You just need to open your ears more. Your own opinion has been burned into your current setup. It's hard to appreciate something from a cursory trial since you'll just be looking for more of what your own system already gives you and miss out on everything that more expensive setups can...

The forwardness of the BHA-1 and it's greater bass quantity gives the amp a faster presentation than the HDVD800. It's not warm just like I wouldn't exactly call the LCD-2 warm. Warm is the HD650. The LCD-2 is fast and hard hitting but still sparkles in the treble. Meanwhile the HD800 gives a...

Me and Alan had a chance to AB the HDVD800 with balanced HD800 against Benchmark DAC1 > Bryston BHA-1 with balanced HD800 today. Both of us felt HDVD800 performed better than the DAC1 > BHA-1 on balanced. The HDVD800 is more realistic in rendition of soundstage and has greater detail. The BHA-1...

Quote:   You only need two conductors to make it balanced. A audio transducer (driver) only has two in general. The balanced comes from the fact that your return signal isn't tied together so you can have two separate amplifiers driving two separate channels like monoblocks. The XLR main...

Remove the rear vent of an open headphone and put the palms of your hands close to the rear of the driver. If you can't hear the difference, you need your hearing checked. Open back vs close is not a myth or marketing ploy, the resonant chamber of a speaker is critical to the sound of the...

Me and a friend are planning to go to balanced setups soon with either the HDVD800 or BHA-1. To save money and partially for kicks, we plan to DIY the HD800 balanced cables. What we're not sure about is the HD800 connectors which all seem to be different in some way. We're planning to buy Moon...

Never heard of this happening before. As in, if you put the cans down on a flat surface, they physically rattle against the surface? That's some bass!

For your case, the source (your tablet) is your source, DAC, and amplifier. So yes, it totally matters. Modern smart devices (tablets and phones) almost always use an audio section fabricated directly on the main chip (the SOC) of the device. These are horribly low quality. There are some...

That sucks.  Even though I think the original price for it was low compared to offerings from established industry competitors.  When you think of balanced amps out there, there's very few which for the amp alone are below 2000 USD.  Add on a balanced DAC which will normally exceed 1000 USD and...

Quote:   Uhh because whoever responded to the OP, presumably Ray, told him that the effect is "totally normal?"  Ie. Ray is not denying the problem rather acknowledging it and not taking responsibility for it.

Quote:   LOL!  And does Honda come and tell you the fried clutch is totally normal and not covered by warranty?  What we have here is a case where if your car rusted in the first year of purchase and you approached the dealer, they tell you rusting is a totally normal side effect of steel...

I've seen a lot of people around my university wearing low end Grados (sr 60s or 80s).  Every one of them can in some way be associated to the stereotype of "hipster."  lol.  Well I guess when everyone is wearing Beats and you wear a open back, home-grown phone out into the public it does make...

Quote:   lol.  What he drives and how he lives has nothing to do with how he conducts his business.  It's stupid both to say that he should not fix problems because he cannot afford to and to say that he should because fixing it is an insignificant amount of money for him.   The...

The entire BBC Planet Earth soundtrack composed by George Fenton and performed by BBC Concert Orchestra.

Considering you know of the existence of a headphone like the HE60, I find it very surprising you would be asking such a question lol.  And if you had the funds to acquire one, I wouldn't think you would be looking at such an amplifier either.