Altmann Tera Player - Page 4  

Charles recommend using Koss Porta Pro with the Tera Player on his website, and I am wondering if it is really that good as compared with other iems??    Like to hear from those who owns the Tera Player and their impression on the Koss Porta Pro.   

I've never understood this.  A $50 headphone for an 840 euro player and yet that is what he recommends.  

i'm intrigued to see the comparison between altmann + koss portapro vs $1000 custom IEM + cowon players

the price range is similar, but you get better comfort with CIEM + longer battery life with the cowons 

Have anyone looked at their homepage lately?

http://www.tera-player.com/

I'm positive this is a recent addition. Does anyone have any experience with the latest version and how strong is the hi-gain output? 

FYI - those headphone outputs were mentioned here in December 2011:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/586056/altmann-tera-player-anyone/30#post_8009863

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Originally Posted by HiFlight 


I have 4 pair of non-IEM phones besides my modified Porta-Pro. (modified Sony F1, K1000, HE-6 and Smeggy Thunderpants) I have replaced the plastic perforated driver cover with a fine mesh screen and made some changes to the pads, both of which take the performance of the Koss to a higher level.
Amazingly, this humble and inexpensive phone compares very closely with my above listed phones. Of course the balanced planars and K1000 require the use of my desktop amp which drives them from the speaker terminals and uses my Tera Player as a preamp. I find the Tera/Koss combo to be as musically satisfying as the far more expensive planars. It is a mistake to underestimate the performance of the PortaPro/KSC35 when suitably modified by a few simple and easy updates.
I would call the SQ of the modified Koss closer to that of the Senn. HD-650 than most any other full sized cans that I have owned.
Addendum:

Dr Xin also used the Koss KSC35 to voice all of his amplifiers, and considered the Koss to be one of the best sounding headphones available regardless of price! Interestingly, he used them without pads.

Thanks HiFlight for sharing your findings.   My Tera Player should arrive these 2 days.   Will get the Koss Porta Pro and see how it match up.   Cheers.

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Originally Posted by HiFlight 

Another Koss phone that works really well with the Tera Player is the KSC35.

That's not surprising as I think Koss uses the same drivers in the Porta Pro and KSC35 headphones.  I'm interested in how evolutionx will find the player although at its current price it is just a little too steep for me.  At the initial €499 I may have been tempted but €840 knocks it out of the ball park.

Not to mention a high output impedance that can't handle high-end IEM impedance loads. Cowon players have developed - finally - semi-decent outputs, but they still lag behind Apple, and in some ways, behind Sony, too. If SQ is all up to EQ, the name Cowon, the fact it's not from a Chaebol or conglomerate, then SQ the Cowon players have. 

But, they work. Stick with what works.

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Originally Posted by i_djoel2000 

i'm intrigued to see the comparison between altmann + koss portapro vs $1000 custom IEM + cowon players

 

the price range is similar, but you get better comfort with CIEM + longer battery life with the cowons 

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I still have the strong feeling that someone is having a lot of fun at your expense. Your expensive expense. 

What is the difference between v0 and v1 version? And is this player any good for heavy music such as metal?

sometimes i do think of buying this just because it is one of the expensive portable player up to date ? what was i thinking.