Kevin Brown
1000+ Head-Fier
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This was a fantastic event put on by a great guy: Christian.
My quick impressions are:
K1000's: wow.
I was a little too much in awe of all the nice equipment to do much critical listening, but I'll save that for the next one.
Next time, I need to bring a mobile amp and a minijack to RCA splitter. It's one thing to listen to other people's headphones with their sources and their music, but I'd prefer to do it with music that I'm familiar with for the best comparisons to my gear. I had my own source (Sansa Fuze), but for a lot of the headphones I wanted to really listen to, it was underpowered.
Love the Valhalla and it's price point. But the Lyr is a better match for low impedance Grados in terms of volume output. Maybe I can wait for a used/demo/B-stock unit sometime.
One person mentioned this in the other thread, and I'll repeat it here: one cool thing about a listening event like this, is for all the awesome gear there, it makes me feel really good about the rigs that I have set up at work and at home for myself.
And I'm keeping an eye out for Doc B's Grado specific tube amp/kit ...
My quick impressions are:
K1000's: wow.
I was a little too much in awe of all the nice equipment to do much critical listening, but I'll save that for the next one.
Next time, I need to bring a mobile amp and a minijack to RCA splitter. It's one thing to listen to other people's headphones with their sources and their music, but I'd prefer to do it with music that I'm familiar with for the best comparisons to my gear. I had my own source (Sansa Fuze), but for a lot of the headphones I wanted to really listen to, it was underpowered.
Love the Valhalla and it's price point. But the Lyr is a better match for low impedance Grados in terms of volume output. Maybe I can wait for a used/demo/B-stock unit sometime.
One person mentioned this in the other thread, and I'll repeat it here: one cool thing about a listening event like this, is for all the awesome gear there, it makes me feel really good about the rigs that I have set up at work and at home for myself.
And I'm keeping an eye out for Doc B's Grado specific tube amp/kit ...