I've had a good look at the Audiovalve website and agree that the Solaris is very impressive (as are several of their other headphone amplifiers). I will try to listen to them somewhere as, for me anyway, they are priced at a level where I would want to hear them before purchase. I'll keep an...

Thank you, yes my budget is "somewhat flexible". I'm certainly not wedded to the ATH W5000's though I would like to match them with an amplifier to get me restarted. Once up and running I'll be in a better position to assess how often I use the headphones verses the loudspeakers and will then...

Many thanks, I'll'll have a look at that. Yes, being able to drive a Stax as well would be good. Not a brand I was familiar with.

Hello, this is my first post to Head-Fi though I have been a headphone user for the last 25 years. For most of that time I have used a pair of Stax SR007 Mk1's with an SR007T amplifier but because they were open back and my now teenage sons could hear everything and complained I sold them a year...