K701 and Total Airhead Combo - Page 2 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

TickTockMan · 05-02-2008, 04:10 PM

Add me to the list of people who are delighted with the Airhead.
I haven't used any other amps to compare it to, but man, is this thing ever smooth and clean sounding. I notice a pretty substantial difference when running my iPod Classic unammped vs. ampped through the Airhead.

Not one penny of buyers remorse here!

Strudel · 05-02-2008, 08:30 PM

I've been enjoying my Bithead greatly for the past year. The urge to upgrade occurs on occasion but I can never justify upgrading when I have zero complaints about the Bithead's sound. It is a must for anyone with a laptop, it breathes so much life into headphones vs. using the horrid integrated audio.

pirate6955 · 05-02-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by violeta88

I wanted to update my original post by saying that even though I have three portable headphone amps now, that for the K701's, the Total Airhead is the cleanest, most dynamic of them, and my collection of portable headphone amps consists of the Corda Move, Shek H1 and the Total Airhead. While the Move has a bit beefier bass, the Airhead is punchy and goes just as deep, especially with the Crossfeed turned on and is more vivid in its soundstaging. The Airhead is consistently cleaner than the Shek, and maintains the lower level clarity of the Shek, while adding a bit of warmth. The Airhead is cleaner to louder volumes than the Shek,yet at the loudest volume the Airhead can reproduce, is as clean as the Shek at lower volume levels. In terms of neutrality, it is a bit warmer than what I would call neutral, but not as warm as the Move, and in terms of overall transparency and resolution of fine detail, it is the best of the three. I have found that the Move is overrated in the transparency category, and isn't as good as the Porta Corda III in terms of transparency. The Airhead comes very close to what I remember of the Porta Corda III, but adds a bit of warmth that the Porta Corda III didn't have. I am still highly impressed that HeadRoom could produce such a high quality amp for $99.

hi. looking at your sig i see you have a cable pro cable, which costs more than your amp. and you have nice headphones to boot. i also notice you use your mac as a source.

so i have a question. do you think the money spent on the cable vs. on the amp gives better sound? i am thinking you could have a bithead for the same money as the panorama cable, and use the included cables to connect to the mac via usb gaining the external dac.

i also have a cable pro line out cable for my ipod. nice cable. for sure.
and i have a bithead too. and i find that using the external dac is a big improvement over my macbook pros audio output.

i have since upgraded to where i could use the optical out on the mac and that made a huge difference also. but this is using the portable micro d/amp.

i like cables too. but i never felt they made a tremendous sonic difference. maybe as the final tweek, but maybe my ears are just too far gone to notice the subtleties , thus my question to you..

thanks for your time man.