It's quite a change. Back in the early days they made their music with a lot of digital equipment. Later they converted it to be played by an orchestra, quite a challenge for that orchestra. But when you listen to the "with orchestra" album you can say they did a very nice job. With the...

    Heard them live today in Antwerp. They were promoting their new album. I've got a signed copy :-)  

  Hooverphonic - with orchestra live

Kinda strange M83, didn't knew he made movie scores beside the '80s sounding pop:   "Oblivion"- M83

Did someone hooked up the Modi to a Hifiman EF2a? I'm planning to replace the internal dac of the EF2a with an external Modi as DAC.

"To The Roof" - John Powell "Time" - Hans Zimmer "$160 Million Chinese Man" - David Holmes "69 Police"- David Holmes

To comment on the Tung Sol tubes:   I replaced the original tubes with these: Tung-Sol 5654/6096//6ak5W/6J1/EF95   Bought them at: http://www.ebay.com/usr/tubemazestore     I replaced the original tubes because I had some problems listing piano music on the ef2a. When some high tones...

OK, kick the post :-)   What actually my question is in short:   Is the Schiit Modi a good upgrade for the EF2a?  Or is the DAC of the Modi a better one than the one in the EF2a?

Since two years now I own a Hifiman EF2a and I'm very pleased with the amp. It runs a AKG 242HD over-ear headphone, the combination is pretty. When I first used this combination, I immediately heard that the EF2a and the 242HD needed to get burned-in. The sound was filled with a lot of hi...