MacedonianHero (#1605) – „
As these are high impedance cans, I would go with tubes as they typically offer better voltage swings which typically synergize better. Or better still, bring both and let us know your thoughts!“
This is true in case when you have „chipper“ solid amps. When you insert T1 to very serious solid amp, the problem with voltage swings is past. For exmaple, I practiced with RPX-300, (and head-fi friend with RP 010B) and the reproduction was excellent. Try listen T1 with amps like ZAMA HPA-1 or spoken Rudistor’s.
Tyll Hertsens (#1616),
kool bubba ice (#1617) – This is the point of view where people can accept your oppinion and „hate“ you. The HD 800 I hardly use for projects, because they present the sound very analytically, neutral, without colourings, they are „clinical“. For this purpose, they are fantastic, but for audiophile listening you can say dry. But T1 are different, they are more vivacious, very musical, with better bass impact etc etc. It depends what you expect from these two models. But in other words, these two models very depend on used audio devices and re-cabling (balanced HD 800).
Seamaster (#1622) – Stefan Audio produces excellent headphone cables, it is great that they started to produce the cable for T1 too.
SteveM324 (#1630) – Stefan Audio does regular prices, so there is good quality from re-cabling to go to second or third level in my „classification“. So
David.M (#1632) – This answer was said million times and million times other and other people will ask. Re-cabling depends on a lot of variables and you need understand what you want to obtain, how is changed basic characteristics after recabling, technical parameters etc. These two cables are ideal for first to second level in my „classification“. So entry to standard audio devices. The stock cable with T1 is serious quality for this two classes, but the recabling is powerful when you want to „adapt“ the sound reproduction to be more familiar for you, sound tunning, or for tuning for your concrete audio chain.
