FYI, your view that tube amps take “edge off the famous treble peak/bright sound the HD800S and HD800 often has, even with great solid-state amps” is limited by your experience with solid state amps. I hear no such edge with my CFA3, M^3 ( this one has Staccato discrete opamps) or the head amp directly from Playback Designs Merlot. 800S sounds full, highly dense and weighty, transparent and musical in my systems.
• SparkoS Labs Gemini truly shines with lower impedance headphones, in part because of the Gemini mere 0.25 ohm output impedance.
• Below, with a NOS Telefunken ECC801S tube, driving Grado PS500e (38 ohms):
• SparkoS Labs Gemini truly shines with lower impedance headphones, in part because of the Gemini mere 0.25 ohm output impedance.
• Below, with a NOS Telefunken ECC801S tube, driving Grado PS500e (38 ohms):
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