Thanks. The Hugo 2 looks good. Are there any portable balanced amps out there worth looking at, in your view? The Moon looks like a wonderful piece, but it's not even remotely portable. Good to know! I would say the Hugo 2 is about as large as I'd like to go for any one component. I'm open to...

Hi all, it's been a while since I posted here so apologies if this is the wrong forum. What are the current options for a really good, really portable DAC/amp that can do justice to the HD800?

Yes, that was my first impression as well -- when I heard the HE60 on the original amplifier, I hated them. But when I heard the HE60 on a different amplifier they sounded much better.

People talked about "transparent and delicate," that seems accurate enough. But I did own the HE90 and HD600 and SR-007 for many years, built amplifiers for them, took them to many meets, and even wrote an HE90 - HE60 - SR-007 comparison review...

HE90 is very clear and detailed, with very deep but not strong bass, and a tremendously musical somewhat warm quality. HD600 and friends are not even close. HD800 I've only heard for a few minutes but could be a step in the right direction. Stax Omega II (SR-007) has lots of bass but not the...

Everyone loves how they sound... and everyone definitely loves how the HE90s feel. Mentioning the price always gets a 'wait... what?'

The Omega2 are really touchy about all sorts of variation... pad rotation at the very least. I've had them sound quite different after a haircut!

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Quote: Originally Posted by Demolition That's good to know. For a second there, I thought this was some sort of Waco-esque suicide contraption for when the men in black come to your door. That's the beauty of it. My imaginary detcord -- without any detonators -- is just as...

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Grenades? Shotguns? Jeez. And I thought I was nuts for having sewn some homemade detcord into my pillow -- it kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "throw pillow." It doesn't hold a candle to the M79 that one of the ROTC guys has on "loan" from a training exercise, of course...

Agreed. I love my ER-20s.

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Quote: Originally Posted by jpelg Now you can go to a meet, and have four or five HE90's!!! Some members own more than one pair! That was but a pipedream only a few years ago. [...] Secondly, I also think the HE90's scale up with better equipment, beyond even what the O2's are capable...

In one of those "do I really write like that?" moments, I went back through my HE90 vs. Omega2 review, and found the following paragraph: Quote: Originally Posted by eric343 With discs like the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “What Hits?!”, all bets are off. The Red Hot Chili Peppers aren’t...