Wow just can't wait to listen to this after reading Jude's latest impressions. It's really gonna be a war for high end headphone this year, HE-1000, LCD-Z and new Sennheiser flagship (informed that it will be better than Orpheus).

  When I first paired Abyss with LAu, I did feel that my cables, XLR interconnect, digital cable (AES) and AC power cord for LAu limited this system even though each cable costs around $1,000. That's not really good because I had to invest all new cables and now I'm broke :(        Aluminata...

Pairing LAu with Abyss and cabled by JPS Aluminata (AC, XLR,AES) making headphone come closest to speaker I've ever tried before.

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There maybe some from those DIY's but I'm not that familiar with them. Actually I've been waiting for fully balance desktop DAC/Amp for the good price as well as sound quality for a long time so this make me feel quite excited especially this is from known company.

This device is interesting. I've never seen integrated DAC and fully balanced headphone amplifier before.

Quote:     I don't think they both are worth the asking prices as well as LCD3. I still like Sony R10 (bass heavy) the most. But if you are looking for the best headphone that is currently available in the market with no limited budget, I think they are just only two options now. They...

Quote:   FYI, The owner had Stax SRM-007tII and compared to Leben CS600 using converter for few days. He said "it's like day and night". Leben CS600 is much much better than SRM-007tII in every aspect. Don't forget that LS600 is 3 times more expensive than SRM-007tII.

Again, my friend borrowed my Abyss to compare to his headphone collection. He affirmed my opinion that other dynamic/planar headphones are in different league, can't compare to quality of Abyss and SR-009 at all even they were upgraded to very expensive cables . The sources are AURALiC...

Quote: This SRM-007tII is quite special because I bypassed fuse and upgraded tubes. I compared this one to Woo WES max upgraded and I didn't feel it was lack of the power at all. It was even better in bass response and mid but narrow soundstage and less refinements. Anyway, I have been...

I just had a chance to listen to Abyss AB-1266 seriously today,, Sources are Weiss MAN301 + Weiss MEDEA+ Dynamic amp is Bryston BHA-1 Electrostatic amp is STAX SRM-007tII Headphones; Sennheiser HD800, Fostex TH900, Audeze LCD3, Beyerdynamic T1, Abyss AB-1266 and STAX SR-009   If you...

I will be at the event this time.

Today I just had a chance to meet developer of JVC DX-1000, DX2000, also the global manager of headphone division.   They said DX-1000 and DX-2000 are identically using the same drivers and has the same sound quality.   The differences are   1) Housing finish                   ...

So now there are 6 options for OpAmp to be installed in Go-DAP X or even Socket DD1 which are Muses01, LME49860, OPA2134, MUSES8920, OPA627, OP-275. I'm confused to choose now. Do you have any suggestion AnakChan?

AnakChan,   How is the sound quality after upgrading to OpAmp LME49860 ? Is it a lot improved from OPA2134 (black) or MUSES8920 (red) ?