I run mine HE-6SE with WHAMMY, a DIY amplifier from diyaudiostore.com
Sounds magnificent.
Sounds magnificent.
Amps that can drive the HiFiMan HE-6 planar headphones
screwdriver
Headphoneus Supremus
What op amp is your whammy?
I'm running either Muzg Audio for balanced sound, or Staccato Audio for more warmth and tube like qualities. Both strongly recommended.
Please refer to my review and ask if you have any further questions
https://www.ear-fidelity.com/whammy-review/
screwdriver
Headphoneus Supremus
I have the op627 on one build and sparkosnon another , it's sound better with the opa 627
The Whammy is a super inexpensive headphone I have one with Burson V6 fitted. I've not tried the HE-SE but do have the HE-6 which the Whammy can't drive sure you can listen with it but the HE-6 just comes alive with more power.
Fwiw build the Pass ACA 6W class A power amp use your Whammy as the pre amp for the ACA my HE-6 sounded really nice powered by the ACA.
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fejnomit
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I found the sweetspot for the HE-6s is a 50W speaker amp pushing 8ohms. That translates roughly into 8W at the 50ohm rating of the headphones. I used a Sugden integrated amp that had exactly those specs and it was phenomenal. Dead silent and brought the HE-6s to life perfectly.
Oh, that's interesting. What bias did you end up using? Love the idea oh using ACA to run them. It probably sounds amazing.
I've heard about that with Susvaras, but I can see the appeal for HE-6/SE
It was a about 8 years ago now I built two one stock 19V supply and one with a 24V pover supply sorry but can't rember the bias of each. I've had my he6 around 8 or 9 years tried loads of different amps the ACA worked really well imo.
As a project you can just buy the ACA PCB and use second hand heat sinks off of eBay you can build one pretty inexpensively under $100 I would guess, attach the heat sinks to some cut down chopping boards etc and you have a nice sounding amp that will drive difficult cans as well as sensitive speakers.
Just rember never to turn a speaker amp on or off or even switch between inputs with the headphones connected just to be safe.
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On speaker amps, the ones I was happiest with were Bryston 2B (about $400-500 used, can also be found as a B60 integrated), Benchmark AHB2 (I had these as monoblocks because I'm stupid like that), and SPL s800 (my current amp).
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Monoblocks work great! Not stupid at all!
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We're all a little mad here
There was this one time I used an actual kilowatt amp... it was just ok lol.
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Headphoneus Supremus
And the nelson pass F1j is 10 watts per chennel and is the best amp for a long while to drive the he6
I wish there was a way to grab those power JFETs. Any power JFETs really.
Well, that looks reasonable:
https://www.mouser.pl/ProductDetail/Qorvo-UnitedSiC/UJ4C075060K3S?qs=hd1VzrDQEGjVfGB6b9i7uA==
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I owned this f1j with a he6 , the sound is so full and different and it has slam in there.
fejnomit
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In your opinion, I think you forgot to say
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