Nick Dangerous
Mr. Tuberrific
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17 straight hours. I'm headed to bed.
Quick thoughts:
#1 - TwinHead and RKV get top honors in tube amp domain. RKV has the edge with bass, TwinHead has all-around tickle your spine wonderfulness. It's a tie. Gotta try 'em both. Tube rollers will want the TwinHead since it uses E88CC and 2A3 tubes. Pop a pair of meshplate 2A3's and vintage Amperexes in there and your sanity would be forever lost.
#2 - Headroom Max and Sudgen Headmaster take top honors in solid-state amps. I prefer the Max due to its crossfeed F/X and wonderful bass. It was a tough call. Sudgen needs more bass, dammit!
#3 - Bolder tweaked ART DI/O is awesome! Channel Islands Audio DAC comes in a reasonably close second. Despite this, it should be considered. The VDA-1 has great features like easy auto external sync lock and both coax and optical inputs. The blue LED looks cool, too.
#4 - Grado RS-1 is better than the metallic sounding SR-325. Hmmmm... wood housing vs. aluminum housing, go figure. Both rock with the Melos SHA-1 and Mapletree Ear+.
#5 - Sony R10 is the world's best dynamic headphone... but not by a mile. Maybe by a hundred yards or so. Zelkova wood be damned, the asking price is just too high. Should be $950, new, tops.
#6 - Oris. Scary good. Change of pants required. Mozart is alive and in my living room. Hi Wolfgang, how are you? Want a Coke?
Mozart likes Coca-cola.
Good night! Edwin really went the distance tonight. He was here for at least 14 hours!
Quick thoughts:
#1 - TwinHead and RKV get top honors in tube amp domain. RKV has the edge with bass, TwinHead has all-around tickle your spine wonderfulness. It's a tie. Gotta try 'em both. Tube rollers will want the TwinHead since it uses E88CC and 2A3 tubes. Pop a pair of meshplate 2A3's and vintage Amperexes in there and your sanity would be forever lost.
#2 - Headroom Max and Sudgen Headmaster take top honors in solid-state amps. I prefer the Max due to its crossfeed F/X and wonderful bass. It was a tough call. Sudgen needs more bass, dammit!
#3 - Bolder tweaked ART DI/O is awesome! Channel Islands Audio DAC comes in a reasonably close second. Despite this, it should be considered. The VDA-1 has great features like easy auto external sync lock and both coax and optical inputs. The blue LED looks cool, too.
#4 - Grado RS-1 is better than the metallic sounding SR-325. Hmmmm... wood housing vs. aluminum housing, go figure. Both rock with the Melos SHA-1 and Mapletree Ear+.
#5 - Sony R10 is the world's best dynamic headphone... but not by a mile. Maybe by a hundred yards or so. Zelkova wood be damned, the asking price is just too high. Should be $950, new, tops.
#6 - Oris. Scary good. Change of pants required. Mozart is alive and in my living room. Hi Wolfgang, how are you? Want a Coke?
Mozart likes Coca-cola.
Good night! Edwin really went the distance tonight. He was here for at least 14 hours!
