spyrius
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I got my Hornet a few days ago and WOW. Even before any burn in, it sound amazing. However, it seems to pick favorites. The Hornet adds more body, fullness, and overall detail to any headphone I use it with compared to my bithead and compared to unamped, but it seems to get along particularly well with my Ety ER-4Ss.
I used to have a small complaint about the somewhat weak low end on the 4Ss. Not anymore. The Hornet improves the power and clarity of the bass by a huge factor. It gives the Etys a new kind of warmth I didn't think they were capable of. It also increases the size and clarity of the sound stage. I can now hear a very slight echo in almost all acoustic music that just wasn't there before. This really helps you to visualize the size of the acoustic space you're in.
Maybe I just never had the Etys properly amped before. Up until now all I had was a bithead (older, w/o gain switch) and even with new batteries and volume turned almost all the way up, it stuggled sometimes with the Etys due to their high impedance.
I heard this mentioned in one other post, but I wanted to see if anyone has noticed this. The Hornet and the Etys (atleast in my case) just seem to work well together. They have this synergy that none of my other phones/amps do.
I used to have a small complaint about the somewhat weak low end on the 4Ss. Not anymore. The Hornet improves the power and clarity of the bass by a huge factor. It gives the Etys a new kind of warmth I didn't think they were capable of. It also increases the size and clarity of the sound stage. I can now hear a very slight echo in almost all acoustic music that just wasn't there before. This really helps you to visualize the size of the acoustic space you're in.
Maybe I just never had the Etys properly amped before. Up until now all I had was a bithead (older, w/o gain switch) and even with new batteries and volume turned almost all the way up, it stuggled sometimes with the Etys due to their high impedance.
I heard this mentioned in one other post, but I wanted to see if anyone has noticed this. The Hornet and the Etys (atleast in my case) just seem to work well together. They have this synergy that none of my other phones/amps do.