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post #106 of 247
4/5/08 at 12:30am
My Portaphile V2^2 is my favorite portable amp out of all of them (thanks Peter!). In my opinion, nothing beats it in detail, soundstage, and in the upper/mid/low registers.

I keep it plugged in by my bedside and fall asleep with it every night along with my lossless iMod tunes and my UE-10's.

I turn off the wide bandwidth but max out everything else. If it wasn't for battery life, it would be my "desert island" pick.

Hats off to Cesar and his obsessive desire to please his customers!
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post #107 of 247
4/5/08 at 3:16am
Amen, and Good Night, brothers & sisters.
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post #108 of 247
4/5/08 at 4:46am
As a former member of team portaphile I can say that it was simply wanting to upgrade. I went to a meet and heard the Hornet and thought it was much better. Of course, it was also much more expensive, but I had the money and went for it. Of course now I have upgraded again to a WA6 but that just seems to be how it goes.

I also have no reason to have a portable amp(part of the reason for selling the Hornet). I wanted a desktop amp as 100% of my listening is done at my desk. I certainly do respect and appreciate the portaphile and recommend it often.
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post #109 of 247
4/5/08 at 5:35am
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Originally Posted by Drag0n View Post
Im sitting here listening to my Portaphile v2^2 Maxxed and wondering where all the P'phile people went?

Anyone change their minds about the Portaphiles being the best after the Predator,Pico,MiniBox E+, 2Move, IQube, Mini3, and whatever else is stealing the stage?
I would assume everyone has been able to hear some or all of them by now.
Damn, I liked the Portaphile after almost all of those! Well, I haven't heard the IQube or 2Move, but the rest, definitely not as good!

Guess people are after battery life over SQ these days. I'm on the other hand enjoying buffers after my opamps and would like to keep it that way.
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post #110 of 247
4/5/08 at 9:04am
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Originally Posted by Drag0n View Post
Im sitting here listening to my Portaphile v2^2 Maxxed and wondering where all the P'phile people went?

Anyone change their minds about the Portaphiles being the best after the Predator,Pico,MiniBox E+, 2Move, IQube, Mini3, and whatever else is stealing the stage?
I would assume everyone has been able to hear some or all of them by now.
Use my Portaphile maxxed as my bedside unit, occassionally portable, but usually use Tomahawk for portability. Now that I hve Triple Fi 10 as my IEM of choice am being told I need a "neutral" sounding amp and that the Portaphile is one of thebetter amps for neutrality. However, Miguel--mrarroyo--is kindly sending me his MiniboxE+ and the Ilbasso2 for a week's trial, after I asked him about Triples and the perfect amp. So we'll see how they compare.

But Porta is still my fave, and I've been thru Xin amps, Hornet and Tomahawk. As I've said, my two keepers sofar is Toma and Portaphile
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post #111 of 247
4/5/08 at 12:02pm
Yeah that combo seems popular here....toma/p'phile combo. i MAY HAVE TO GET ONE.
I made my portaphile "transportable" now, because i wanted to bring my maxxed version to work, so now i have an external 4000 mah battery pack with a 110v outlet and 2 usb's in it...lol.

Oh it sounds glorious with it, and no limitation of using just a 9v battery. I have a 500ma transformer plugged into the 110v outlet on the battery pack @12v. The bass is great on my igrados with my zune.
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post #112 of 247
4/6/08 at 11:28am
Hi Portaphilers,

Talking about batteries, does anybody had experience with these ?

Ultralife 9v 1.2Ah Lithium
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post #113 of 247
4/6/08 at 11:42am
yes, plenty. They're really good batteries BUT

1--they're not rechargeable so for a Portaphile, dunno
2--Used both the aluminum body and the plastic body. Go for the plastic body--it's just a wee bit smaller and fits the Portaphile better. I found with the aluminum body, I had to use coarse sandpaper, sand it down a bit for it to fit into the Portaphile.

