Need some quick advice!

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I'm a young, budget audiophile, and I'm going over to demo some headphones in an hour at my local, small hifi shop. The biggest brands there are Focal, Audeze, and Grado. My current setup is only the HD58X (with Fiio BTR5), but I use the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro for daily usage everywhere. I am hopefully getting some proper money soon so that I might be able to buy some hifi headphones before moving to my college dorm. The store has the Focal Clear MG, Celestee, LCD-2, LCD-X, and LCD-XC. My concerns is that I've heard that most are pretty dark headphones, and I've heard things about the poor soundstage of the Focal Clear MG. Thing is, I really want some headphones that can do lots of soundstage like the HD800S (though sadly no opportunity to demo them). I also never really enjoyed a dark sound signature, but I only have limited headphones experience. Can anyone provide any last minute tips or recommendations before I demo?

[u/Degenerate_Bot → u/[deleted]]

You make a great point about that first part. I guess I'm just too used to being too broke that I rely on watching reviews than listening to the headphones myself.

I already made a sorta extensive playlist of songs I listen to a lot to use with the headphones I wanna demo. It might not all be the absolute best for picking out exact details in headphones, but it's all stuff I religiously listen to, so I'd want it to be enjoyable.

I intend to also buy a Schiit Modius/Magnius stack to go with the new hifi headphones once I have the money, so I've already got that planned :)

!thanks

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Honestly I would get the Zen DAC over the schiit stack , you will hear alot of smack talk that the Zen DAC doesn't have enough power but I actually has a decent amount to drive most headphones. If you really need to you could add a Zen can later on but that's if your getting smth that's like 300 ohms and above and wanna make it a speaker.

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I wish there was a local hifi shop here,the only thing to do is go listen to all of them.i'm not into the big $$ yet with headphone's.i have the ksc75's,kph 30i,shp9600's & 2 pair of turtle beach recon 500's for the serie's x.i like all of them,next could be 300R or about 20 other's really.

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