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Headphoneus Supremus
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I am awaiting Glenn's reply with anticipation whilst eating popcorn.
ZMF Eikon, Atticus and LCD-2f sound great on the GOTL. The added bass is infectious but HD800 on the GOTL is more my kind of tone. It's super clear, more airy and instruments separation is first class.
I've 2 persons over at my place to listen to my head-fi. My speaker designer, John Reilly, prefers the Audeze LCD-2f. That's a surprise to me and I can assure you he has the best ears for sound.
2nd guy is an audiophile who loves good 2 channels stereo system. He was quite shocked by the clarity from HD800 on GOTL and the HD800 is his favourite too of my 4 headphones.
The best tube is the one that sounds the best in your amp (your circuit) and your system, to you.And it has been a long time since I listened to the 6SN7W, the NU 6F8G or the TS-RPBG so my memories are somewhat foggy.... For the time being, I remain charmed and captivated by the 27.
That is fin to do if the 2 headphones are highish impedance the combined lower impedance might
even come down to the 32 ohm output impedance of the amp.
As long as one is not much louder then the other with different phones.
SQ wise the EL3N is close not as much power of course but at $20 a tube the EL3N is the better choice.
... I was going to get rid of my 300B amp due to unreliable 300Bs sick of them burning out. And will not pay the price of the TAKs.
...Was going to build myself a SE EL34 amp with four paralleled EL34s per Channel for 21 watts. Now I might forgo building that. Had no problems with my WE300B reissues but sold them when I was told by my doctor that I only had 18 months to live. That was 5 years ago and am kicking my ass for selling them now.
The price of these WEs are not bad and can't wait to get a pair. I mostly use the 300B amp for driving speakers and they are on every day. They are different from your 300B as they use a #10 globe driver tube. I had these amps for 10 years and have the original globe 10s in them and went through lost count of burned out 300Bs. Recently lost a KR globe 300B. Looked nice next to the globe 10 it was about a year old. Now have cheep Chinese 300Bs in there. Until the new WEs come out was going to give up on 300Bs after this KR failure.
I'm reading that as a small win for the 300B on SQ. I'm totally unbiased, of courseI would say you are reading it correctly
I let my wife set the volume as my normal listening level is higher than hers.
She had HD800 dynamic 300 ohm
I had ZMF Ori planar 50 ohm, I believe
A combined total of 43 ohms (nominal) using simple Ohms Law.
Volume pot at about 10 O'clock....I could have moved the pot up a little for my liking...but still very nice.
Probably even better with
ZMF Ori 50 Ohm
Grado RS1 32 Ohm
A combined total of 19 ohms (nominal) using simple Ohms Law.
HD800 300 Ohm
ZMF Atticus 300 Ohm
A combined total of 150 ohms (nominal) using simple Ohms Law.
Of course the headphones themselves will interact somewhat with each other as well to change the overall impedance at perspective frequencies.
Think we will try this tonight.
Cheap is good.
Every time I put the HD800 on, even if it has been for some time since I listened to it.
The first thing that pops in my head is just how damn good the headphone is, especially through the whole spectrum.
The lower impedance phone should have been louder if the efficiency is the same.
Burning in a OTL using Svetlana 6H13 driven by a 1633. These cheep output tubes sound good
And lower noise then any of the 6AS7s I have. Have to get more of these they can't be beat for the price.