REVIEW: Qinpu Q-2 and A-3 Amplifiers and V-5 Speakers - Page 8

Well this is the time of the year where I can buy a LOT of things, dunno why. It's not that money is too difficult to come by, It's just that I've spent so much money so far just coz I can, even if I won't use it enough to make it worth while. I feel really bad for doing this lol I really need to buy some good CDs haha. All mine are metal and sound pretty horribly recorded with my UM3X and P-51 mustang playing .wav. My sister only has like Muse and The Killers, which are alright.

I just assumed he'd done all the searches for the available auctions, and didn't look. However, I wonder what they'd charge to ship to him in Australia.

Thanks for the link skylab. I think i saw those before but I didn't pay much attention because i was focusing on looking for the gold pins. HPA, $8.99us for the two tubes and $15.99us for shipping :| Each additional item is free so I might as well go ahead and get a couple of pairs because if i sell the A3, I can pop the fresh ones in and it will be almost new

So how do you like your new amp

Well I won't be doing a review on it nor the p-51 Mustang for a couple of weeks. I am going to wait for my Zero DAC and some good RCA cables and a coax cale to arrive and burn everything in for approx 150 hours i hope. I am now on holidays from school until February Watch out for my reviews This time I will TRY and go into detail but it's gonna be difficult, I am no audiophile.

Oh okie

Skylab, would you recommend the A3 for a Beyer DT770 /250? Or Do you think an EF1 or EF2A would be a better suited amp for headphones?

anyone else have it by now?

I have the A-3 but do not use it. It looks wonderful and I initially bought it to experience the tube sound. I loved it but the 3.5mm headphone out on the back is annoying. Looks very well made too. It has been sitting on my desk unused for a couple of weeks now. I bought a MAD Ear+ HD amp so I have no use for it. I instead did a review for my ALO-780, as I am more trained to pick out details between different headphones, not amps and sources etc.

Get some speakers for the A-3, or some Stax SR-Lambda with SRD-7 transformer, and you will get to enjoy it again.

I am in desperate need of some speakers actually. I need a job first though haha. Would be looking for some that are under $500aud that's for sure. Probably couldn't get much decent though for that price. Don't wanna buy a receiver or anything, too expensive. The A-3 has a bucket load of inputs so that shouldn't be a concern AFAIK. I know almost nothing about speakers and inputs for them etc though

I have a Qinpu Q-2, does anyone know the max impedance headphones it can drive? I would assume 32-300 ohms but I just want to make sure.

 

Also, what would be some good and affordable ( I stress affordable) speakers to pair with it?

 

Something like the Dayton Audio bookshelf speakers?

 

Thanks.

 

 

Edited by Tequilasunriser - 4/2/11 at 11:21pm