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post #1 of 6
8/1/10 at 1:00am
Thread Starter 

How you doing Guys :-)

 

I am after an amp to power some HD600 if necessary. I do not have £500-1000 to spend. I am UK based and thus far i have shortened my list down to 2 candidates.

 

Little Dot MKiii

Creeks obh21

 

They are within my budget. I must stress these will be for electronic music production so i am trying to avoid a colorful sound or anything that has been smoothed over. I would like to know if 

 

1: This would be a waste of time and wait till i have a bigger budget

2: How they plug into an EMU 0404 (any required leads etc)

3: If little dot, where can i purchase other than ebay

4: If you have a better amplifier in mind to do the job i require (available within the UK)..... please advise

 

Thx

 

 

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post #2 of 6
8/1/10 at 4:30am

I think the cheaper Graham Slee amp would be a better bet. Certainly better than the creek and less colorful,more accurate than the Little Dot.

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post #3 of 6
8/1/10 at 4:59am

To purchase a Little Dot MKIII you can do a direct buy from Little Dot themselves, if you just go to their website and shoot them an email they should send you a paypal invoice for the payment.
 

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post #4 of 6
8/1/10 at 5:09am
Thread Starter 

Heard great things about Graham Slee products actually. Which ones can you recommend within that price range?

 

Thanks for your response. Should i assume out of the creek and mkiii the little dot would be the better choice? It seems to be more talked about than the creek on this site.

 

Cheers

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post #5 of 6
8/1/10 at 6:48am

Being in the UK an amp from Graham Slee would be a wise choice. This because they sound great and because should they ever need work it would be easier to ship it to him. I really like my Solo SRGII but it is more than the amps you have listed, you could reduce the cost a bit by getting the switching PSU and later the PSU1. Good luck.

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post #6 of 6
8/1/10 at 6:51am

The Novo is within your price range (£212 + vat). See (http://www.headphoneamplifiersusb.com/novoheadphoneamplifier.htm)

I recently sold a Solo SRG which currently retail for about £315 with the standard power supply, could always upgrade later. The Solo is very good for the price but I have never heard the Novo.

The LD would probably be better than the Creek but although I have not heard either I would guess that the LD would be more colored and smoother being that its a tube amp. The Solo would have more detail,speed,punch and dynamics that either given my experience of it and what I have read about the others (mainly the LD)

The Novo would give you 80-85% of the Solo

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