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Awesome report! It IS spectacular. The HD800/Rag stood no chance. What you really need to do now is get a nice quad of vintage British or Holland-made EL34
You mention your upstream gear used with your home office & reading room.New BHSE/SR-009 owner here. This email I sent to Justin says it all:
Justin,
Un-frickin-believable!!!!
I can't even begin to express how much your BSHE and SR-009 totally blow me away. This rig has sounded spectacular from the second I fired it up, and it just keeps getting better the more hours its got under its belt. Its been on 24/7 for the last 4 days playing pink noise at 80dB when I'm not sitting here with my jaw on the floor in pure heaven.
My home office setup has featured a Schiit Yggdrasil/Ragnarock balanced combo being fed AIFF from a Mac Mini/Synology NAS via Audirvana via AOIP via Atterotech unDAES-O AES rig. The Rag outputs to HD800s and LCD-X phones or to KEF LS50/JL Audio e110 sub combos. My reading room system has a Schiit Gumby/Jotenheim balanced feed for the cans when I'm in there.
Both of theses cans sound superb, but I give the edge to the Senns as to which I would have on the desert island with me. Well, both of them now take a MAJOR backseat to the BHSE/Stax. THIS is my new reference system. I keep firing up one album after another, floor struck as to how I'm hearing stuff I never heard before, even on albums I've played hundreds of times over the years. I don't want to go to work anymore, I just want to sit hear drooling all over my keyboard!
Your work is pristine. The build quality as good as anything I've seen, even compared to fine furniture. I'm absolutely proud to display your artistry on my desktop!!!
I can't see spending a single penny on tube rolling since I can't see any "flaws" to try to remedy. The system hits paydirt in every characteristic that is important to me: wide, crystal clear sound staging; deep, clean bass; crisp highs; and absolutely articulate voices. There is just NOTHING to improve upon. This bad boy is every bit as good as everyone says it is. It was TOTALLY worth the 10 week wait.
So kudos to you for such a terrific product, and kudos to KG for the original design upon which you have worked magic. Well done, sirs, well done!!!!!!
Scott
I doubt those quick baked BHSE would have the same intrinsic qualities those which did sit 2 years in Justin's oven have
Ali
30 years --sorry, months-- of waiting for my first BHSE.I doubt those quick baked BHSE would have the same intrinsic qualities those which did sit 2 years in Justin's oven have
Ali
New BHSE/SR-009 owner here. ....
I can't see spending a single penny on tube rolling since I can't see any "flaws" to try to remedy....
Looks familiar. Very nice, enjoy!The BHSE uses the exact same upstream gear.
Yggy outputs via balanced to BHSE, BHSE Loop Out balanced goes back to the Rag. So I can play either system or both at the same time using the exact same upstream components.
I A/B the other cans versus the Stax easily by standardizing volume output using a sound meter buried in each left ear cup to level match as close as possible then quickly switch off head sets over about 3 seconds all the while looping the same track on Audirvana. Obviously this assumes the BHSE isn’t messing with the signal back to Rag via the Loop output, but there’s no way I can imagine that Justin would have allowed that given how impeccable his build is!
Scott
I own two BHSEs: #193 and #248. I got my first BHSE four years ago (#150) but it didn't work very well (maybe through my fault); Justin changed it for another new one --again I had to wait some time. I think that apart from its sound performance, the BHSE is so exquisitely built That it's worth having the whole collection.There are indeed only 2 BHSE in France, and we both had the hard (and long) path
Ali