Hello Fellow HE'6 ers!!
Last night I took delivery of an absolutely MINT Marantz PM500 to drive my HE'6 headphones at the speaker taps... The results were truly impressive... For only $150 bucks I have a piece of headphone equipment that I'm sure would dwarfs anything that I have heard to date in the headamp world. Since this beautiful machine has fast-twitch "led" meters to show wattage consumption, now I KNOW why.. I only played for apx 1 hour and ran thru some of my favorites (Anita Baker, Jill Scott, Marvin Gaye) at decent volumes (ok loud, prob 100 db). What amazed me was the fact this headphone PEGGED 130w (@4 ohm) meter on several tracks and I know the HE'6 could have handed more. I have pics to prove! While I couldn't get a pic during an actual, instantaneous PEG, I was able to get several pics of meters on their way back from a 130w excursion!! Mind you this headphone sounded PHENOMENAL during the entire session. -Sounds like a freakin SPEAKER!! -Clear as a bell, NO distortion could be heard upstairs in my house... I will work on posting pick later today, but I was actually skeptical about 100+ watt "ghost" stories about HE6 I read a while back until I saw for myself. I'm gonna be sure and get a second pair because I still don't think a better headphone exists today..