Lede - Vesper Audio is the only place I have found for good quality custom ear pads on my more esoteric headphones. When I don't want to gamble on eBay and can wait through the process, I trust and highly “recommend” Vesper. Pro: - Very good quality work. - Very good materials. - They are...

Let’s say I’m not disappointed: It’s one Hel of a surprise. Thanks for turning me onto it. It really is a perfect bed stand amp. It also is a better match, for my ears, with your E2 than the LP. But that caveat (my ears) is growing larger with every passing year.

Wow. That’s quite a deal. Mojo is great. Some desktop are better, many are not as good. I’d be happy with the Chord. (Especially for what you’re paying. Yikes!) Absolute doesn’t exist. What sounds great to you is achievable, though.

I received a new pair of Aeon 2 Open (A2O) late last week and burn-in is in progress. Avoiding detailed impressions, but here is my 20-hour take with a Schiit Hel and my ears - A very happy paring. Listening to La Nozze di Figaro ( Amazon Music link ) almost had me jumping out of my skin a...

Well said! I wouldn’t kick a pair of ZMF out of my balanced connector but I do have a hard time talking myself into spending 6x for pretty wood.

One hits a wall of diminishing returns after the HD 58X: My disappointment has been every expensive headphone I bought after. Some have sounded better, none >$1000 better.

I owe you more donuts than I could ever hope to get fresh from Dunkin. Next up: correlation, coincidence, or cause. [edit: or ear wax]

@DowdyPrime I received my LP new from Monoprice in the first week of June; we could certainly be sharing bits from the bin. I’m keen to know what you find.

I’m becoming loath spotlighting my issue b/c it casts shade on two great pieces of gear. Some shopper will browse the inter-threads and think the E2 or LP is a bad gamble. I’m pretty sure I screwed myself with the warranty. (Replaced the caps) For me, it isn’t a puzzle. The LP wasn’t designed...

I would certainly not take it as representative. My experience is an outlier; a dot outside the main distribution with this. It never sounds awful at most listening levels. I’m still A/Bing to see if its earwax, but every time the music gets lively things seem to get crowded with the E2+LP.

Hey Wes, I’ve used the stock Electro-Harmonic, Gold Pin JJ, and 1974 NOS 6N23Ps. To be clear, it isn’t the E2 or the LP but both together. I’ve found others in the wild that note some LP units are not happy with low impedance cans, I guess the parts bin gods were not in my favor. The E2s are...

I don’t have an answer for this question so I was giving it a pass; however, I think one will be delighted if they stay within the 33-300 ohms published by Monoprice. (Most folk I’ve heard from like the LP even outside of that range) Lower impedance cans may distort on dynamic passages, ( I...

I'm almost loath to put this out on forum but... *sigh*... here goes. The mod didn't change my E2 and LP issue: I still get distortion at, what in my opinion are, reasonable listing levels on the LP after the cap changed. The LP sounds great with my Dropennheisers 58X and the E2s are lovely on...

I’d love two... but I’d love to stay married.

Whoa. You know the LP is tube, right? That’s high praise from a SS guy. Glad you enjoy it, and thank you for building mine.

@mrspeakers, you were right about the perfs. I don't know why, seems like shamanism, but it certainly kicks up imaging and stage a rung. Or two. I have not had better cans on my head. As for the rest of my criteria; for me, the E2 is now much more engaging across the range. With the perfs are...

Hard lesson: keep my big mouth shut.

My E2s are back from DCA with new drivers. I have not achieved the magic 100-hours of burn in but I am not finding the distortion I mentioned in my impression of the Ether 2 driven by the LP. However, I committed the cardinal error (not THAT Cardinal error) of changing two variables at the same...

I just happen to have a MCTH sitting...right...here. (And a Jot, and a Maxed Out Headroom...)

Well, there was a hint of harshness from my wife when I said I wanted to spend $150 on my 4th new HP amp. Just a bit.

I can hear Jaacqueline du Pre talking to her cello. Priceless.

One of the things that jumps out at me is some of my favorite albums had a crew of a producer addicted to overdrive and a drunk engineer on the mixer.

I am tempted to buy another, also. However, I’d like to leave it stock for awhile to compare and marvel. Such a little thing; such a noticeable improvement. A thing of joy.

Making it hard to get audio mixing done while spending hours marveling at $700 (total) for the LP plus caps.