Hi, I just got my K702 with about 100hrs break-in time and sound quite nice already straight into hp jack of my Accuphase Integrated E305V. My source is a cambridge 840c as dac for my 1T of classical/jazz files mostly 24/96+ in flac or wav. I am planning to get a dedicated headphone amp as my next step of upgrade and hopefully it will be a HUGE improvement and i don't mind to spend a bit more rather than do a small upgrade and than getting nervous about another upgrade too soon! I am definitely looking into a tube amp (more than 15 years ago a had a complete pre/mono block setup with proacs and I missed that fluid liquid sound and stereo images floating n glowing :)). From my search on this site and other I have shortlisted the following: Darkvoice, Rudistor. My budget is around 2000usd (new). Anyone out there have actual experience of K702 amp match delivering good results to recreate a realistic soundstage (i suppose a hi-quality amp with good imaging capability can't be too bad in tonality or other sonic aspects and its prob a matter of character and preference anyway). My upgrade path in the future can be a k1000 or hd800 so the amp should be sufficient enough to drive these too. Thanks a lot and happy new year!
Edited by helloharry - 12/31/10 at 11:50pm
