Random point I noticed today. I much prefer the HD600 over the HD660S2. At least with this dac with pcm Mid filter playing cds with Nos off. It's amazing how natural this sounds. It perfectly mixes with the medium filter on this dac. Timbre is so natural. Great mix if people haven't tried it...

Wow, for anyone that uses this dac with HQplayer and possibly missed how to get no noise/hiss in background using DSD...page 307 on this thread is a life saver. I wish I found that page sooner. Thanks guys for going over how to get no hiss. This is incredible. No wonder people love DSD. Would be...

How’s the latest batches of this amp going and the heat? Definitely considering it strongly now but wanted to give them time to iron out the kinks if there were any.

Appreciate it. Looks like reading that thread it’s probably not bad overall to set it to 20 bits as that’s still a lot better than picking 24 but perhaps going down to 15 is even better. Not sure if any of this would be audible at that low of levels but yea if the consensus is to choose 15 bits...

I found some convos going back and forth on Roon forums in thread Which HQP Filter are you using? [2024]. I suggest you read through it for the Jussi posts. Ares II: Oh yes I found the point by Jussi responding to someone else on January 17th about them running their Ares II at 16 bits as they...

Well that’s cool because that’s exactly what the headphone show video said about the hd600 I believe so maybe there is something to it.

I feel like through this forum and news lately this amp is making a bit of a comeback since audio devices tend to fade into the background over time. Cameron on the headphone show live YouTube video just suggested people get the SA-1 if they want to get a reasonably priced headphone amp and...

Did you try PCM with the different R26 filters? I really love the fast filter currently playing CDs. Curious if you normally notice a difference between the filters and if Cyan 2 has similar options that sound the same? If they pulled that off, that’s great for consumers because it’s cheaper.

Maybe that’s why it sounds so good :). Taking something off the dac, similar to the headroom concept. No I don’t know how much your dac output matters as well. Or just caught me on a good couple of days. Or audio is crazy and that’s why everyone has different preferences. Edit: just read again...

Yea I mean I don’t want to steer someone the wrong way but this timbre is incredible. But as I added to my last post a lot of it might depend on your dac. My dac is really enjoyable to many people and maybe the R2R sound/filter mixes well with my headphones. I do think SE out might have Inherent...

Seems like with my setup it’s very close between balanced in and SE in but seems like my dac does a better job with balanced out as it seems to have more to the music (little more bass/drums are more enjoyable) but all could be placebo/ slight volume differences. But for now sticking with...

Cool and that is strange. How about SE in with SE out. Is that more gain than Balanced in and SE out?

Thanks for sharing. Finally tried SE out for first time in awhile with my concept of turning up low gain pretty high and really loving this with fast filter (needed for voices to have their full sound) on my dac. Balanced out also sounds great of course but this sounds less stretched out (SE)...

I don’t have the s17 pro but I do have the SA-1. To me your review makes perfect sense. The other poster said in the 50 mode they are similar amps and in 100 mode they like the S17 pro better. Which to me means a more tube like sound is enjoyable in that setup or to that person. Where your setup...

Not sure if I totally understand the situation, but one thing to know about this amp is a lot of the volume is near the end of the pot. For example I was listening last night on low gain and I was loving the music at around 4 o clock. Which is loud (but not fatiguing with my headphones and dac)...