Yes the Mullards are lovely, but also quite expensive, not that that's a problem ! Personally I have the Russian reflector corp valves in my xcan and they are stunning and my are my all time favourite and are alot chaeper that the mullards if you can find them. If you love the xcan have a look...

get it get it get it, the xcan is a fab amp, I also run the 640 as my source which is also every bit as good as an xcan ! I personally use sennheiser cans with mine but the grado's (which I nearly brought) are also a great choice with them. If your handy you can also modify the xcan, by...

good choice on the stunning headphones, buy an amp for home and enjoy, I wouldnt worry too much about an expensive amp for an ipod though !

I am in the middle of upgrading my headpone amps capacitors and wondering about poss upgrading the caps in the NAD, it is the home theater reciever model and could poss do the front channels for stereo reproduction ?

to be honest the nad is still very good for a set of cans, its just that your on a website talking to alot of headphone extermists like myself, ther is always better just like cars really. Good luck on your quest, if you get really serious you'll prob end out with a dedicated amp, I enjoy my...

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sorry mistype - the wife came home and interupted me ... the link for the rca plugs is www.eichmann.com.au

I love my Wireworld polaris 3+'s, they are lovely sounding but very expensive. I use these as my reference and havent found anything quite as good, I have tryed many diff brands including QED, van den hul, monster (sucks), Audioquest etc. Regarding DIY cables - I have just made up a .7 mtr...

sorry - just reread and it says a 2nd power cord, why do you need two ? You can easy make one by buying the plugs and using wire to make up the length that you need, I did this from my power supply and tightly braided bigger black and blue wire together and then soldered on a new plug to the...

I take it you mean the entire cord with the wall mounted power supply, when you upgrade go to a bigger 500ma one at least, if you want even better you can buy a musical fidelity power supply to power your amp, or you could very easily make your own if your handy at things - view...

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most woman have no idea how much audio equipment costs, to them an expensive one may even look cheaper or more simple, it's great ! Also some males who arent that clued up dont have any idea of audio values or in fact for that matter what is good or what is bad other then be guided by what the...

Why is it that woman are not in the slightest bit interested in listening to the sweet sublime sound of our headpones ? I have only managed to get the cans on my wifes head a couple of dozen times and then I had to put on an old abba Cd and rub her feet fopr her to appreciate it ! There is a...

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I was heavily into car audio prior tpo home audio and even had my own installation business before moving onto selling cars. Every time that I have wanted a new piece of home audio equipment and believe me that has been plenty lately, I have simply sold some car audio equipment to fund it...

hey have a look at headphone.com they ahave some nice balanced amps !

try the tubes first and my advice is do the mods in seperate stages, you can then monitor the inprovements, good luck, valves make a big difference.

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I would go for the xcan in either version 2 (2nd hand) or in version 3 form new. these amps work beautifully with the sennheisers sound. When you are used to it and if you have the urge you can upgrade the valves in these also. You can also change capacitors and make up a seperate powersupply...

I have a new nad amp and also a dedicated xcan headphone amp. The NAD is ok, but when compared to the headphone amp over long periods of extended listening the head amp is far more detailed and sweeter sounding. The NAD is quite OK, but there is far better. The sound atfer comparing the two...

thanks- emailed from your link for the valves, I cant get them here in nz. I will send for them to the uk, are they better than the mullards, I know they are cheaper. We have a rs components here in NZ , hopefully they have the panasonic caps, do you have any other suggestions re caps ie...

I have just finished doing some mods to my xcan, Firstly I have made the Rock grotto power supply, the result a stunning difference ! The second thing that i have done is make up a silver .9 meter Rca cable with eichmann bullet plugs, It sounds superb and is the exact custom length that I needed...

good luck

bump, any more thoughts ? thanks

I need to make a longer headphone cable and will prob rewire the entire headphone. I have located some proel 3 wire headphone cable. Is it ok to use ? I know some people use a 4 wire or quad cable but understand that the ground is common on 3 wire ? Will this be ok, its made in italy and a good...