I've realised I left this hanging. Now the heatwave is over and temperatures are back to normal the V280 gets very warm (about thirty-five degrees if I put a cheap thermometer on top), but not excessively hot. The Quad 306 in the same rack gets hotter and that's lasted 20+ years, so I'm not...

Thanks everyone, it is a mini-heatwave at the moment but its in a well ventilated rack. I'll check with Violectric and see what they say.

Hi all, does anyone find their V280 gets very hot? Mine doesn't quite reach the 'too hot to touch' stage, but it's decidedly toasty when I put my hand on top. The volume control also gets very warm as well. It takes a while to warm up, so its not an instant thing, and then it stays constant...

The shoutiness has gone now and there's no weakness in the bass any more. It's a more controlled low end compared to the NAD, without the bloom that the NAD applies to everything. That's both good and bad, depending on the recording quality, but I'm hearing more details in the music than I did...

The balanced adaptor is on its way, although I don't want to lose too much bass (I say hopefully). I had the Schitt Mjolnir before (a year or two ago), so I was always planning on going that way. I just have 2x3pin cable at the moment, which appears to have fallen out of favour with...

Thanks, 30-60 hours isn't too painful. Of course then the adaptor will have turned up and that'll need to run in too :-)

Hi all, I switched from headphone listening to speakers a few years ago, so on the rare occasions I used my HD800 it was on 1970's receivers and 1980's integrated amps. They all had a big, rich, mellifluous sound that I liked, but they lacked the precision or refinement of a good headphone amp...

  I've been buying a lot of vintage kit recently, mostly gear I couldn't afford when it came out 20+ years ago but is now someone's hand-me-down.   I've therefore ended up with a Theta DS Pro Progeny and a Chroma 396 (non-HDCD), amongst others.  Apart from age and the output level on the...

Thanks for the feedback, that's very helpful.  I'm still tempted to stick a DAC option in there to complete the buttons, but it would be a bit of a waste.  Do you know what the 24/192 DAC is comparable to (i.e. V800 - probably optimistic)?

Chalk me up as interested.  I can't get the violectric.de site to work properly though, as the 'links' in grey at the bottom don't appear to be links.  Does anyone know if Violectric offer a 30 day returns policy and what the rules are?  I could order from Thomann but they may not have the right...

I've also joined the PanAm owners club!  I saw the sale and decided to risk it even though I've seen mixed reviews with the HD800s.  I got the Passport as well and they should be arriving on Monday.  I originally ordered the black version but apparently that's discontinued, so I ended up getting...

My 'final' set-up was Sony PCM-D100 -> Chord Hugo -> Earmax Pro (RCA/Mullard) -> HD800, with sysconcept optical cable, Cardas Golden Reference interconnects and Cardas Clear Light headphone cable.  That wasn't a set-up I was perfectly happy with however as the Earmax lacks a little in low end...

Has anyone compared the Bakoon with Red Wine Audio amplifiers?  I'm particularly interested in how they handle the HD800s.

It's been a little while since I reported on the D100 and its been playing merrily away in the background for much of that time.  The batteries in playback mode are lasting a good amount of time and I don't really notice them now, just switching over to the next set of rechargeables every now...

  I've tried using an online UPS, which was completely consistent, but the sound quality didn't meet my needs (HD800s are rather demanding).  I've also tried filters, balanced transformers and a variety of other stuff, most of which brought significant improvements but I've never reached 100%...