[Wedge]

At the P/V or Leben level, its not a sounds better so much as a sounds different situation.  Funny though, lately I haven't been listening to LCD-2s, or the P/V, or Leben.  I am running in HD-800s on my WA-5 right now, before this I had been listening to HE-6 out of the WA-5 lately, running in some tubes.

 

[brasewel]

Exactly. The differences are small that it is difficult to distinguish them. I doubt we would be able to tell the difference between the P/V and my Apache in a blind test. We had to go back and forth a couple times to really ascertain what one amp did better over the other. Go to page 158 and 159.
 
Didn't know you got the HD800. Do you prefer it to the HE-6 or LCD-2? 

 

[Wedge]

I don't prefer it, but I do recognize it as a good headphone, at least as of right now, but I don't have much time on them.  They are much better headphone than the Ed.10, but I still prefer my HE-6 and LCD-2s.

 

[Skylab]

The Leben is an exceptionally fine amp for speakers. Been running is with some B&W N805's lately, and the sound is shockingly good. For people who want one amp to do both speaker and headphone duty, and don't need to have boatloads of power for speakers, the Leben is hard to beat.

I'm very excited that I am getting a review loaner of the RWA Audeze Edition Isabella. I really liked the original Isabella, and so I have high hopes for the new RWA amp.

 

[brasewel]

Leesure is getting the first production unit of the RWA Audeze Isabella and I hope to have an extensive listen at his place.

 

[Permagrin]

^ Speaking of which, I forgot, was there an official answer about whether or not there will be a version without a DAC section?

 

[brasewel]

 
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^ Speaking of which, I forgot, was there an official answer about whether or not there will be a version without a DAC section?

Not sure about that. I don't think there will be a version without the DAC but I'm just speculating.

 

[Permagrin]

^ Given the availability of high quality "affordable" DACs right now it makes sense to me.

 

[shamrock134]

Any other suggestions for a budget dac/amp for the LCD2? Ideally something easy to source in the UK.
 
Yoga, what do you make of the LCD2 / Nuforce HDP combo?

 

[zilch0md]

Hi KevinWolff,
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bi-amp'd headphones anyone? 

 

I've heard of this several times before, but I always have a hard time imagining how you would cable it all.  If you're starting with two SE amps, for example, using just one channel of each amp could improve the sound quality by creating a balanced configuration, but is there a way to use both channels in one SE amp to feed just one channel of your headphones (and both channels in the other SE amp to feed the other channel of your headphones)?  If so, wouldn't there be "electrical" problems associated with combining the channels?  What are the benefits?
 
Explanations, links to articles, pictures of cables, etc. would be very much appreciated...
 
Thanks!
 
Mike
 

 

[grokit]

Monoblocks would be one way to do it:
 

 
Obviously you would want to use balanced headphone cabling to hook them up like speakers.

 

[sphinxvc]

Quote:

I'm very excited that I am getting a review loaner of the RWA Audeze Edition Isabella. I really liked the original Isabella, and so I have high hopes for the new RWA amp.

Nice.
 

 

[Loevhagen]

Besides, no crosstalk in such an amp setup, just from the e.g. DAC. Hence, maybe a too technical sound.

 

[brasewel]

I really don't see the advantages of a bi-amped headphone over normal unlike speakers where it helps since you're offloading some of the load to the other amp since headphones don't demand as much juice. I could be wrong on this though.

 

[grokit]

Woo Audio is coming out with a new flagship monoblock headphone amp soon, should be around $8k so we'll see how that goes...