I am curious to hear your opinion here. I found the Stealth and Expanse in my system to be much better than the HE-1 + Chord Dave. I listened on multiple days for quite a while and was quite disappointed with it. And I was intimately familiar with Dave, after owning it for 2 years +. I also...

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You might want to read more on the HM1 if you think that is the issue. More current is exactly what improved the Stealth over my Oor stack. Expensive as it may be, still cheaper than the Immanis. I look forward to hearing it some day.

I mean I am a bit sick of marketing. I did own the Ca-1a with the Ti-1b and Star 8 + Mitch filters. It was my favorite headphone until I got the HM1. Part of the reason I never really used them anymore was that the foam on them just carpet burned my skin raw after a few months. The other part...

I mean, the Ferrum Oor is one of the most powerful desktop amps, so it hardly compares to the Fiio. The Hm1 even has less power, but more current than the Oor stack, yet it didn't drive the Ca-1a as well as the Oor. I just don't see any ribbon driver working well with a portable. Hell the...

I mean...acceptable is extremely relative. My Ferrum Oor + Hypsos drove the Stealth to acceptable levels, but I preferred the Ca-1a off it. Once I got the HM1, the Stealth just leapfrogged it that I no longer found the Ca-1a "acceptable".

I'd be curious as to how it compares to the Immanis, and how well the HM1 would drive the Immanis. I'm considering one, but not sure it would have enough power to bring the best out of it.

I don't have the Utopia, but have been considering one for years. My only concern is that it will not be on the same technical level as other flagships i've had, and I would end up just using the Expanse over it. That said, I've had the Ferrum stack with Susvara, D8K Pro Le, Stealth, Expanse...

It's much more in my system :P Not sure how well it would play with the Hm1 though, and I would not get another amp specifically for it...

Did you get a chance to hear it first? I sold my Raal Ca-1A after preferring the Expanse. I also now prefer the Stealth to the Expanse, bass aside. Not sure how well the Immanis would jive with the HM1, but I feel like like it's quite overpriced regardless.

Let me guess, selling it to get the Immanis?

I'm not coming from an ASR perspective here, I've tested things myself for 8+ years and went from evereything to a Fiio E10k, Chord Mojo, Dave, M-scalers, Optical isolation, streamers ,etc before throwing money at dCS. I also use a power conditioner and a power regenerator, both of which make...

Well i’m proud of us. It took 96 pages before we got to “tuning” the Hm1 with the classic audiophile crap:) good effort

This seems like the wrong way to do it. I have my Rossini to 0db at all times, outputting 6V for the Expanse and Stealth ( had it on 2V for the Meze Elites) and no gain on HM1. Why would you want digital attenuation? As good as the dCS is compared to Chord for example, throwing away bits and...

That trunk is insanely small. Macan? :P