I saw your original post and was wondering what the solution was?   I'm also a Little Dot MK III newbie, and am just curious what you ran into.

What tubes did you end up rolling with? heh. I'd love to try out a different set in my MK III. I was thinking 8100s.   Quote:  

I've been in a similar predicament myself, and I just made my choice:   I decided to go with a Little Dot MK III to pair with my new DT 880 (600 Ohms). I've only had the amp for a few days and am in the middle of burning everything in for the first time, but it sounds better and better every...

The online reference manual for the Little Dot MK III suggests a different gain configuration than the one that came with the amp itself.   Excuse me, I was mistaken in my earlier post, but it wasn't my fault! I wrote that post while I was at work following the chart that David had sent me...

Quote:   Going by the chart on page 8 of the Little Dot MK III Reference Manual I thought that a gain of 3, not a gain of 10, would be the proper match for high impedance (600 Ohm) headphones. I am pairing this amp with my own pair of DT 880 (600 Ohms) and was rather disappointed with the...

Quote: Thanks, I had been looking into the HRT Streamer 2+ and I hear its performance is great. Not necessarily a bad thing as I really just want digital to analog conversion, but it does lack many of the features and inputs that I would find useful on other DACs. Quote: This...

Quote:   I'll tell you once my mkIII arrives. I've been staring at the 880s in a box on my desk for the last 3 weeks while I decided on an amp to properly drive them. It's currently en-route from Hong Kong, so I'll hopefully have some feedback for you sometime next week.     Still...

Quote: Can anyone with this combination (DacMagic & DT 880) comment on the sound? I would like to avoid any harshness in the treble area, but this claim was not something I personally had come across in my reading about the DacMagic and DT880.   Still open to purchase suggestions.  

I'm definitely not opposed to a good DAC / Amp combo as long as the quality of the DAC does not suffer from the included cost of the amp. In my OP, I was considering the Zero Dac and uDac2 which have a built in headphone amp. It would be neat to do some A/B testing of the included SS amps vs my...

Friendly Bump.   I think I've narrowed my choices to the Little Dot DAC_I, Cambridge Audio DacMagic, and the Music Fidelity V-DAC II, pending any other suggestions. Any thoughts on that matchup from owners?   Another Head-Fi'er posted this elsewhere: Quote:   Can anyone comment...

I think I've narrowed my choices to the Little Dot DAC_I, Cambridge Audio DacMagic, and the Music Fidelity V-DAC II. Any thoughts on that matchup from owners?    Of course, these are all more than I was originally planning on spending, but I cant justify putting even $150 into a possibly...

  I recently bought a pair of DT 880 (600Ohm) headphones and a LittleDot MK III tube amp to go with them, and I was looking for a nice DAC to complete my setup. Any suggestions?   I'm a relatively new audiophile and although I've been doing research for a few months, I haven't picked a...

At this point I'm mainly wondering how much of a gain I'll hear by choosing a Beresford, V-DAC, or DacMagic over the cheaper but possibly less reliable Zero Dac 09 Edition.   I was pretty excited to buy a Zero because of its price point and positive sound reviews, that is before I read the...

  I recently bought a pair of DT 880 (600Ohm) headphones and a LittleDot MK III tube amp to go with them, and I was looking for a nice DAC to complete my setup. Any suggestions?   I'm a relatively new audiophile and have almost no experience with DACs. I've been doing research for a few...

I've been reading head-fi over the past few months while shopping for my first part of audiophile headphones. There really is a lot of great information on this site (mostly in the forums) that eventually led me to 3 choices. I decided to pull the trigger on 3 of them at Amazon for comparison...