I've often wondered about that, too. I'm not opposed to replacing it myself, but I don't want to have the same issue. Is there a superior replacement that others have been using?

I have not owned a Jotunheim, but as you have admitted, your amp is not a bottleneck. I suspect that playing with DAC's to get different sound (not necessarily better as this is a matter of preference) before changing your amplification.

If you want to find great information on the best power supplies head over to badcaps.net where this is discussed at length. I have never heard anyone mention the ripple handling of a power supply. But the ripple handling of the capacitors in the supply is definitely important. The brand and...

Wow, that's an awesome listening rig! If you ever decide to dive into another PSU then manufacturers such as Fortron (FSP), Seasonic, Sparkle and even server supplies such as Supermicro can be a tremendous upgrade.

I have no idea. I suppose there is no need. If the rig sounds great then the swapping of parts would be more academic. But then again audio is always trial and error. I have reached points where I couldn't imagine things sounding better, but then I would experiment and *boom* an increase in...

The gains yielded could be due to your power supply being a weak link. On another forum it was regarded as a poor quality supply, and the user even had a link to a site which did a thorough examination of said supply, but unfortunately the link has since become defunct: It's a relabeled 500W...

It's great to hear these products are working for you cdacosta! Can give us a rundown on your PC's parts list? What power supply and motherboard are you using?

Just acquired a pair of... well, it says on the cup "K 800 C," which ill bet refers to the dual 3.5mm plugs for use with a computer rather than the dual 1/4" phono plugs i see on the K 800... I think I've even seen one with an XLR connector, but it may have been modded. My pair says, "2 x 100...

Power distribution aside, there is Apple and their Thunderbolt connector, then there is everyone else: console market, PC market, Android Market, etc. and on and on who all confirm to USB-C. So who should they cater to? Not Apple, who decides it needs something different. While Intel has...

Well, I rip all my CD's to my HDD so everything passes through to the same DAC and headphone amplifier. I'll try a different set of cans and report back.

I hope you guys can chime in on this issue I am having. I'm curious if my hearing is damaged... well, I think it's highly likely that my hearing is damaged in some way considering my entire working life has revolved primarily around restoring cars in a bodyshop, while disregarding hearing...

Did you ever get these babies open? I'm very curious about these headphones because they only sound good for very specific genres, such as old-school Bass tracks, but for most anything from rock, metal to country, they have to be heavily EQ'd. However, after they are EQ'd they have excellent...

I have a different problem, guys n gals. I've used a pair of MDR-V700's since they were first released, which is close to two decades if my surmise is correct. The swivel point is now cracked. I baby my equipment, but a few spills from 24" off the ground due to the kids being where they...

Can you recall what source and amplification you had behind the SE-A1000's?

I'm thankful for people like you because then people like me, who have stuck with the same set of cans for 20+ years can update the equipment behind them for less money. 😁 I am only now looking to update to a set of different headphones because the swivel area of my MDR-V700's have begun to...

Which is the type that loses its magnetism over time? I did shy away from a very obscure, but awesome looking set of headphones some months ago because I read that type of headphone loses its magnetism or some such thing over time and will be very quiet. All the seller said in the Craigslist...

So over the course of time I did upgrade the electrolytics in the signal path to films. I originally, had ended up with only two of the WIMA radial 1.0uF films I ordered so I replaced the electrolytics between the DAC IC and the output OpAmp figuring that was the most important stage. The...

Yes, but if you don't post the rig then people will have no basis for comparison, and everything will remain pure tial and error. And what I'm most worried about is the fact that we still have a lot of inexperienced listeners who review otherwise respectable headphones by plugging them into...

I complain that people aren't posting their test rigs, then a swath of people jump in here and don't list their test rigs. ?_?

This thread seems full of mostly asinine opinions. While there are a few people who mention the rig used in combination with a given pair of headphones, most seem to throw an opinion out there without listing the rig. Perhaps, there are more people out there who don't realize the influence...

Yamaha YBA-11? Only downside is it doesn't auto-reconnect, though it does not power off.

I would go with an amplifier proper, such as the Magni 3 rather than the Fulla because I have found through experience that my Modi 2 Uber is a bottleneck in as much as I have swapped other DAC's behind the Magni 3 and got better sound (for my hearing and hardware, anyway) than the Modi 2. Even...