[alota]

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The LCD-2 should pair very well with the Beta since it's sounds great off solid state. You should look in the Cavelli EHHA as well as a DIY amp.

i´ve said many times but no one is interested.
i tried my lcd-2 with two balanced amplifiers: my beta-22 and another that i´ve sold.
with the sold amplifier the lcd-2 sound without energy and with a closed sound.
with the beta is the most incredible tha i´ve ever triedure energy, pure emotion.
i don´t believe that the lcd-2 play with all amplifiers.
many people say that the lcd-2  is easy to drive but I think it's a hard headphone like the he-6
aldo
 

 

[Hero Kid]

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[...] I'm looking for what would be the best DIY amp for them. [...]

Try this thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/495631/amp-recommendations-for-audeze-lcd-2

 

[n3rdling]

B22 and dynahi are probably the two best amps there are for the lcd2

 

[c12mech]

Beta 22 is my first choice and is what I am going to build no matter what.  I'm thinking it would be worth the extra money to make it balanced.  When I finish the dac I'm working on it will be balanced output.  If I do it the way I want I should not need to upgrade for a very long time.

 

[goofyvic]

i don´t believe that the lcd-2 play with all amplifiers.
many people say that the lcd-2  is easy to drive but I think it's a hard headphone like the he-6
aldo
 

Everyone's mileage is different. I find the LCD2 sounds excellent with CEntrance DACmini while others feels that LCD2 sounds great with Stepdance, Just Audio etc. Different taste, different expectations and different ears.

 

[K3cT]

Beta22 sounds awesome with the LCD2. This thing is efficient to drive but it's a bit finicky, feed it with the wrong amplifier and it will sound plodding and closed-in.

 

[alota]

yes this is the true but my speech was different.
i think that some parameters must be respected because audeze sound the best of their possibilities
aldo
 
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i don´t believe that the lcd-2 play with all amplifiers.  
many people say that the lcd-2  is easy to drive but I think it's a hard headphone like the he-6
aldo
 

Everyone's mileage is different. I find the LCD2 sounds excellent with CEntrance DACmini while others feels that LCD2 sounds great with Stepdance, Just Audio etc. Different taste, different expectations and different ears.

 

 

[Syan25]

What's the current price on these?

 

[Canadian411]

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The left driver for my LCD-2's just failed Gentle use, hung on headphone stand, noticed a severe volume imbalance at first, thought it was a cable half plugged, then the left driver straight up failed. Emailed Audez'e and hopefully this will get handled.

My lcd2 left driver failed too, and i've been taking care of this baby carefully as well.
Mine is less than a month old, maybe 30+ hours of usage...
 
Just got an email from Alex and he is going to contact me today, hope will get replaced soon.

 

[brasewel]

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i´ve said many times but no one is interested.
i tried my lcd-2 with two balanced amplifiers: my beta-22 and another that i´ve sold.
with the sold amplifier the lcd-2 sound without energy and with a closed sound.
with the beta is the most incredible tha i´ve ever triedure energy, pure emotion.
i don´t believe that the lcd-2 play with all amplifiers.
many people say that the lcd-2  is easy to drive but I think it's a hard headphone like the he-6
aldo
 

I thought they sounded good from most of the amps I had them paired with. They are extremely transparent headphones that makes it easy to differentiate the differences between rigs. I thought the Lyr with stock tubes was the only amp where they sounded like crap.
 

 

[grokit]

 
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I thought the Lyr with stock tubes was the only amp where they sounded like crap.

It was a bad combo with Amperex gold-pin 6922s as well.

 

[MrScary]

 

It was a bad combo with Amperex gold-pin 6922s as well.

you had two nasty sets of tubes there for the Lyr meets the LCD-2

 

[ianmedium]

Wonderful! FedEx have delivered my replacement LCD's to my friends box in WA, not just got to wait for him to go down this week and pick them up!

 

[grokit]

 
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It was a bad combo with Amperex gold-pin 6922s as well.

you had two nasty sets of tubes there for the Lyr meets the LCD-2

Yeah that's the ticket, it must have been the tubes 

 

[salavat]

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Beta22 sounds awesome with the LCD2. This thing is efficient to drive but it's a bit finicky, feed it with the wrong amplifier and it will sound plodding and closed-in.

+1. Particularly with Balanced Beta 22.