Mental illness

Because I’m artistic that’s why.

• IEM for comfort (planar and dynamic)
• Headphones for choirs, music listening, gaming, {pvp fps, mmo and story games} (wireless, bluetooth, open back, close back, planar, dynamic, noise cancelling)
• IEM/ Headphones specifically for travel or commute, sleeping, or just appreciating an expensive headphone for it’s build and sound quality
• IEM/ headphones for different DACs/ AMP
• just because one enjoys collecting like people enjoy collecting anime figure, bags, watches and even sports cars

bigot sub, that’s why

You can always rationalize a reason why the new one is different enough to make it nessidsary… I have closed back and open back headphones, but those are both dynamic drivers, so of course I need a planar… So you get some Sundaras, but maybe now I need a closed planar…

Perhaps because different sound signatures tend to be more suitable for specific music genres?

You can’t eq closed backs to sound open, and you can’t eq dynamics to sound electrostatic.

Honestly… this is kind of why I started selling off most of my collection. While I still cycle through headphones and IEMs, there seems to be a handful that I always come back to, and others spend most of their time on a shelf, only coming down once in a while

I sold all my headphones and have one pair of IEMs and 5 DAC/amps, and they all sound different. It’s actually more fun than when I had a bunch of different headphones.

I have one of each type of headphone, and I sell one when I replace it. It just naturally happened that way and I’m happy with it. I have a planar, a dynamic driver, a closed back, and an IEM. And I haven’t felt the need to upgrade or get something else.

For me it was because I was trying to find my preferred sound signature, and chifi makes it much easier and less expensive 😂 For iems at least I found my end game in Hifiman RE2000 I got on sale. I also have Sundaras and focal elegia, open back vs closed back for obvious reasons.

I don’t have too many, but its really nice to have different flavours. Also switching to a shitty headphone now and then helps me appreciate good music which will otherwise be taken for granted :)

I regret my SRH1540

The rest I use em all. About 7 of them.

Practicality.

Earbuds that are 12 years old.

Headphones that leak sound, low ohm.

New IEMs, for house. Better isolation.

New IEMs, cheaper, for biking and gaming.

New planar IEMs for home sound quality. Too expensive to bike with.

New headphones that sound better, high ohm.

So I can give it to people I care for just in case they want to try alternatives other that what we’ve been used to all our lives which are audio devices worth less than $10. Although nowadays I’m seeing more and more cheaper alternatives with similar audio quality for a fraction of the price.