Some advice please. I am new both to headphones and to this forum. I started just a few months ago and I’ve already bought, perhaps rather impulsively, the Hifiman 400s, the Sennheiser 58X Jubilee and the Grado 80e, all of which I like very much. None of these are particularly hard to drive and I’m currently driving them with an iPad and an iPhone 6. At some point in the future my intention is to buy a Sundara, and my question is this: up to now I have not had to use a dac or amplifier but based on my reading I will need such equipment for the Sundara. On the one hand it makes sense for me to buy budget equipment (under, say, $150). That’s because I’m a layman in music plus I’m older and so my hearing is not what it used to be, and I even have a moderate case of tinnitus. On the other hand, perhaps I should get a little better equipment on the possibility that someday I might want to upgrade to a more expensive headphone that would benefit more from a better amplifier. Could someone please make a recommendation for an amplifier (dac?) that would work well with the Sundara and would (1) be budget and also (2) a recommendation for a bit better than budget. The music I primarily listen to are vocals, more women than men, classical, opera and light rock. Thanks.
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