Amp for SR-009 that can drive also other headphones?

Electrostats like SR-009 needs totally different amplifiers and won't be compatible with those dynamics you mentioned.

 

The closest solution I can think of is to get a really powerful standard headphone amp and using something like a WEE transformer to drive the electrostats as well.

Malvalve is the only company I know of that makes an amp that works with both Stats and Dynamics.  Consider though that its likely to be somewhat of a compromise on both though.

 

Better way to spend $5000:

 

Electra (Electrostatic amp) - $3500 Pre-order price

Super 7 (Dynamic amp) - $1500 Black Friday special

Edited by Radio_head - 11/15/12 at 8:49am

I think Ray's A-10 can.

The A-10 can double as a preamp, not a dynamic headphone amp.

Oops, sorry then. Thanks for the clarification.

Any attempts to marry such different beasts will always be a compromise and a huge one at that. 

 

 

No. 

I second the opinion on getting a Woo Audio WEE. I think it's a great idea. I am in the process of ordering one from my dealer so that I can try pairing it with my Cary SLi-80. If it's a good match, I'll have the Cary running triple duty, driving speakers, driving electrostats through the WEE and driving my dynamic cans througgh it's headphone out. I might add that the headphone out on the SLI-80 sounds absolutely awesome to me and it was the reason I bought it in the first place. I ahven't really got the room or the time toi get back into speakers.

You can always get a Stax SRD-7 Pro or mkII which does the same thing as the WEE and costs much less.

No. 

OP, what you want doesn't exist.  If you want stats, you need a stat amp, the cost of which will be significant if you want to do it right.

 

And for your dynamics, you need a dynamic amp.

 

These are the realities of owning both types of rigs.  It doesn't make economic sense for everyone.

It does exist, it just looks like he only has a few hundred dollar budget.  At that budget, it's either cheap stax amp and cheap dynamic amp, or dynamic amp+ SRD-7/WEE

 

That Malvalve scares me.

Malvalve max output for electrostatic is only 800Vp-p and for dynamic is only 12W into 8ohms per channel balanced. These seem like major compromises on both sides, and it still costs north of $5500. Combining electrostatic amp and dynamic amp with both of them sounding great is not *impossible.* You just have to convince Justin to stuff BHSE and GSX into one box.