Favorite headphones and why?

We’re talking Roon endpoint not a mobile Roon solution. Away from home hook the Mojo up to 4G.

The Poly is a 2.4GHz device. At home, it will fail to stream reliably if you live in an urban area, due to oversaturation of the 2.4GHz radio spectrum. It has no ethernet port. It’s a defective-by-design product.

One of our esteemed Mods uses this combination; I tend to hook my Mojo up to MacBook or iPad/ iPhone.

To be fair I should have put a price point in the question :grin:. Might look at a Pi, I have a spare around.
I do have an android phone that works as an end point but the headphone out is rubbish and I don’t want wire, dongles and DACs…

That’s a bit of a sweeping set of “if” statements. I don’t live in a dense urban environment and 2.4 streams perfectly well to my chromecasts, Sonos, Amazon dongle, smart TVs thanks very much.

The IQAudiO Pi-DAC+ has headphone output but I suspect this will only drive low impedance cans.

I might just stick my Chromecast in a box with a battery.
Or I could play with these ideas
https://www.tubecad.com/2017/06/blog0384.htm

Hifiman HE1000

Ditto. I started out with a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M50x, which I now use for travelling, but upgraded to Beyerdynamic T5p 2nd Gen this year.

That’s certainly my experience of it - great for some Beyerdynamic DT235s (and noticeably improved with an iPower) but hopeless on my Sennheiser HD650s.

The ones I bought after a 2 hour audition were the Focal Clear. They had the sort of sound balance I was looking for and were comfortable, not too heavy and not at all sweaty.
My shortlist included all the Audeze range from LCD-2 Classic, LCD2 & 3 and XC plus one in the Hifiman range (1000s?, just under £1000 from memory). I started with the cheapest and worked my way up to the four figure headphones. I cross checked going back and forth as I went up the price range and was able to rule out a few of them fairly early on. The choice come down to the Focal Clear verses either the Audeze LCD-3 or XC. The choice was made easy by doing the test in early summer; the Audeze proved sweaty and felt too heavy after even 10 minutes of listening. The Focals had my preferred sound balance and were comfortable.

Luckily for me (but unluckily for my wallet), this place is only 30 minutes away and made the purchase a pleasure (hello to Paul & Wendy…). They are now a Nucleus dealer too.

http://www.highendheadphones.co.uk/
http://www.hifilounge.co.uk/

Hifi Lounge is a dangerous place to go to. Too many goodies in one place.

Yep, each time I go there I seem to lose a four figure sum of money!

And I was thinking of dropping in to listen to some Spendors next time I’m on a business trip to Luton. Silly me.