Salty Pickle
New Head-Fier
Hello,
I am looking to upgrade my desktop headphone setup. I currently have the JDS element 3 and my headphones are Focal Radiance and HD660s.
Why I want to upgrade is because on my stereo speaker setup, I plugged my Radiance headphones into a built in headphone amp in my integrated amplifier and it sounded much better. I have Rega Aethos and chord Qutest dac. I play music from my surface tablet.
The instrument separation was better, instruments were spaced out better, wider and deeper soundstage, flow of music was better and more emotional and details were crisper. The JDS sounds more clinical, instruments are more centred together and layering is not as defined, its more squished together, details not as smooth.
I would like an desktop headphone amp that matches these sound characteristics of my speaker amp. I assume class A is what I should be looking at? It does not need to have a built in dac.
I live in the uk and my budget is around £1000 for new or second hand. I can push the budget if I need to spend more money on importing from abroad. I could get something from the USA if its good.
It should be able to run both my focal radiance and HD660s.
I am looking to upgrade my desktop headphone setup. I currently have the JDS element 3 and my headphones are Focal Radiance and HD660s.
Why I want to upgrade is because on my stereo speaker setup, I plugged my Radiance headphones into a built in headphone amp in my integrated amplifier and it sounded much better. I have Rega Aethos and chord Qutest dac. I play music from my surface tablet.
The instrument separation was better, instruments were spaced out better, wider and deeper soundstage, flow of music was better and more emotional and details were crisper. The JDS sounds more clinical, instruments are more centred together and layering is not as defined, its more squished together, details not as smooth.
I would like an desktop headphone amp that matches these sound characteristics of my speaker amp. I assume class A is what I should be looking at? It does not need to have a built in dac.
I live in the uk and my budget is around £1000 for new or second hand. I can push the budget if I need to spend more money on importing from abroad. I could get something from the USA if its good.
It should be able to run both my focal radiance and HD660s.