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Yeah seriously, I support you 100% man. I'm such a retard for buying the L3000s and the DHA3000, I could have saved $3000 and bought the best setup in the world. .

I guess I'll have to live with it, sadly.

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Y'see, this is you asking for people's opinions. That's fine, opinions are good. What's not good is you running around all over the place pushing your opinions into people's faces like they were God-given truth. There's a big difference there - nobody has any problem with you being satisfied with your equipment, in fact that's great - but it'd be nice if you admitted once in a while that there might be other viewpoints that don't exactly match up to yours. See what I'm getting at?

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Bravo, Bravo

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Solid state amps do make the SA 5000 sound "treble heavy, bright and sterile sounding" because the SA5000 accurately mirrors rthe chatracteristics of the SS amp. Because of this, a headphone with coloration, like the Grados, Audio Technicas, or the Sennheisers, may be better with many SS amps than the SA 5000.

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howabout coming to the Tampa meet next weekend? We're friendly folks and we'll be glad to hear your gear and share ours with you. Florida Head-fi is calling you dear DR.

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Wrong, wrong, wrong I've heard the SA5K with a wide range of amps both tube and ss even hybrids like the Melos and they still sound treble heavy, bright and sterile. Thats my opinon and it won't change. You continue to state your opnion as fact when it is just your opinion and nothing more. There is no right and wrong in this hobby just a load of differing opinions. No one's opinon is any better or worse then yours and you can't seem to acknowledge that.

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I will try - I am busy though. I truly would love to make it.

I invite anyone who can make it to Apoka or Gainesville to meet with me for extended and more private listening sessions, either comparing their stuff to mine or simply to audition mine with the CDs they bring.

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Aww, how inconvenient Would've been so nice to see other people's opinions of what is in your opinion a very synergistic setup

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Art you are such a self-righteous, arrogant idiot. In the majority of your posts you continously proclaim your gear as the best, however you have only limited experience with regard to high-end cans, sources and amps, therefore your CRAZY claims are totally unfounded. Moreover you lambast fellow head-fiers if they happen to dislike a can which you enjoy, your a grown man act like one, not a spoiled little baby. Finally you GOT TO UNDERSTAND everyone has different tastes, no two people are the same, what I like you might not like and vice versa. Also I recall the days when you used to make crazys claims about the lehmann amp you once had. You remind me of Nik a little bit, however without Niks experience and good manners.

I'd give it a little more time before you make your decision. Your ears may need time to adjust to the new sound since you've gotten used to the old opamps. Even if you do end up switching back you won't be the first on this forum to do so

Back to the topic at hand.

I had a modded XCD-88 with the said 627s through my PPA, M3, Emotion +, and PPX paired with my HD600s and MS2s and RS2s that I had at the time and would never had ventured to say the source was overly bright. Give you gear some more time to burn in and I think you will be plesently suprised.

As for the SA5ks... they have never sounded anything but bright and treble heavy to me... even thrown at my PPX 6SN7.

edit: and GS-1 as well

Interesting...I wouldn't consider the OPA627 to be bright-sounding...

Drarthurwells -- I would recommend you audition an M^3 because your opinions of SS amps will change

Art: Solid state amps do make the SA 5000 sound "treble heavy, bright and sterile sounding" because the SA5000 accurately mirrors the characteristics of the SS amp. Because of this, a headphone with coloration, like the Grados, Audio Technicas, or the Sennheisers, may be better with many SS amps than the SA 5000.


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Art: I have never heard any solid state amp, including the best from Pass labs that didn't sound sterile, lean of timbre, and bright, to at a least some extent, when listened to them with an accurate source and speaker. Is it news to you that these are Solid State charactristics that are well known? You adapt to this in listening to SS and are only reminded of it when you hear good tube sound - then you say, That is what I've been missing!"

Tube amps tend to mollify this with a richer sound, but tend to lose the definition (particualry in the bass range), lack of coloration, transient impact, and dynamics of SS. The Bada PH12 (with the tubes I recommend) gives the best of both tube and Solid State, and the most natural timbre I have found, with the SA 5000 headphones. This result surpasses the headphone systems I have either owned or heard, to such an extent, that it tells me of the superiority of each of the components in the chain. My arrogance is assurance and confidence, based on 50 years of hi fi experience.

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Exactly why you should listen to an M^3....which is a tubey-sounding SS amp that contradicts the bolded words above...you will then realize that you can't be tossing "blanket statements" around like tkam said.