Search results for query: *
- Users: Pharmaboy
- Order by date
-
ZMF Caldera - New Planar Magnetic from ZMF!
This is very interesting to me. What "admittedly affordable tubed pre-amp" do you use between your DAC and SS amp?- Pharmaboy
- Post #7,601
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
ZMF Caldera - New Planar Magnetic from ZMF!
Here we have a working definition of infinity....- Pharmaboy
- Post #7,598
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
(hoping that comment is metaphorical)- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,370
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
Yup. On the other hand, I can't think of another tube amplifier whose faceplate design--including the painted transformer housings, the teak faceplate, the meter backlighting and the wooden on/off & volume knob--is so well integrated visually. The ZMF Aegis is an amp with its own "look" that...- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,368
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
It's only madness if/when your family leaves you & the sheriff tacks the FORECLOSED PROPERTY notice on your door. (right up to that point it's glorious)- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,420
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
"Think I'll get high and groove on my DAC"- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,350
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Verite Open
My VO sounds/sounded at least very good (and often amazing) on every amp I tried it on except for one: the Monoprice Liquid Gold X (that SS amp really only liked planars). The VO is the least picky headphone I've ever had- Pharmaboy
- Post #9,558
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
ZMF Verite Open
The original Norne Audio Drausk. Pretty sure this model is still sold, but apparently has fewer strands of copper.- Pharmaboy
- Post #9,557
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
FYI, your high level of organization & tidiness puts certain other Head-Fi members* (whose work space looks like the Augean stables) to shame. *they shall remain nameless- Pharmaboy
- Post #41,405
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
"Today's audio blessing & homily by the right reverend @heliosphann"- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,312
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
Wow! What kind of workplace is that, that you can keep a whopper/beautiful amp like this in plain sight w/o it getting swiped?- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,310
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Verite Open
That's actually damned good sonic shorthand, my friend.- Pharmaboy
- Post #9,549
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
ZMF Verite Open
Probably not. Just took the picture below. Never noticed the left earcup is lighter in tone than the left. I rarely look at these headphones closely in good light (my office is quite dim & this headphone never gets sunlight). The sound of this headphone is so good I wouldn't care if the earcups...- Pharmaboy
- Post #9,548
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
ZMF Verite Open
I had roughly the same perceptions about VO woods as @Tchoupitoulas, but from an inverse perspective. I heard blackwood & other hard wood VOs at shows. To the extent one can hear anything at shows, I thought these VOs had a bit more impact in the lowest & highest notes, maybe also snappier...- Pharmaboy
- Post #9,544
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
-
Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
Every time I see that beautiful amp, I'm filled with envy (not a pun).- Pharmaboy
- Post #41,399
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
I never got to hear a pheasantwood VO. If memory serves, it was the first stock wood, but was phased out relatively quickly. I've read more than once that this wood, despite its somewhat plain appearance, has the best tone of any stocks ZMF ever used on the VO. That makes me curious, especially...- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,324
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
Two of the surprises I got in all the listening to the Aegis vs other amps here prior to reviewing it: How close the Icon Audio HP8 (1/2 the size and <1/2 the price of the Aegis) comes to the Aegis. And how close the V281 gets to both these wonderful tube amps. And IMO, it's precisely those...- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,287
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
I found the CC to also sound very good on 3 other amps, though the Aegis did pull ahead by a nose: OG V281 (because everything sounds good on it) Icon Audio HP8 Wells Audio Milo IMHO the CC just plain nsounds good.- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,285
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Spring Limiteds, CanJam NYC and Estimated Release Schedule for Caldera Closed and BOKEH Open!
I saw this group not long after this LP launched. I was in HS at the time ... acid trips were years away. Still, that show put me in outer space.- Pharmaboy
- Post #616
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
-
Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
I humbly suggest a correction. The correct answer should be:- Pharmaboy
- Post #41,384
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
Violectric V222 and V202
Not completely. There are treatment programs & medications for crack addiction.- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,938
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Aegis Official Thread
Screwing up is easy: Left side of brain reads sticker Right side of brain ignores sticker, wreaks havoc It's a feast of human frailty....- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,272
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
-
ZMF Spring Limiteds, CanJam NYC and Estimated Release Schedule for Caldera Closed and BOKEH Open!
Damn! That stabilized Homage is so trippy, it's giving me an acid flashback.- Pharmaboy
- Post #614
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
-
THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Wow! What a beautiful headphone! The chatoyance of that wood comes through so strongly.- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,316
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
-
THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Couldn't agree more. My silkwood VO is easily my favorite dynamic driver headphone ever. Every time I listen to it I'm amazed all over again. And it provides a fascinating contrast with the Caldera Open, my favorite planar. Have done head-to-head listening with both countless times. Always...- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,315
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)