Sorry if this has been discussed before. I could not find it but to be fair I did not read all 100 pages of this thread. I have the Comet IEMs. They sound awesome. I use them mostly with my A&K AK300 DAP. Today I plugged them into my iPhone 7+ and while the pause button on the cable works...

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The CMA600i does not have balanced inputs so you will not be able to use the balanced inputs from the DAC to your Questyle without a conversion. What would be really nice is if the DirectStream DAC had a digital output. Note from the DAC manual that it is not recommended to use the balanced...

How are you feeding the CMA600i from the PS Audio DAC? It must be analog as there are no digital outputs to feed it that way?

The SE are the way to go. You can get 13DE7 tubes lots of places for under $40. The rectifier tubes can also be had for about the same to savvy shoppers. That said the stock tubes are fine and can be used for a long time without rolling them. I have the SE. I love it. Those LCD-3 will take...

I recently bought the HD800S and love them. I had thought about waiting for the 820 but decided that I didn't care about closed headphones. Now I am glad I didn't wait. I realize it's just one person's opinion but it was well written and well thought out. Thanks for doing it.

I received a new pair of the LCD-2 today and was very surprised to find that they came with the LCD2-C headband. I am very pleased.

The first Gen takes a 6 series driver tube while the Gen 2 takes the 13DE7 as it's stock tube. Some say this results in less opportunities to tube roll. I have a Gen 2 amp and found lots of available tubes to try.

It has been well documented here about how bad the quality and support is for the Hifiman products. Perhaps the high end stuff is okay but as you get lower in the cost structure you are really taking a chance with this company. I really wanted to try the Sundara but Hifiman is #1 on my don't...

Cardas makes XLR to RCA connectors. I use them all the time. You would use the XLR to RCA to convert the balanced output to an RCA output to feed your Azur. Don't do that speaker thing. It's not the way to go.

I have only had the Clear for about a week and a half. I have had them on break in since I received them. After about 20 hours they sounded a bit thin but now that they have 120 hours on them they are beginning to sound like I thought that they might. I need another week to really get them...

No sure which article you are referring to. The WA6-SE goes for $1190 in the US.

I have the WA6-SE V2. I bought it at the end of 2017 and have run it in about 200 hours. I tried the stock tubes and also bought the 13EM7 tubes with the adapters which are nice but the magic for me seems to happen with a pair of NOS Sylvania 13DE7 tubes. For the rectifier I bought the Sophia...

Just got my Clear today and immediately put them on break in. Anyone have a feel for how long it took until they sounded broken in? I have heard it takes at least 200 hours. That seems like a long time. Just looking for feedback from others and their experience.