🎧 What are your headphones missing? 🎧 The architecture of a full hi-fi system built into headphones isn’t a gimmick. It’s the logical solution if the goal is to match the sound of a full system. In high‐end audio, fidelity doesn’t come from a single compo- nent—it comes from the entire signal chain working together. Source conversion, preamplification, amplification, and channel separation all play distinct roles. Remove stages, collapse them into shortcuts, or simulate them with software, and