Looking for some help to troubleshoot an issue with my Focal Utopia headphones. I've only recently re-started listening to music after a long distance move. By way of reference, I have three DAC/Amps (Hugo Chord 2, WA5 and Matrix Element X) and two cables (standard cables and 3rd party balanced...

I can see this could expensive fast...

Thanks The unit I bought is second hand and came with Fulllmusic 300B/Q, Sylvania 6SN7, Sophia Electric 274B - going to try these out for a while and then try different combos like the one you suggested.

Just picked up a WA5 gen 2 and looking for tube recommendations (will be paired with Focal Utopias)? This is my first tube amp so very green in terms to what to try next.

Received my unit yesterday and decided to run a test of the battery -if it has issues will return it,but so far looking good. Has been playing on my Roxannes (not balanced) on medium gain using the Tidal app for 10 hours now and battery is still 50%.At the rate this is going will be going to...

Building my first complete desktop rig, and am converging on the following set-up:   Auralic Aries -> Hugo Chord -> Burson Solist -> HD800   I have had the Hugo Chord and the Burson Soloist for a while (driving a pair of LCD-2 rev 2), but am finally upgrading the source (iPhone w/NAS ->...

Does anyone know if the P1 can output DSD over the optical out?   Looking for a transport for the Hugo and this may fit the bill nicely.

Absolutely. Listening to some pieces of music, it's as if I'm hearing them again for the first time. Simply astounding.   This forum was massively in helpful in sorting out all the buying options. It's funny, when I started looking I told myself I was going to keep it under $500, but oh well....

Decided this weekend to get into high-end headphones (I have a decent speaker set-up, but realized that the space I live in is just too difficult acoustically), but was skeptical that there was going to a big change when moving up from my un-amped Westones 4.   Now sitting at my desk with a...