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DomieMic65 
Well I would like very much to hear your impresions of it! Does it happen to have the 271mkII or the 701's?
Anyway the whole project somehow convinces me and most probably I am going to get it too! Do you have any links of reviews?
I wish I could build it though...:(
Only AKGs I've owned are the K501/K601, and I wont be revisiting the brand until they come up with something genuinely new. I dont know of any reviews of the EPH-02, but its simply a professionally-built version of the Objective2, and there are a number of listening impressions here. The problem with the main impressions thread is that it descended into a brawl between the OP and 'the rest of Head-Fi' - a mod intervened and I'm not seeing a whole lot of impressions. In a nutshell, those who like the amp report that it does what Voldemort claims - powers a wide range of headphones without stamping its own 'sound' on the end result. If I have a concern for someone buying the Objectve2 as a first amp, its simply that a neutral, transparent amp has the potential to shine a very bright light (metaphorically) on your source (both the gear and your music). For some people, that is exactly what they want - for those of us with a 'mixed bag' of lossless and lossy MP3 collections, it has the potential to drive us toward warmer, less revealing kit.
You mentioned that you have a CMoY - did you read Mike's 'sub-$100' shootout ?
http://www.headfonia.com/music-on-a-budget-sub-100-portable-amps-shootout/
I dont know if those little guys have the grunt to drive your cans, but its an interesting article - when I arrived here, there were very few 'ready-made' amps under 300USD, much less under $100. Good times.
