I have been wanting a better amplifier for my HE-6 than my current Emotiva A-100, and due to desktop logistics am looking for a quality integrated amplifier. The main two I have been considering are the Ayre AX-7e or the Audia FL Three S Does anyone have experience with either of these two...

    Maybe you misunderstood, HE-6 has the best bass on a headphone that I have heard. I just did not like it through the Jotunheim. 

  I have tried it. I was able to max out the volume knob. Bass definitely seemed less impactful than with low cost speakers amps I have tried.

  I think you are missing the point that for $700 cheaper Tyll prefers the Focal Elear. Therefore for him the the HD800S is not a good value. It is not just in comparison to the Utopia.

Thank you for the advice.

Does anyone know what sort of price one might pay for an SR-009 if actually in Japan? Could one expect to get a better deal than on PriceJapan.com?

I had commissioned one to be built as well and was curious, what was the total number of F5 clones he had in the works?

  I do not think you understood my point. Schiit is not competing with Marantz.

I hope the Ragnarok will be nothing like the offerings from Marantz, Denon and even McIntosh. I hope it will be better, better like how a bottle of scotch is better than a bicycle. . .

I am not sure why people keep saying Emotiva amps have high gain. Based on the specifications the gain seems pretty average compared to other speaker amps.

  Not a bad rough translation in my opinion. Although I would say the HE-5LE would be closer to the HD600 sound signature than the HE-500.

  Sorry to quote something so many pages back. But while looking around for speaker amps to power the HE-6 I found that McIntosh, Krell, Nad, and Bryston all have 29dB gain as well. I am not all that knowledgable in the field of audiophile power amps so I did not know that many names to look...

I am not sure you can doubt an opinion. . .   Impressions were asked for, I gave mine which I stand by.

  I did get a chance to try that pairing and I found it to be surprisingly good. Not optimal, but it was enough to make the HE-6 still sound better than a perfectly driven the HE-500.

  So would you be of the opinion that XPA-1L monoblocks would not be that good of an HE-6 End Game Amp?