Hi S7; I can pretty much play my stereo system as long and as loud as I like most of the time as I have my own listening room and no close neighbors. But when we have people staying awhile (overnight), my listening room is adjacent to our guest room, and I can't play it much at night at all-- my favorite time for listening. So,I just go on headphones.
My Sonic Frontiers Line 2 pre-amp has an excellent headphone section and I use Sennheiser 600 cans with the up-grade Blue Clou cable. I don't mind being on headphones a few days. In fact a good headphone system provides a different perspective on music and can be quite enjoyable. On headphones, I often discover detail(s) I had never heard before.
If you haven't gotten into headphone listening, perhaps you should give it a try. I can recommend it as long as you have a good system-- doesn't even have to be particularly expensive-- some decent headphones, small headphone amp, and ICs will do it. Good Listening. Craig
My Sonic Frontiers Line 2 pre-amp has an excellent headphone section and I use Sennheiser 600 cans with the up-grade Blue Clou cable. I don't mind being on headphones a few days. In fact a good headphone system provides a different perspective on music and can be quite enjoyable. On headphones, I often discover detail(s) I had never heard before.
If you haven't gotten into headphone listening, perhaps you should give it a try. I can recommend it as long as you have a good system-- doesn't even have to be particularly expensive-- some decent headphones, small headphone amp, and ICs will do it. Good Listening. Craig