashing my earlobes down, I was driven to order replacement ear pads (I had to cut the old ones off and glue these on). But as time went by and I learned more and more online about the wonderful world of analog audio, I became aware of two major flaws in my setup. ![]() ![]() Decades old Sony MDR-V600 headphones driven by an old HeadRoom Total Airhead amp, plugged into the 1/8" output of my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone. ![]() For years I found that even though I wanted to listen to music in settings where headphones were the only viable format, I just couldn't tolerate my meager setup for longer than a half-hour at best.
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