I'm back to road shopping, meaning I move around a bit. Tubes are not the best traveling companion. Way to delicate. So I found a new home for the Woo WA-22 and tubes (which I thoroughly enjoyed using, primarily with a set of balanced T1's). The new owner has told me he is very happy with his...

So I have my WA22 setup, and all I have to drive it is a Marantz DV8400. Not a bad piece, but definitely not the right piece for the headphone amp. So I went shopping. And found exactly the right piece. Balanced tube outputs and very highly reviewed. Im not very familiar with Ayon, but like what...

I think want to buy a matched set of tubes from this website;   http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=2190956777   However, there does not seem to be an english version and I'm at a loss as to how I make contact to see if these are indeed what Im looking for. NOS GEC A1834's.   Is...

You had a budget of $2000-$2500 for a dedicated headphone pre-amp/amp. Hard budget. You can spend less, but not more. Lets open it up to either a tube or SS unit. And lets require a min of 1.5W-2W output. An amp youre going to live with for quite a while. That will drive 50 ohm Audere's as well...

Newbie here. Setting up my first headphone system (to be used at work). I think I know what amp and phones I want to use, but need informed input as to a DAC. Given a max cost of $500, what DAC's should I be looking at?