Maxvla
Headphoneus Supremus
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Many of us also have speaker setups so using our speaker amps is no big deal. It's actually kind of intriguing thinking of speaker amps that would work well for headphones.
Many of us also have speaker setups so using our speaker amps is no big deal. It's actually kind of intriguing thinking of speaker amps that would work well for headphones.
I have a good 12v power supply already so I used this loaner program as an excuse to order one of these from 32 Ohm Audio just to see how a $150 t-amp (20wpc) made for speakers compares with a $1900 balanced headphone amp driving the HE-6. I also have a few other amps, receivers, and headphone amps laying about, but I was curious.
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... I'd love to hear impressions from someone with an RWA 30.2 or ...
Yeah, I kind of find it a shame that they have such high power requirement since it will alienate pretty much all head-fiers out there with their existing headphone amps. I know that people build dedicated stat rigs just to listen to their Stax O2s, but there is much more of a following for Stax than for Hifiman in order to do such things.
So you recommend listening to them straight from a power amp, or with your receivers speaker terminals?
the amp32's sound is not bad, though I wouldn't go as far as agreeing it being "excellent".
Yeah, I kind of find it a shame that they have such high power requirement since it will alienate pretty much all head-fiers out there with their existing headphone amps. I know that people build dedicated stat rigs just to listen to their Stax O2s, but there is much more of a following for Stax than for Hifiman in order to do such things.
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Interesting knob!