Easy. But you have to believe.

No, per the logic that @groovyd presented, the input impedances of the amps are so high that they do not significantly load the source. Most likely you could remove the input from one amp and not notice a change in output of the other because the input voltages would not change. The...

Voltages are not divided by loads in parallel - current is. Whether it works well or poorly will depend on the ratio of the resultant input impedance of the two amps to the output impedance of the DAC.

Mine were $4,500 new. I would not have paid $6,000 either.

The transformers in every ethernet receiver (including cheap ones) prevent this. The only ground loop possibility that I see is if you use shielded ethernet wire instead of UTP.

The opinion of anyone who has first-hand experience with it would be suspect for having bought it. So, no.

Neat trick indeed. If you find your thinnest card too thick even after using it to buy the Susvaras, These plastic cards from iFixIt are made for the purpose and work well.

He's was half dead for fifty years before he tried the real thing. "You Want it Darker" was even closer and "Thanks for the Dance" was literally posthumous. Different strokes. The pads were gifted and have a new home where they will be loved (I hope). - Lee

After some extended listening with the Dekoni's and I am having some reservations that they may indeed be too bass-light. I thought they improved Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris on "If This Is Goodbye" and "Love and Happiness". Then I queued up Leonard Cohen "Live in London" and I think they...

Less doesn't have to mean insufficient. It is well-controlled. The guy with a sub-woofer in his trunk that rattles the license plate has "more bass" but not better bass. In the couple of Mark Knopfler tunes I was able to listen to before I left, the bass was there and I thought that it was...

I only had a few minutes with them before I had to leave town for a while. It will take more listening to confirm anything. I can only say at this point that there was nothing to not like. The treble was crisp and clean; the bass was well defined and full; mids are not recessed; the...

Add me to the Dekoni Elite Fenestrated Sheepskin pad fan club. My condolences to the family of the particular sheep who has some skin in the game, but it was a noble sacrifice. I don't notice them being particularly thicker than the OEM's, maybe a little, but they compress less easily and...

Heck, I could buy an XP32 for my headphone rig... If I sold my car and put some money with it.

They are like flowers in a well tended garden. All are pretty - this one for this reason and that one for that. I am at the point in my life (retired old man with declining hearing) where it is time to just pick one and enjoy it. In words attributed to Rabbi H. Schachtel, "happiness is not...

I have not. Other than that damned itch that we in the hobby get that there might be Something Better out there, I have no reason to consider a different power amp for the Susvara. I have heard one reviewer say that the XA25 brings "extra heft" that the J2 lacks. These comments were made in...

Simplicity has merit. I didn't use to believe this but now I am convinced of it. It is something to be discarded only for good reason. If the lossless attenuation capability in the Tambaqui is well implemented, unless there is a need to accommodate additional inputs, what benefit would the...

Bravo. Pleased to have the opportunity to "like" it twice - here and there. - Lee

The best way to fix USB is to kick it to the curb. The phoenix may indeed rise from the ashes. But, if no ashes, then no Phoenix. Enter RedNet, i2S, or aes/ebu.

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My data point

My main reason for buying them is the hope that a bit more thickness will keep them from pushing on my clown ears. I wonder if they are $99 instead of the nearly identical HE pads at $69 because they figure we Susv owners are loaded.

Any info on the earpads you are auditioning?

Kind of parallels my first week with the First Watt J2. I had first intended to return it to Reno HiFi because it wasn't sufficiently better. After a couple of weeks either the amp or my appreciation of it improved immensely. I'd suggest to give it a longer trial. You may get a similar...

I can recommend Khozmo unreservedly. Best of luck. - Lee