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I'm just saying that you don't necessarily have to get a speaker amp to make the HE-6 shine; for many, it really is overkill. Of course the HE-6 are power hungry, and speaker amps do drive them easier than almost all head amps; but I don't want to discourage people in the community from getting HE-6 because they want to use a headphone amp. I also heard the best out of these headphones on speaker amps, but I would not want a beast of an amp to drive my headphones and not have speakers...
That there my friend would be highly debatable and in some cases your right. However, "shine" to me means it reaches it's fullest potential or close to it. The BHA-1 just could not get it there
IMO. I'm a former BHA-1 owner. I can't speak on the Mojo. Now the BHA-1 is a killer amp with the LCD-2.2s I mean one of the best I heard it with. However, I
sold the BHA-1 because my βeta-22 outperformed it with the HE-6 and all other headphones except the LCD-2.2s.
IMO my βeta-22 is just a more all round amp than the BHA-1. Plus the new GS-X v2 is on it's way.
To me the BHA-1 is a tad bit on the bright side compared to the βeta-22, the beta having a slight coloration that works well for enjoyable listing with the majority of my headphones.
Power wise there was no comparison. My βeta-22 has dual sigma 22 power supplies with nice sized dual transformers in a separate enclosure. The BHA-1 to my knowledge has one PSU and one transformer. This showed as the BHA-1 had less headroom then my βeta-22 and also started to struggle with more complicated tracks before the βeta-22 did.
The problem with comparing amps to DIY βeta-22s is there are about 3 different configuration of βeta-22s (2 channel, 3 channel and 4 channel). This matters because of the different power ratings each one has.
Anyway, both fail short of
"ALL THE SPEAKER AMPS" we tried the HE-6s with. Granted we had lots of powerful amps to play with at the time and the quality of the amps was I would say were good. Good being better than some and not as good most. Again we had: βeta-24, UPA-1 mono blocks, UPA-2 and Rotel RMB-100 mono blocks. Then we went on to try lower powered amps but much higher quality, again the difference showed putting a gap between the first set of speaker amps and the second set of speaker amps.
I'm just saying.. all of the speaker amps we tried was a few levels above of all the headphone amps we tried. No contest.
There are a few people on here (MikeK200 and elwappo) who has the mini X and the Mojo both (mike has both - elwappo owns the mini X and heard the Mojo - I think). They both preferred the mini X with the HE-6 over the Mojo.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here.
It's perfectly fine if you want to settle on a headphone amp for the HE-6 - nothing wrong with that at all. However, let it be known there are much better options out there. As reported by others even the mini X and Trends amps are subjectively better at a lower cost.