In my case absolutely not. When I say warmth it is to describe a bump in the upper part of the bass range. It sound pleasant to the ear, but is not really good Hifi. Whereas some seem to use the term for muted transients in the bass range - which I do not find preferable at all. From your...

...the music plays but do not engage in any way echos and acoustics are muted - but I cannot imagine why these tubes are so dead! No musicality at all *sob*. JJ-tubes, I actually have two sets of these both are new production, meaning from the last decade. And they do not sound the same at all...

I just have an Advance acoustics MCD-203 and a Jolida JD200. The Advance is a hybrid, while Jolida is one of the few that got all tube output plus a rectifier. Yes two CD's, I cant part from the Advance - it's not perfect in any way but it's so bloody musical, and it got balanced outputs. Even...

Hello Markus you are absolutely right about that. I was hesitant to post at all actually but without any reply I decided to give an opinion at least. Sadly now afterwards those Shuguang is the ones hardest to identify with certainty. But I can confirm it was not the Treasure series, which I...

I have heard Shuguang tubes, but never brought anyone back home and done any A/B test and so might be nothing more than an opinion. Anyway, treble is ok in the Shuguang without shining in any way, midrange is thick and I guess some will consider this to be 'presence' as they will lift a singer...

I just listened to a complete album on my ELAC speakers for the first time in a week. And just as Jon said, speakers add vibrations and there's a soundstage that headphones have trouble to reproduce. And even though I use my cans for detailed listening, I noted details that for some reason...

Oh yes that's true, and could be part of the story if connected to a tube amp. The pair I got is Beyerdynamic custom studio, those are 80 ohm. My standard issue and the ones I am all but married to is AKG 601 that got 120 Ohms. Now lets go into the not so nice details, Beyerdynamic got closed...

Those small ELAC need a bit of air yes, on a desk cluttered with monitor, printer and whatever they're not in their optimal space. And I say this even though I am a die hard ELAC fan. Stay away from Debut, they have made a serious error with that new line of speakers. Other brands mentioned...

Hello again. The choice all depend on what music he listen to. The Darkvoice actually have the ability to 'lift' average cans to a nice listening pleasure. Montezero just said what I had in mind here. Beyer Dynamic gives a lot of boom for the buck with their lower priced models. Suitable for...

I got the updated Darkvoice model, the La Figaro 336 'classic'. I knew from the start that the original tubes were far from adequate, in fact nearly any tube amp is a DIY job to get it right. (With the exception for a few super expensive headphone amps.) So swapping tubes is a good idea better...

My preference is actually go for gear and tubes where the music swing and live, over flat frequency response. So my gear is not very linear, and not 'HiFi' per definition.

Yes it doesn't matter if you swap tubes if the headphones got the wrong impedance from the start. For serious tube listening we prefer NOT to have a transformer between the headphone amp and our ears. One trafo would make it possible to use low impedance phones though. The whole point is to...

I had a look and it definitely is a clone using the Darkvoice brand to sell it. At a lower price point it might be worth the boucs. :gs1000smile: The very open design concern me a little bit though.

Great start on this thread, starting with Tool, 10 000 days. It is hard to find anything to match that, but there are a few metal albums in the same class. Third Moon, Sworn Enemy Heaven is one of the select few that qualify IMO. And since the group is relatively unknown, I add them as a...

"Lotsa' stuff coming out this March." Sure, some additional news for March:   Russian president election.   My car will finally leave the garage that after one overhaul that have been ongoing since November 2011.   John Carter film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/   And...

Hello Piotr, I have to agree with you to some degree there. Not much 'true' sound of the equipment we discuss here at least. There's one exception though, that comes very close to that ideal. And that is the German system and recordings with kunstkopf technique Sennheiser is the most known one...

I concur with what Skylab and what pataburd said.  These headphone amps should not be mated with any low impedance cans at all.   I went the other way and parted from the 701's and got myself the 250 ohm AKG 601's and the Darkvoice now perform as good as I could ever have expected.

@ Luckybear: So many words from me above here, and you said the same thing in that sentence. :D

Thank you sumathias, yes I think the 701's do very well with metal, I would have kept them if not for the problem with impedance. They had my amp work overtime to provide power for the bass range, and which therefore often came out too weak and would over time have burnt the tubes.   Yes the...

1: Impedance and your amp.   I happened upon a pair of AKG 701's for one exceptional price before I even had one headphone amplifier. But then I had to part from them since they had too low impedance, 62 Ω, for my tube headphone amp. Impedance is all important for many reasons, too much of...

Well first off, AKG 702 is the same as 701 but with a replacable cable, and in most cases I would say its not worth wasting money on that model. And besides outside of the pricetag.   Now I am one listener to Doom & Death metal, but I do like prog rock also. I am actually aware of King...

And they got a ribbon on top. So those are potentially the kind of speakers I would enjoy listening to. At a price of 14k dolares, im less likely a buyer though.   Now Cya mentioned ribbon headphones, I must say 'cya' and be off to a search to find out about those. :D

I admit the situation is the same for me, cans is used for full blast listening without any visits from aggrevated neighbours. Now for speakers, I cannot stand the muffled sound of Magnepans. And honestly im suprised those speakers have any kind of support at all.   Now ribbons have been...

I have been darkvoiced!!