Dr No
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Quote:The more impressions I get from the BHSE the more convinced I am that the BHSE is not that superior one might think after reading all the pre-production hyped posts.
One of the frustrating things about considering a purchase of this amp is the lack of impressions from owners. You read through this thread and see a lot of anticipation, but then ultimately once the amp is received the owners go quiet. Now, with a little perspective, I think I understand what is going on.
For example, I've been re-reading Darth Nut's posts here and elsewhere, and though it has taken me about 10 years, I think I finally am beginning to understand what he was saying. In a post on headwize, he wrote, "What the Omega2 offers to a long-term owner is ... simply long-term sonic payback. Nothing about its sound would captivate a person on first listening, unless the person was already an experienced listener who knows how to be immediately captivated by seemingly-uncaptivating sound. With time, it reveals its strenghts. Its strengths are its remarkable resolution powers, its weight and heft, and its forgiving yet revealing nature." Although he was using the SR-007 with the SRM-T2 and not a Blue Hawaii, I think his post is a remarkably apt in regards to the BHSE. People who buy the BHSE are by-and-large individuals who love the SR-007 despite its apparent "weaknesses" to headphones like the HE90. In his post on audio asylum comparing the SR-Omega to the SR-007, he wrote, "The trouble with ‘voicing’ a headphone to create a subtle out-of-the-head ‘headstage’ is that the headphone’s focus inevitably becomes compromised. The out-of-the-head ‘soundstage’ ends up becoming a ‘smear’, washing off the pin-pointed focus of voices and instruments. This is excactly the weakness of the Omega1: its lack of pin-pointed focus compared to the Omega2. If I were to offer a simplistic analogy it would be that the Omega1’s sound is like a large-size slightly out-of-focus photograph, while the Omega2’s sound is like a small-size sharp-focus photograph. And the average headphone is a small-size completely out-of-focus photograph." That is, the strengths of the SR-007 are a tradeoff against the strengths of the SR-Omega or the HE90: clarity and focus in imaging vs the "shimmering watercolor washes" of the SR-Omega.
When you are an individual who is looking for long-term sonic payback, the benefits can't be described with hour-by-hour burn in impressions like you see of headphones like the Ultrasone Edition 10. How does one describe "seemingly-uncaptivating sound?" The BHSE, like the SR-007 is something you buy because you love music, and because you want to experience your entire music collection, not just be wowed by a handful of your best-recorded albums. But I think this is why no one to my knowledge who has actually owned the BHSE has sold it. As immtbiker said, "To own this amp is an honor that should not be taken lightly. It's a lifelong keeper."
Finally, once you own the BHSE you don't really want to talk about it because it pretty much feels like you'd be rubbing it in everyones' faces.
Have you heard the headphones you are referring to? HE90, Stax Omega, or SR007? Sounds like you just quote old posts regarding them.
I do not like the SR007 and I don´t think that the BHSE can "compensate" for it´s weaknesses. A lot of people hype the 007, trying to conform to the general assumptions on this forum, without hearing it for themselves.
If the BHSE would make up for the weaknesses of the 007, I just think that people would post that on this forum. So far no one has. Strange to me.