Seems like "WAF" is a big topic of discussion on the High Efficiency Speaker forum because high-efficiency speakers are often quite large. But that is massively trumped by the anti-WAF of trying to listen in the bedroom late at night. I can get away with massive horns in my living room, but I can't push my luck with late night listening. So I'm relegated to crystal radio levels.

I've heard the Sennheiser RS65 are pretty good.

Pete

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You might want to try www.headfi.com or www.headwize.com. These are more established headphone forums and you might get more input. Generally, headphone fans are against wireless headphones so be prepared.(

Anyway, I already have high end gear and am just looking for a wireless solution.

Yep, he's right, and I'm one of 'em. You're throwin' the baby out with the bath water,
musically. And what if you want to change CD's? Ya gonna pad on out to whatever
room the stereo's in to change it? In my corporate cubicle dwelling days, I had a
portable CD player as transport on my desk, DAC and tube headphone amp under my
desk and Senn 600's. People thought I was nuts, unless I let them listen. ;-)

The Antique Sound Labs phone amp is nice; David Berning's Micro ZOTL is a quality
monster. (Now I listen to an Audio Note Meishu and AKG K1000's - 300B's are the
only way to make these phones really happy!)

When done right, headphone listening can be very very good. And what I like about headphones is that it's a lot easier and cheaper to get it right than the power amp/loudspeaker combo. I'm a firm believer of the 1/10th rule in that you can get the same quality of sound from a set of headphone for 1/10th the cost of comparable speakers. Same for the cost of headphone amps vs power amps.

I know that you're looking into headphones as a means for personal listening, but there's no reason why it can't be "high end" too, like your other gear. Like speakers, there needs to be a good match between the amp and headphones. I'm using a set of Grado 225 with a Mapletree Ear+ amp and the combo is fabulous. Another popular combo is Sennheiser with the Antique Sound Lab.

Keep us up to date on your journey into the world of cans. I'm very interested in seeing it from the perspective of a speaker guy.

gar.

(Tried to post under Lonestar, but your server keeps saying I entered the wrong password. I'd already posted once using the password and subseqeunt replies don't have a password box to fill!)

The password box deal is kinda weird. Maybe clear your browser cache, pages and cookies.