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post #91 of 5102
5/14/11 at 2:07pm
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Originally Posted by jamato8 View Post

I love being able to get, move to another room taking the 500's, a iRiver with lossless, the DB-2 balanced dac and the 71B or PB-2. Truly transportable high quality sound. 



Hehehe, nice, with my HE-6 set-up, I can do that too, but I would need wheels on my table and very long ac power cords.

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post #92 of 5102
5/14/11 at 2:33pm
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I love being able to get, move to another room taking the 500's, a iRiver with lossless, the DB-2 balanced dac and the 71B or PB-2. Truly transportable high quality sound. 



The 2 would be just as portable with the same set up.  Do you prefer the 500 over the 2 with this set up?

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post #93 of 5102
5/14/11 at 2:46pm
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Hehehe, nice, with my HE-6 set-up, I can do that too, but I would need wheels on my table and very long ac power cords.


12v car battery>converter>2 200w monoblocks>HE-6

Portable smortable. biggrin.gif
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post #94 of 5102
5/14/11 at 2:49pm
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The 2 would be just as portable with the same set up.  Do you prefer the 500 over the 2 with this set up?

I am not sure. I haven't listened to the LCD-2 much lately. I want a total grasp of the sound of the 500. Then when I switch, for me, what differences good, bad or just a different rendering of the sound, will be much more obvious. I sometimes throw the 500's in my small back pack with the before mentioned setup, and listen at my destination. I wouldn't do that with the LCD-2 due to the wood. The HE-500 are possibly a more "exciting" phone compared to the LCD-2. That doesn't mean they are better just more jump factor or what may be a faster transient response but that is conjecture and very subjective. There are a lot of if's but the bottom line is, I really enjoy the HE-500. When I get the Lyr I will be able to compare them to the HE-6 with some excellent tubes I have on hand here. 


Edited by jamato8 - 5/14/11 at 2:51pm
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post #95 of 5102
5/14/11 at 3:55pm
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I am not sure. I haven't listened to the LCD-2 much lately. I want a total grasp of the sound of the 500. Then when I switch, for me, what differences good, bad or just a different rendering of the sound, will be much more obvious. I sometimes throw the 500's in my small back pack with the before mentioned setup, and listen at my destination. I wouldn't do that with the LCD-2 due to the wood. The HE-500 are possibly a more "exciting" phone compared to the LCD-2. That doesn't mean they are better just more jump factor or what may be a faster transient response but that is conjecture and very subjective. There are a lot of if's but the bottom line is, I really enjoy the HE-500. When I get the Lyr I will be able to compare them to the HE-6 with some excellent tubes I have on hand here. 


 

With these top tier orthos my question is not which is better but rather which flavor do you like.  The 6 and the 2 both have their merits.  If power and portability was not a factor then I can live with either one if I was forced to...but try forcing me.  Its the whole picture or the mood I guess.  To nit pick I find more pluses with the 6 but I listen to the 2 more.

 

Schitt amps I find very attractive, I truely like the looks.  The tubes though look like you need a spark plug pliers to remove.

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post #96 of 5102
5/14/11 at 4:27pm
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With these top tier orthos my question is not which is better but rather which flavor do you like.  The 6 and the 2 both have their merits.  If power and portability was not a factor then I can live with either one if I was forced to...but try forcing me.  Its the whole picture or the mood I guess.  To nit pick I find more pluses with the 6 but I listen to the 2 more.

 

Schitt amps I find very attractive, I truely like the looks.  The tubes though look like you need a spark plug pliers to remove.


 

I wonder if this thing would work as a tube puller for the Lyr. Saw it on ebay.

 

Tube Puller 1.jpg

 

Tube Puller 2.jpg

 

Tube Puller 3.jpg

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post #97 of 5102
5/14/11 at 4:33pm

Interesting.  Wonder how it works, suction?

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post #98 of 5102
5/14/11 at 5:03pm

That's rubber inside so I guess the rubber would grasp the tube then you can pull it off.

 

Here's the link.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Electronic-Tube-Puller-AMO-Miniature-Puller-/260782606158?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D260756569802%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D9154875840530065093

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post #99 of 5102
5/15/11 at 1:00am
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Wow, I didn't think it would but the Xin Reference drives the HE-500 very well. Nice transparency and sweetness to the sound. 

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post #100 of 5102
5/15/11 at 2:33am

I drive the 6 with the Xin Ref. from time to time and it works quite well so the 500 should be a breeze.

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post #101 of 5102
5/15/11 at 6:29am
The Xin Macro4 does a better job of driving the 6s than my SP amp. I've given up trying to figure it out. It sounds good and that's a bonus. On the 500s, it does very well.
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post #102 of 5102
5/15/11 at 7:12am
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Wow, I didn't think it would but the Xin Reference drives the HE-500 very well. Nice transparency and sweetness to the sound. 



PLEASE! do not get me started on this. biggrin.gif I have refrained from posting on the Xin Reference since all the problems users have had with the poor delivery/responses. However I have the last two known versions he made with the C5 and D5 and both drive the HE-500 very well. Specially the higher output D5 version. wink.gif


Edited by mrarroyo - 5/15/11 at 1:20pm
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post #103 of 5102
5/15/11 at 7:26am

For anyone who has heard these, how do they perform for rock and metal and are there any others headphones you would recommend for these genres?

Thanks

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post #104 of 5102
5/15/11 at 3:45pm
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For anyone who has heard these, how do they perform for rock and metal and are there any others headphones you would recommend for these genres?

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They sound excellent to me on Rock. Great driving force but on well recorded stuff, good spatial information keeping everything in its place. 

 


 

 

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post #105 of 5102
5/15/11 at 4:13pm
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They sound excellent to me on Rock. Great driving force but on well recorded stuff, good spatial information keeping everything in its place. 

 


 

 


 

I listen to rock and heavy metal on my HE-6 all the time with excellent results so I don't expect the HE-500 to be any different.

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