[Shane D]

I am not a huge Beatles fan, but having said that, I do have a lot of their music.
By the time they broke up I was ten years old. But they were constantly playing on the radio in my younger years.

They released a re-mastered version of their greatest hits albums, the Red and the Blue. I own the Blue and parts of the Red, which I thought always sounded crappy.
Today I bought the new Red double album and a few bonus songs. With band and solo material, my "Beatles" playlist is 88 songs and runs four hours and fifty six minutes.

I brought out my Ambrosia's and made it Beatles day!

 

[alekc]

I don't have a Utopia to say for that. HM1 is an amp that is very fast, incisive, and has incredible control over headphones drivers.

Due to the control I have found the bass on some headphones really shine on it such as the Atrium Closed/ Unfortunately while Clear on HM1 does certainly sound good I think it benefits from a tube amp or a warmer amp more. HM1 usually adds an extra "sizzle"/sparkle to a headphone and that doesn't always help with the Clears already pretty hot treble. HM1 is a very "neutral" sounding amp. I do think it sounds better on HM1 than a few other more neutral amps I have heard but I wouldn't call it super significantly better.

My HD800s for example benefits from the HM1 considerably. HD800s bass is more dynamic, fast and full. Its treble is extra great on HM1 minus that its treble stays fatiguing. But overall the HD800s scales to be very much a summit fi headphone that competes in many ways with the flagship stuff. Where as Clear technicalities gets better but I would still call it having the sound of a $1500 range HP. Vs say HD800s going to say $3-$4k ish.

@unfitstew thank you for all the details. This makes me really wonder about HM1 one day. I'm not so curious about Utopias rather more focus on Stellias right now.

So far I'm so happy with HEADA and Envy that I do not feel like spending this amount of money on another amp but I can imagine it could be well worth it Enjoy and congrats on great purchase

 

[csch92]

meze 109 pro. after almost 25 years this album still slaps.
and i have been a fan of this band for 16 years

 

[Lindholdt]

Late night guitar

Wiim, SMSL, V200, HEKS.

 

[Davidzak64]

Jar Of Flies.. Alice In Chains
HD650 ( cc UK mod ) < Darkvoice THA332< Loxjie D30 < Amazon Music HD.

 

[mrjayviper]

Denon 7Ks

 

[pataburd]

Focal Clear OG . . . <--SMSL SP400 . . . <--SMSL D400EX . . . <--Lenovo G50|Spotify:

[I used to own this recording on CD . . . ]

 

[Luckyleo]

Roon/Qobuz=>ipad mini=>modi=>Vali 2++=>DT880 (600 ohm)

 

[Elegiac]

On the Koss KPH40.

 

[rids57]

JRiver MC > SMSL SU9 > Schiit Asgard 3 > Grado SR325x

Blackout (1982) by Scorpions - Second night of my Scorps playthrough and I'm up to Blackout, their 8th studio album, so Mathias Jabs has made himself quite at home as their lead (mostly) guitarist. It's a strong album, much better than Animal Magnetism but not as good as Lovedrive and finishes up with one of their signature ballads, When The Smoke Is Going Down with lead guitar from Rudolf Schenker. The Grados sound really good with this one, they sounded somewhat shouty on Animal Magnetism, I don't think it was a good recording. Klaus Meine had to have surgery on his vocal cords before recording this album and it was unknown whether he would be able to record it, so the demos were recorded using Don Dokken who was unknown at the time. Meine was able to record eventually and Dokken is credited with backing vocals. Next I move onto one of my favourites, Love At First Sting.

 

[alekc]

Tidal > ifi micro iDSD Signature (bit-perfect filter, normal power mode, IEMatch off) > Audeze MM-500

One of the greatest late grunge era albums. All drawbacks and limitation of both micro iDSD (except poor volume control) and MM-500 are actually a huge advantage on such albums, even if they are a more peaceful in sound than lets say In Utero by Nirvana or some of early records from bands like Mudhoney (Superfuzz bigmuff comes to my mind immediately) or earlier posted by my Gruntrack album.

Coming back to that particular album listen on this setup: the attack of percussion in chorus from "I'm above" track is incredible, while MM-500 provide speed, ifi Burr-Brown implementation with its hint of warmth and Audeze a bit darker, meaty sound with rough sound signature MM-500 can demonstrate at times is brilliant IMHO. This beats my beloved Meze Advars (IMHO the best pairing for iDSD Signature).

The percussion (especially during first few seconds of a track) in "Artificial Red" is also amazing.

 

[hierobryan]

PC -> ADI-2 DAC FS -> Arya Stealth

 

[Terriero]

Just wanted to share with you, guys, a new finding I made yesterday...

I have just listened to it with the HD 800 and was an orgasmic experience with a lot of gosebumps (but Jada, don't be jealous... ):



I hope you enjoy it a lot, like me

 

[mrjayviper]

aful performer8

 

[mrjayviper]

same phones as above