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post #616 of 619
5/19/13 at 12:03pm
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Originally Posted by precsmo View Post

Hi, probably it is a little off topic, but I really need everyone's advice. I'm looking for an amp exclusively for my Compact Monitors Stage 3 CIEM, which is only 18ohms. At 1st I've short listed to Pico Slim or RSA the Shadows, but the SR71-B really draw my attention as it seems like an one time upgrade for all. I've HD650 but my priority is my CIEM.

Now I'm worrying if the SR71-B is way too overkilled and the gain is way too high for sensitive IEMs even at the lowest gain, in balanced mode? I'm really tempted with the SR71-B, but very worried if it is just way too powerful for CIEMs, further more, I've been only seeing reviews which the amp is praised to heaven but with full size headphone, it is very hard to find someone talk about the amp with sensitive iem.

Really appreciate if some experience users of SR71-B can help out here. Thank you!

 

I emailed ALO recently, because I was concerned that my Grado phones might experience the hiss that some with sensitive IEMs have already complained about.  Their reply was the mkIII does have a higher level of ground noise then their "International" amp/dac (those are the 2 I'm choosing between) but with even Grados it shouldn't be an issue, like it is with some IEMs.

 

But RSA amps tend to be dead quiet, even the beefy SR-71B.

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post #617 of 619
5/20/13 at 7:08am
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Originally Posted by ButtUglyJeff View Post

I emailed ALO recently, because I was concerned that my Grado phones might experience the hiss that some with sensitive IEMs have already complained about.  Their reply was the mkIII does have a higher level of ground noise then their "International" amp/dac (those are the 2 I'm choosing between) but with even Grados it shouldn't be an issue, like it is with some IEMs.

But RSA amps tend to be dead quiet, even the beefy SR-71B.

Thank you for the info! I've made my mind and paid for the Meier Quickstep instead, it has great reviews like no others, most importantly, it is the most affordable for me given the performance it has. smily_headphones1.gif
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post #618 of 619
5/20/13 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by precsmo View Post

Hi, probably it is a little off topic, but I really need everyone's advice. I'm looking for an amp exclusively for my Compact Monitors Stage 3 CIEM, which is only 18ohms. At 1st I've short listed to Pico Slim or RSA the Shadows, but the SR71-B really draw my attention as it seems like an one time upgrade for all. I've HD650 but my priority is my CIEM.

Now I'm worrying if the SR71-B is way too overkilled and the gain is way too high for sensitive IEMs even at the lowest gain, in balanced mode? I'm really tempted with the SR71-B, but very worried if it is just way too powerful for CIEMs, further more, I've been only seeing reviews which the amp is praised to heaven but with full size headphone, it is very hard to find someone talk about the amp with sensitive iem.

Really appreciate if some experience users of SR71-B can help out here. Thank you!

Not off topic, but the reason why I switched from the ALO to the SR71B because there existed a hiss on my Traluncent 1plus2s, regardless of gain or whether or not an input source was connected.

 

This does not occur on the SR71B and I'd consider the Tralucents to be in the 'very sensitive IEM category'.

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post #619 of 619
5/20/13 at 9:39pm
Technically...the RxMK3 is better than International. But that ground noise turned me down. While i do love the sound from mk3...but i feel the international has quiter background noise and the sound is cleaner after all. And the rsa intruder beats them both..in term of clarity and detailing not to mention it has almost a dead silence background.
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