Introduction (feel free to skip): For nearly a decade, my family has been frequenting Xiamen (厦门) which is the largest city in the Fujian province in South Eastern China for vacations as my grandfather was born near the area prior to migrating to the Philippines. I actually got into Hi-Fi and...

The local dealer had a model the day it was put up on the Cypher Labs site and I'm still wondering how come nobody has made a thread about it.     Sustain84 Desktop Vacuum Tube Headphone Amplifier   Featuring NOS ECL84 tubes in a class A single ended design, the Cypher Labs Sustain84...

*originally posted on another forum category*   All these are Class A Output Transformer coupled tube amps (correct me if I'm wrong) that have sufficient power for majority of the planar magnetic headphones. I'm rather uneducated on tube types but if one could assume that the tubes that will...

All these are Class A Output Transformer coupled tube amps (correct me if I'm wrong) that have sufficient power for majority of the planar magnetic headphones. I'm rather uneducated on tube types but if one could assume that the tubes that will be used in these amps are similar or the same, what...

I won't be using the DAC section of the WA7 so I'll be looking purely at amplifier quality. The headphones these would be driving are mainly the MrSpeakers Alpha Dog and the Philips Fidelio L2 (not as much a priority). I understand tubes and everything change the sound signature but I'm...

I've been stalking the forum for a year now and I've finally decided to create an account. Right now I have a Sennheiser Momentum, a Centrance DACport LX, and a Fiio e11. For my end game, I'm planning to get one of the T50rp mods, either LFF's Paradox (Slant), Dan's MrSpeakers Alpha Dog with a...