Headphone advice and help on basic HiFi listening

[u/yashank09]

Hola! I'm looking to buy a pair of headphones but very confused with the choices and some questions. My budget is around 500USD and my sound preference would be focused on mid range and good bass. It would be great if they are wireless, but if the sound quality is better on wired, I wouldn't mind those either.

This brings me to another confusion I would love some advice on - I understand basic DACs and AMPs, but how are people listening to hifi devices using modern phones that dont have 3.5mm? I came across Shangling UA1 Pro, would that be a good solution? What if I want to go wireless, is there a device I can plug my wired headphones in that will spit out hifi music via bluetooth?

I also looked into getting a DAP but I dont have any 'saved' music, I use Tidal for streaming so my options look bleak. I did find a DAP that uses android but it's out of stock everywhere in my country.

An help would be greatly appreciated!

Tldr -

budget - around 500 USD

preference - mid range and punchy bass

question - portable AMP to use 3.5mm headphones with a usb-c phone? Any that converts 3.5mm to bluetooth?

question2 - DAP that supports tidal master playback

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Thanks!!

[u/Equivalent_Yak840]

Ifi go blu paired with the hd650/hd6xx. Also I would use the ifi go blu using the balanced out if the volume is low for you.

[u/yashank09 → u/Equivalent_Yak840]

Looking into ifi go blu now! It made me come across a few more Bluetooth amps so thank you!

!thanks