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Amps that can drive the HiFiMan HE-6 planar headphones
Jul 16, 2012 at 9:58 PM Post #513 of 6,048
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souprknowva said:
o sorry, hadnt thought to go back to see if youd added anything -_- thanks for the impressions! seems to be a solid amp for very little money for the HE-6
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I actually added the details after you posted asking for impressions 
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,  I posted again so you would see the update 
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I'm definitely keeping it. Fantastic little amp. Even with speakers, it really sounds amazing! 
 
Jul 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM Post #514 of 6,048
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elwappo99 said:
 
I actually added the details after you posted asking for impressions 
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,  I posted again so you would see the update 
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I'm definitely keeping it. Fantastic little amp. Even with speakers, it really sounds amazing! 
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any quick words on how it compares to the amps you already had? i see in your profile you have a NFB10 and a LD MKVI+
 
Jul 16, 2012 at 10:51 PM Post #515 of 6,048
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souprknowva said:
 
any quick words on how it compares to the amps you already had? i see in your profile you have a NFB10 and a LD MKVI+
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Definitely better than the pioneer SX-990 I have. Much more power and clarity than the NFB-10. MKVI+ should be a fair match up for it. The MKVI+ has a much warmer presentation, but this a-100 has a much more open soundstage and clearer bass. 
 
Jul 17, 2012 at 4:04 PM Post #516 of 6,048
I've tried many amps with the HE-6 including a Eddie Current Balancing Act, Conrad Johnson Premier 11a Amp, Headroom Portable Desktop Amp, Nakamichi TA-4A Receiver, Threshold S/200 Amp and Emotiva XDA-2 Amp. My favorite 2 amps are a Pioneer M-22 that I had rebuilt by Amplifier Surgery and a Atma-Sphere S-30 MK II OTL tube amp. I use a HiFiMan HE 4-pin XLR adapter on the Pioneer and a Moon Audio speaker to 4-pin XLR adapter on the Atma-Sphere. Both of these drive the HE-6 beautifully with complementary sound signatures. Surprisingly the Atma-Sphere with all of the tubes runs cooler than the Class A Pioneer. A close second place amp is a rebuilt Pioneer A-27 Integrated that has a headphone jack tied directly to the speaker outputs. I've also kinda liked a Audio Research V70 tube amp hooked up to a ASL UHC signature headphone adapter but while the amp drove the HE-6 well I thought it was a little too lush in the midrange so I don't really use it for the HE-6.
 
I agree with all here that a quality amp drives the HE-6 best off the speaker taps. I no longer am interested in buying or even trying headphone amps now that I've been using power amplifiers with the an adapter.
 
Jul 18, 2012 at 3:01 AM Post #517 of 6,048
Jul 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM Post #518 of 6,048
So after reading through well over half (the second half) of the HE-6 thread, I remembered something from my listening with the HE-6 comparing the B24 and the Dark Star. The pair of HE-6s that i listened to on the Dark Star I'm pretty sure were stock, whereas the pair of HE-6s that i listened to the B24 with, were hardwired. So I'm wondering if maybe getting rid of the SMC connector in the headphone is maybe what caused the major differences that i heard between the two amps, and that it wasn't the amps at all. I don't want to say either way though, as I couldn't be sure till I had another chance like that to compare them
 
Jul 19, 2012 at 5:23 PM Post #519 of 6,048
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souprknowva said:
So after reading through well over half (the second half) of the HE-6 thread, I remembered something from my listening with the HE-6 comparing the B24 and the Dark Star. The pair of HE-6s that i listened to on the Dark Star I'm pretty sure were stock, whereas the pair of HE-6s that i listened to the B24 with, were hardwired. So I'm wondering if maybe getting rid of the SMC connector in the headphone is maybe what caused the major differences that i heard between the two amps, and that it wasn't the amps at all. I don't want to say either way though, as I couldn't be sure till I had another chance like that to compare them
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How much of a difference would that really make?
 
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