Cool, they made that in the time it took me to read the headline. This will totally cause them to change.

IMO no it's not worth it, not even close.

Given that you've said it's not in your price range and you would have to save for a long time... there is a very high chance that you will be disappointed. I know this might be an unpopular opinion here but flagship headphones are not worth their price for the vast majority of people. You're so far into diminishing returns territory at that price level, you can get something marginally worse for a fraction of the price.

If you had money to burn and were just trying to find something to spend it on, then yea whatever. It's not worth saving up for when you already have a good pair of headphones. That's just my opinion.

The computer sends 1's and 0's to the DAC, that's it. None of this bullshit is making the 1's more one-y or 0's more zero-ey.

People are so dumb sometimes, it's almost painful. Honestly, the prevalence of this kind of absolute stupidity has made me lose interest and distance myself from "audiophile" communities. I might check this sub once a week tops vs daily like I used to and I never visit audiophile forums anymore. I'm satisfied with my gear, and stuff like this makes me feel dumber for having read it and generally just sours me on the audiophile hobby overall. It makes me feel like there is a large overlap between "audiophiles" and conspiracy theorists. You have to have a tremendous lack of critical thinking skills and large amount of confirmation bias to fall into these silos-of-stupid and I want nothing to do with any of it.

You'll very often see people that obsess over measurements and comparing gear, listening to the same test tracks over and over, etc. These people have lost the plot, the point is just to enjoy music.

Yup. I use my APM at least twice as much but probably more like 3x as much as my desktop headphone setup, they sound great and the convenience is huge.

Congratulations you've just invented the PS5.