But, if you don't want a rechargeable, works very well and does last longer than typical non-rechargeables
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post #114 of 247
4/6/08 at 12:25pm
I use the portaphile Maxed V2^2 with my 5.5G Imod/shure E500.
I have heard the latest & greatest other then the Iqube.

I own a PRII/PSR,owned a SR71.I Have no desire to switch to another amp!
The portaphile just seems to do eveything right,other then battery life.
A Keeper in my book.Thanks Peter!
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post #115 of 247
4/6/08 at 12:34pm
Using the Class A and low gain settings (wide bandwidth off):

Standard alkalines ~ 1 hour 15 min.
Lithium Ion Rechargeables ~ 45 minutes
UltraLife non-rechargeable ~ 7-8 hours
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post #116 of 247
4/6/08 at 3:12pm
Thank you tnmike1.

I didn't notice it wasn't rechargeable. A bit to expensive for me...
I looked for i-Power 500mAh and I came across with this:
iPower Li Pol 520 Pro
I read in this thread that some iPower were defective, maybe these one are not...

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Originally Posted by immtbiker View Post
Using the Class A and low gain settings (wide bandwidth off):

Standard alkalines ~ 1 hour 15 min.
Lithium Ion Rechargeables ~ 45 minutes
UltraLife non-rechargeable ~ 7-8 hours
... no kidding...
... will it be the argument that will make me sell my P2^2 ?...
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post #117 of 247
4/6/08 at 3:23pm
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Originally Posted by immtbiker View Post
Using the Class A and low gain settings (wide bandwidth off):

Standard alkalines ~ 1 hour 15 min.
Lithium Ion Rechargeables ~ 45 minutes
UltraLife non-rechargeable ~ 7-8 hours

Wow!!! I get 2 1/2 to 3 hours with alkalines.
Maybe yours has been SUPER-MAXXED!!!



Oh, and thats with all my settings maxxed for least battery life/best quality.
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post #118 of 247
4/6/08 at 4:33pm
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Originally Posted by Drag0n View Post
Wow!!! I get 2 1/2 to 3 hours with alkalines.
Maybe yours has been SUPER-MAXXED!!!



Oh, and thats with all my settings maxxed for least battery life/best quality.
I used to get close to 2.5-3 hours with alkalines. All settings to max except the amp was set to low gain.
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post #119 of 247
4/6/08 at 5:08pm
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Originally Posted by Ko Nectic Jazz View Post
I looked for i-Power 500mAh and I came across with this:
iPower Li Pol 520 Pro
I read in this thread that some iPower were defective, maybe these one are not...
I don't know about now, but as of August, last year, the iPower had a huge failure rate. Don't buy them.
I got them from Thomas Distributing and 2 out of 4 of them were internally shorted (always said fully charged but gave no reading on my voltmeter). The other 2 lasted about 35 minutes.
I called Thomas and they knew of the problem and told me to send the 4 batteries back, along with the charger, and they offered me a full refund including the shipping. I just asked them to send me the equivalent amount of Utralifes for the $90.

With the LT1210, blackgates and the upgraded opamp, after a little over an hour, the amp lets out the long whining yelp that it sounds when the alkaline batteries go below their threshold. This is with the Wide Bandwidth turned off, which Cesar told me yields the best battery results with the least afffect on the overall sound.
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post #120 of 247
4/7/08 at 2:23am
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Originally Posted by immtbiker View Post
Using the Class A and low gain settings (wide bandwidth off):

Standard alkalines ~ 1 hour 15 min.
Lithium Ion Rechargeables ~ 45 minutes
UltraLife non-rechargeable ~ 7-8 hours
Hmm. Using Ultralife 1200mAh disposable 9V, with Class-A on and Wide Bandwidth off I get about 20 hours - not 7 or 8!?

Same settings with 500mAh Li-Po rechargeable 9V give 8-8.5 hours.

Don't have any Lithium Ion rechargeables and don't use standard alkalines with the hungry beast.

Wonder why our results differ so much?
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