On my desktop: I started with Sennheiser HD-600 and a basic Schiit stack with Wyrd. A very good start. Then, I acquired Hifiman Sundara and I use it with my new desktop toy – the Stellar Gain Cell DAC/Preamp. Yep. Try this sometime – iMac/Roon/USB into the Stellar, then XLR into **powered, near field monitors – the Neumann KH120A’**s on isoAcoustics stands. Awesome set up. My Neumann’s sound as good as my HD600’s, which I would never have dreamed. Flat, accurate, revealing, imaging/soundstage crazy good, and listenable. “Passive bookshelf speakers” were an expensive rabbit hole/diversion for me. If you can’t afford the KH120A’s, try a pair of Tannoy Gold 7’s at half the price. Dual Concentric desktop bliss.
On my primary all-PSA system, I use Focal Elears into my PSA BHK Preamp. But I prefer my Tannoy Cheviots.