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Nice one ! But does the Tera player really benefit from amping ?
Yep, especially about power wise.
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~That is a tasty looking IC you got there. Looks like 2 strands of Piccolino + some heavy insulated silver?
It's DIRIGENT Red Label, if I'm not mistaken, it's almost twice as expensive as piccolino m2m
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are we really amping a TP. It sounds so good on its own and this surely is an inferior amp, in fact most i have tried are, it is also double amping as TP has now line out....
Yes, that's the double amping, but the Tera does has very clean headphone out even at max volume, so I don't find any distort problem there.
For IEM, adding this amp is more about taste, the ortofon really make the vocal become so sweet and so enjoyable, better than just direct to Tera. Also, we get bonus more power to drive headphone, though the ortofon isn't really a very powerful amp. (Technicality wise I don't find the ortofon offering more detail or cleaner separation)
I don't know much about the Tera Player and your mini-2-mini but I'm glad to see you have the Ortofon MHd-Q7! That's one of my new fav portable amps these days!! Beautiful 3D rendering with that amp.
Nay, they're not mine, but my friend instead
What I like the most about MHD-Q7 is how they presented the midrange, it's just so sweet and has a good realism feeling. It's not very neutral amp, I feel a little coloration that can improve the singer emotion, so it's coloration in a good way indeed. I just a bit complain about the soundstage, sometimes I feel it's too narrow.