Nice topic @ktc !!
Definitely thankful to be able to enjoy music the way I do and for this community (to which I’m especially grateful) which I thankfully found at the very beginning of my dive into headfi.
It’s a bit strange to me being a life long music lover, getting a Walkman for Xmas as a kid when it first came out (still remember that…wow was I blown away) and having used various earbuds, headphones, etc. all my life for portable use (A La Bose, Klipsch, Sony, etc.) that I never knew this world even existed. I’d never heard of a headphone amp or dac and only ever used headphones at home out of my AVR from whatever I found at Circuit City.
Found the first picture I took of my original setup (THX887, Smsl su-6, Xduuo Ta-20 and Arya) It was, weirdly, exactly 3 years ago today!!..
To this stack of Bifrost2, V280, and Lokius about 8 months later….
To today…
I have so many here to thank for all the advice, friendship and just the fellowship of everyones love of music and the hobby. This really is a great community!!!