I can make the case for both speakers and HP. I don't listen enough to a system I have more than $150k into because I don't want to disturb the family (I listen LOUD). That's why I am looking at phones (again). Would prefer not to have top spend more than $5k all-in because I have spent a lot...

The room does matter. Mine is not so great but I have learned things about acoustics and have invested $$$ in room correction products that make even a meh room sound pretty good. My system is very high end. Would it sound even better in a good room, absolutely but it still kicks ass.

Thanks for the response. How the hell do you accomplish that? No dealers locally (S. Florida). I'd hate to invest $5k in a phone and then find out it doesn't work with a pair of $12k amps and then have to buy another amp. Now I remember why I got out of high end HP about 5 years ago and just...

Any opinions on pairing a 35W SET amp (6C33) with either the Abyss or the Susvara phones? I have a pair of Wall M50s just sitting around gathering dust that I used in a set-up with single driver speakers. The Walls sounded great driving Tonian speakers and I thought might be good driving...

I have a V280 which is basically a V281 without the flexibility.  I only needed a headphone amp as I have a high-end preamp in the system.   After living with the V280 for 3 months I love it's punch and raw power.  It's a little cooler than I am used to with my LCD-X at least compared to the...

    I understand how it works.  If it could be replicated more cost-effectively I believe it would have and that information would be at least semi-widely available.   For me, given the fact that I have multiple systems that I have decent money into it was worth it.   Check out the...

    Maybe, maybe not.  I honestly don't know enough to say.   I do know that a lot of people with significant investments in an audio system have one and swear by it.  For me it was worth the purchase.    

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***UPDATE ***   I bought and received a Cable Cooker this week to burn in all my cables.  I started with the XLRs that run into the V280.  Burning them in made a HUGE difference.  The upper midrange glare is totally gone and the bass is even tighter than it was before.  Tonally it sounds very...

I am in Palm Beach County, Lake Worth to be precise.  I have a pair of LCD-X and I just bought a Violectric V280 amp for them.  I trade in and out of equipment pretty frequently.  I may or may not be able to make it Saturday on short notice but Pompano in general is OK for me.   I don't have...

First (and very brief) thoughts after 2 days on break-in...   1) Very powerful, drives the LCD-X with authority   2) Music emerges from a black background, zero noise in between passages.   3)Fantastic bottom end, much better than the RWA Audeze amp.   4) A little harder upper midrange...

Just unboxed mine so haven't had too long to listen.  The one thing I noticed immediately was the slam and how robust the power supply is.  I actually had to set the preamp to -6db and that's with the LCD-X.  I had a RWA Audeze previously and while that drove the LCD-X OK I had to turn it up...

I'll post my thoughts after the weekend.  Scheduled to arrive on Friday.

I just bought a V280 yesterday from the very helpful Arthur Power.   I will pair this with my LCD-X and a PS Audio DAC/Transport front end.  Looking forward to receiving it and getting it plugged in for the weekend. 

Has anyone ever tried the HE-1000 with the RWA Audeze headphone amp?  I sold my LCD-X phones last year and am deciding between getting a new pair of 'phones for that amp or selling the amp altogether.  I had the RWA in a system with PS Audio Transport / PS Audio DSD.  Have recently read a few...