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sheldaze I did not dive into hd800s, what surprises me is your hek and your hugo, which I prepare to get them. Driven by Moon, he1000 is full mouth of detail and emotionally mesmerizing. Compared with HD800, the hek sound image is more concentrated while hd800 is comparatively spreading out. And in terms of details, hek granulates the detail to make it more clear, so-called "objectivise" the detail; while the hd800 presents these detail smoothly and analytically, which I feel less emotional. All in all, I feel Hek is more emotional and energetic while it has all the essential things that hd800 has. What a headphone! (I am so sorry I have to leave earlier, and I am really regretful that I do not have a chance to compare he1000 with stax headphone, I really would like to listen to your guys' impression on this comparison )
HUGO is another surprise but it is as expected, it is so famous that I am craving for listening to it for a very long time. I had a lot of dap devices: hm901, aune m1, musiland 08mp etc. But among them all, hugo has the best portable dac . It is so detailed. The treble is bright, sharper, faster and the transient response is airy faster than all other daps. I had a benchmark dac and a mytek 192 and a benchmark dac2. Upon my impression on hugo, the dac is matching level of dac1 and mytek 192, but not dac2. Mytek 192 might be a little bit better, which has comparatively a better sound-stage and better control but overall it is less emotional. In term of the amp in hugo, it is not as good as 08mp. It has less control and it makes the sound stage of my hd800 smaller.
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sheldaze Right now I am really interested in hugo TT, I want to set up a hiend system for my hd800. For dac, did you compare hugo TT with hugo? Or do you have any recommendation for hi-end hd800 system? My watch list for amp: ecba DNA 2a3; and for dac; hugo TT,
Metrum Acoustics Pavane. Any impression on these? Look forward to see anyone's opinion on these.