Calling All "Vintage" Integrated/Receiver Owners - Page 280

 

I saw that when it was first posted over there...immediately showed my wife and said "look, there are people way crazier than me".

 

And I bet her answer is "What is your point???"  

My wife would say, "You're either crazy or you're not, I don't care where the line is drawn."

i seriously LOL'd when i saw the picture.

then i read skylabs comment,

"wow, just wow."

and i pretty much lost it.

 

 

you guys think the HP jack on a SX 950 will drive the HE5-LE?

You wife is definitely a keeper.  My wife will simply said, either those or me.  At that time, I'm not sure what I will say. 

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Which AK thread is it in?

 

For some reason it makes me think of Jim's SAE collection...

 

...but I don't know who's the crazier collector, there.

its in the pioneer board on the show us your pioneer or something like that.

it was a sticky i think.

 

got my pioneer pl 55x TT working today.

im excited.

all it took was an 12$ stylus.

the Shure Hi Track cart still works even though its 30+ years old.

 

stuggled with the 60 cycle for a half an hour till i read the manual for the TT.

 

now the issue is,

i must put all of this equipment purchasing on hold

and find a storage solution.

 

can't run it off my "best" rig because theres no room

 

can't run it in the living room the way i want because i've got no way to get it to my yamaha integrated and still have the integrated hooked up to the PC and TV.

 

=(

Not really well, in my speculation/experience.  I have a Marantz 2275 and with the HE-5 in play, the vol pot has to go way beyond where it goes with other cans.  So I would surmise a SX-950 might have a bit of a struggle showing what the headphone can really do.  However, with the SX-1250, the HE-5 gets right up there to a righteous toe-tapping, finger-snapping zone.

 

Just me guessing it would be a bit iffy...
 

 

I'd disagree. I have the 5LE and a 950. The 950 has plenty of go right from the HPO to make the 5LE sing with plenty of headroom to spare. The 6 is another story...

So, got my McIntosh MA6100 rolling with my Little Dot DAC-1 & D7000s (and D2000s, Q701s, Rastas, etc.). Talk about velvet smooth with all the soundstage and detail, this is almost high end tube territory here. This monster is an amazing HF amp, and does a killer job driving my Swan Diva 2.1s that I use as PC speakers. I can't believe I waited this long to get it out of mothballs.



Sexy, sexy...
Edited by Magick Man - 2/23/12 at 12:30am

Could you actually replace a dedicated headphone amp with an integrated amplifier like this and get better sound? I vowed a while back to stop messing around with vintage gear, but the vintage sound is calling me back, that, and I need a phono pre-amp. I have no intention of using speakers right now, but I do hope to add in a cassette player and finish off my turntable rig soon, would be great if I could use an old amp as an all in one and sell off the Burson. Technicalities aside, listening through the broken sherwood I have has just made the Burson take on a 'fake' sound to me.

 

Yes
 

I don't own any really difficult to drive cans, but I can't imagine there are many headphones out there that need more than this tank can put out.

he should do him self good and sell everything off except the yamaha power amp on the bottom and invest in a nice preamp and better speakers. the double woofers look like technics to me. he should try replacing them with some nice working Technics SB-7000A. he would thank me.

I almost never use a "dedicated headphone amp" anymore. Almost all my headphone listening is done via a vintage receiver, and if you factor in that the Leben CS-300 is an integrated amp, then I really don't use a dedicated headphone amp at all except on very rare occasions. Among other things, I prefer the flexibility that my vintage gear offers me - lots of source switching, tone controls, balance, mono switch, etc etc. And the sound is at LEAST as good