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I will always advocate for high-end headphones over speakers myself. Speakers that work and don’t sound absolutely horrible are good enough in my book.
I will say the thrift shop idea is smart. We got our floor speakers and receiver that way and I have no complaints. I’ll spend big bucks on speakers when I hit the lottery I never play.
The room is 50%, maybe more, of a speakers sound.
To me though, you're truly missing an entire dimension (and one of your senses, touch) listening solely on headphones. I'm lucky that everywhere ive lived ive made a dedicated room for listening. They werent always ideal shapes but they worked. My current room is pretty good with some 703 panels to control reflections.
Ive always said, besides the fact there are a million distractions now, a big reason young people are not into music any more (or at least, high quality music) is they've never heard a great system in a great room. Its SO enjoyable when you hear that depth and liveliness you only get from speakers. Ive been into good sound since I was maybe 8 or 9, because my family had decent HiFi growing up that we would listen to. We liked good sound, even though we weren't as technically knowledgeable back then.
And no I'm not an old audiophile kook. Snake oil is bs and dumb. My setup is goodwill finds and total under $800 for my akai TT, magnepan SMG a speakers, hafler power amp, and an onkyo receiver for switching. Oh and a schitt cheap phono preamp. $5 Sony 5 disc changer for CD.
People are regularly blown away by my setup. And its not even that good compared to many other big spender audio folks.
Go for the speakers and get your room situated. Youll enjoy music so much more.
Solid advice but it’s not really applicable to me in all honesty. My headphone listening station consists of an SL-1200mk3, a schiit jotunheim with internal phono card, and XLR balanced out Sennheiser HD800S. I also have a splitter hooked up to a sub if I really want to feel the bass on music that relies on it.
I don’t listen to music with other people generally, and if I do it’s not in a critical listening sense so my PC speakers or the downstairs thrift store technics floor speakers are good enough. I also don’t ever want to upgrade, and given my tastes that means I need to set aside a significant amount of money at the start.