This is going to be a very different type of post compared to the other posts on this sub, and I apologize for the very long wall of text you have in front of you, but I really wanted to share my experience of buying my very first pair of "audiophile grade" headphones, and how it helped me get through heartbreak.

Long story short - my ex broke up with me 3 months ago and it ruined me. It was my first major breakup and I'm sure many of you know what I feel and understand how bad the first real breakup is, so I need not go into the details. All I need to say is my life felt, well, lifeless, for the past 3 months. The only thing keeping me going was getting lost in music - which was pretty hard to do with my airpods pro, which are good earbuds (from what I've heard before), but nowhere near as good as the type that people on this subreddit would listen to for "getting lost in music."

For a while now, I've considered myself addicted to good sounding music. Like, I'm "that guy" in the car full of bassheads blasting EDM that is just trying not to cry because of how drowned out and muddy the music sounds, because all I can hear is OOMPH OOMPH OOMPH.

But I've never really bothered to buy myself a good pair of headphones - a good pair that audiophiles would "approve of". Until just this week, thanks to Black Friday. I decided "hey, I wanna treat myself after a hell of a semester, and I've always wanted good headphones, fuck it", and so I bought myself some good old Sennheiser HD 560S' based on recommendations and me trying out a bunch of headphones at the store and deciding these were my style.

All I can say is I was never getting lost in the music with my airpods pro, compared to what I have experienced these past few days. This is something else. I really don't need words to describe it because I know you all know the feeling of putting on your very first pair of high end headphones and getting sucked in, but wow, this was something else. I would close my eyes and the music would envelop me in it. As if I had no responsibilities, no problems in life. It was just me, and the music.

Not only that, but whenever I feel anything sad due to the heartbreak, I literally just put these on, get lost in the music, and 15 minutes later it's like I'm a new person. These things are like a reset button.

All I can say is... shit. I'm in the high-end headphone business for good now. These will take me far, since I am still a broke university student after all and can't afford anything above this price bracket, but once I get myself a good job - a little too much of my income is going to be going towards audio.

I get it now guys, I really do.