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Hello Everyone, I'm in 2 minds about this but I don't think I listen enough due to lack of time to justify a TOTL. I'm thinking of downsizing. If anybody wants an excellent condition Utopia 22 please message me. I'm the first owner, purchased from authorized dealer in France with 4 years...

Hello Everyone, I have a Dynalo Mk2 amp (230V) for sale. This one is ''fully loaded'' . It's balanced and supersymmetry with the Golden Reference linear power supply and genuine NOS monolithic Toshiba jfets. It's essentially like a Headamp GSX Mk2/Mjolnir Audio Pure Bipolar without the fancy...

My first flagship level headphone ever was the HD800S in 2016. I've completely given up on Sennheiser since then as it looks like they've given up on us. Never going to waste my time on another survey. Accentum Plus? This is what you're teasing on Headfi??????

An incredibly good price! Glws

Wow. It’s like they budgeted $5 for the case design and materials 😂 Audiophiles are very heavily influenced by aesthetics and at nearly $3K I wonder how many people will want this in their listening space? They have a chance of a number of reviewers ( salespeople) gush about its magical sound...

In Spain but this is sold long ago

Amazing price for essentially a new unit!

Yes, if the amp damages your Stax X9000 just send Topping a quick email. They'll certainly send you a cheque for 7350 Euros so you can buy a new headphone. /S Stax will do nothing to help you either as their warranty is void if you don't use their own amps. I've followed Birgir and Kevin for...

Hope this comes with 6 months free homeowners insurance…. 😂 On a serious note I hope this is a good performer and does well . It would be nice to have a good, cheap alternative to the Stax amps and the summit fi stat amps

Thanks 🙏

Can this be changed to 230v? Thanks!!

If you like the way it sounds , ok…. But I’m curious. Have you ever had a home demo or quiet listening session with an amplifier like the Headamp Blue Hawaii SE or the Mjolnir Audio KGSSHV Carbon? Im not including meets like Canjam as they’re way too noisy to critically evaluate anything.

And where did you get the idea that no electronics = better sound quality? Please point me to something other than Viva’s own marketing

6moons is a well established review website. That’s 100% the real product. When you get yours you can take a peek inside. Retail price has nothing to do with quality especially for audio gear. I’ve seen multiple product tear downs where it’s obvious that far more money has been spent on the...

Have you guys at least considered the idea of an affordable version of the HE-1? Like an HE-2? Everybody and their grandmother agrees that the HE-1 is the finest headphone listening experience available. If you guys ditched the over the top marble amp and sold a basic version of the headphone...

I’ve seen breakdowns of the internals of Lampizator DACs by competent and knowledgeable people. Not exactly high quality to put it politely. Impressive casework and marketing and even more impressive prices. Also if you believe that we need €20000 to €50000 TotalDac products for the fairly...

Fair enough. Which is the best amp and DAC combo you’ve heard with the Susvara? If I get a chance to try it , I will do so and report back. I think you’ll also agree that we’re all more influenced by price and aesthetics of a component than we’d like to admit. Chord Dave was the ultimate for...

Sure. So as a counterpoint I provide what I think is a more balanced take. I’m happy if it helps even one person.

1. Any reason why the RME is ''not a very good'' DAC? Any technical reasons other than ''what you heard''? Otherwise anybody can say anything about any component and it's just my word against yours. I think it is a very good DAC and reveals everything there is to hear in the music. 2. I never...

https://www.head-case.org/forums/topic/23692-viva-egoista-stx/

Please tell me why the RME is the bottleneck? When I compared the Utopia to the Susvara I used the RME in both cases. So I guess it should have negatively affected the Utopia's performance as well. Or does the Susvara have special DAC requirements that I'm unaware of?

I just want to be clear that the Susvara is politer than the Utopia but it is certainly not anywhere close to boring. I would say that most of the DCA cans and the Stax SR009S even with a top amp can sound boring with a lot of music. Even the HD800S. If I wasn´t comparing the Susvara and the...

Ok assuming this is true how do we compare the quality of power supplies between the top tier amps from the likes of Ferrum, Violectric, Headamp etc? It's so hard to get info which is not influenced by the following: marketing from the manufacturer, retail price and the how good the amp looks...

Is anybody here qualified to comment on quality of power, amp topology or tech? If yes I’m all ears. I still haven’t received an answer for why the Oor can’t get the best out of the Susvara other than something like 55Watts > 8 Watts which makes no sense even for an insensitive headphone...