Ask HN: How do you deal with badly mastered music on good headphones?
My setup at work is not exactly headfi, beyerdynamic dt 990 pro 250 ohm on a fostex hpa-4 dac.<p>But it&#x27;s good enough that I get into trouble with much of the music I like to listen to, like static-x and system of a down, they clip so much, I can see it when I import the flacs into audacity, I&#x27;ve tried ripping the original CD&#x27;s too and the clipping is there!<p>I&#x27;ve though about trying some valve amplifier, to hopefully soften the clips a bit..<p>Or maybe there&#x27;s a filter, I&#x27;d like there to not be too much distortion, but not have the hard clips eiter.. What do you do?