definitely u r trying to stir up this thread with describing the susvara as boring, well it seems u r bored and looking to stir up some excitement in this thread
I've got Susvara, Utopia, and ZMF VO; I like the mids on the Utopia better than any of them; it has a sense of depth that nothing else I've heard has matched. Susvara is great, but in a totally different way. It's like it splays the music open in front of me and I can hear everything very clearly, which is usually great but sometimes a distraction. I find that for me, Utopia pulls the music together and integrates the various parts of it better. So for me it's 50% Utopia, 50% Susvara, with ZMF being kind of the 'odd man out' - it sounds really excellent, but there's nothing particularly distinctive about it to me, either, and I like a headphone with a 'personality'. Using Holo May DAC and Auris Nirvana amp, through which the Susvara sounds superb and muscular.....
Perhaps you should consider getting a tube amp. The VO will shine in the right set up. I have Utopia, VC, HE1000v2 and I just got the Susvara and the VC is very different than the others to me.
Thank you for your suggestion, but Pashmeister is correct - the Audis Nirvana is most definitely a tube amp - I only use tube headphone amps; I've also got an Eddie Current Studio B, which is awesome for the Utopia and VO, and gets loud enough for Susvara, but the meat is a bit thin on the bones. It will be interesting to see how they all work with the Donald North Stratus that I've ordered and should show up by sometime next Summer!
Yuppers, and a fine and beautiful one at that. Upgraded the stock tubes, which needed doing, and yow! That's a powerful 6.5 watts that sucker puts out for those Susvaras, and I feel no need to try to find something more powerful, which I thought I might have to do when I heard it with the stock tubes, before break-in....
The Susvara will react much the same way it does on the Eddie Current, it gets them plenty loud, but it's not the best experience.
That's a point, and it could be why they are less expensive, too. But they are fine headphones, and I know a lot of people are passionate about ZMF. But for me personally, they just come off as a bit more 'dry' than I care for, certainly more 'dry' than the Utopias. But that's just my opinion with my ears and brain. Susvara is just too different from either to do a real comparison. And that's what I figured about the Stratus - I didn't buy it for powering the Susvaras; just hearing a DNA amp will check and important box on the ol' bucket list!
You have 819 pages of conflicting opinions at your disposal.
I've been asking similar questions several pages back along with literally hundreds of similar posts. Depending on who you ask they will tell you the two amps you are considering are awesome and perfect for the Susvara while others will tell you they're total dumpster-fire garbage. The amps that have some sort of semi-consensus (?) are all out of the budget you set for yourself (and for me too). I think there is some obvious love for the Bakoon 13R and WA33 on this thread along with many others. I decided I'm not going to drop another $6K to $8K on amps this year after spending about $25K on this hobby in 2021, so I intend to settle with the Rag 2 or GSX Mini until next Spring when my wallet comes out of hibernation and I go BIG and REALLY STUPID
They’re great amps, I use mine mostly with a D8KPro and mySphere 3.1’s, and I prefer both of those on the DNA over the WA33.
