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Tube Amp Suggestion for Grado SR225s

post #1 of 4
1/16/11 at 1:00pm
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Hello everyone, I'm new here and new to the audiophile world, and I'm need some help choosing some gear.

 

I'm professional jazz drummer, and I listen to 70% jazz, 30% classical. Being a jazz drummer, my ears naturally listen to the cymbals first. I will be listening to a lot of jazz combos...I would like to hear accuracy around the cymbals, but overall a warm sound.

 

Since I can't afford  great audiophile speakers , I'm thinking about purchasing a Grado 225s, and a headphone amp that will bring the most out of the music I'm listening to. My budget for the headphone amp is around $ 350.

 

I know this thread with this topic was introduced, but it is 5 years old, and market must have changed a bit since. 

 

Any help, guidance on this would be greatly appreciated, as this will be my very first headphone amp!!!

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post #2 of 4
1/16/11 at 5:43pm

These are low impedance phones.  So, you need to go solid state ( a Matrix m-stage) or a tube amp with output transformers (someone else will have to chime in, all mine are output transformerless for high impedance phones).

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post #3 of 4
1/16/11 at 10:09pm

Check out the Little Dot line of amps. My SR325's work great with my Little Dot 1+.

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post #4 of 4
1/17/11 at 3:04am
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Originally Posted by ArmAndHammer View Post

Check out the Little Dot line of amps. My SR325's work great with my Little Dot 1+.


+1  Another vote for the LD 1+    Its great with the SR225's also.  

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