Focal Stellia Headphones: Luxury Closed Back Headphones That Do Everything Right Review by Jamie Gillies I grew up a headphone listener. The music of my youth was played through boomboxes, small desktop systems, Walkmans and Discmans with earbuds and plastic yellow headphones, and iPods, all with headphones attached. I love my two channel audio system and great sounding hi-fi gear but if I am being honest with myself, music lives in my head. But I have never committed to really incredible headphones. I’ve had the usual mid-priced cans that you can get at a box store, everything from Bose to Sennheiser to Beyerdynamic. Only recently did I get a pair of Sennheiser HD800 headphones, the original pre-800S version, that helped start the audiophile headphone craze in the 2000s. Despite hearing Sennheiser, Audeze and Focal headphones, I had never spent the money to get one of their legendary models. Part of it is that I really wanted to build a hybrid system. I thought I did not want a separate headphone amp and I really wanted to use my headphones within my two systems: my dedicated two-channel audio system and my desktop streaming system with small desktop speakers. But there [...]
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