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Originally Posted by Nomad
Was it the stock amp a quite "tubey" one?
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Frankly, I'm not sure.
Other amps we did have at our disposal for a comparison were a RKV, a Rudistor RP31 and a Corda Prehead.
The RKV is a tube amp anyway and not suitable for low Z cans without the so called "Impedancer".
I did listen to a Grado RS-1 connected to the CEC for a few minutes. I'm familar with the RS-1 since I owned one for about 2 years, and it did sound very good.
The L3000s/stock CEC did sound very similar to the L3000s/Rudistor, but when I think about it the Rudistor could be called "tubey" sounding as far as the term applies to solid state amps.According to Rudi it was originally designed for low Z cans like the Grados and especially the Sony CD3000s, and it's generally a smooth sounding amp.
I should have plugged the L3000s into the Corda to get a broader picture since this is a totally SS sounding amp, but I don't like it's edginess (I've once owned one) and after I've found the glorious synergy between the L3000s and the modded CEC I was not interested in anything else anymore.
The next 5 hours it was quite difficult to part me from this rig, and the owner was comfortable with it since he spent the whole time with my Corda Analoguer/RKV/K1000s rig.
Since then I tried to get a L3000, but to no avail, and the whole combo would stress my wallet anyway.I'd have to sell a few of my K1000s and a few K340s and the Benchmark and a few mid-fi amps in order to afford it.
I do have a contract with my spouse : no additional money into my audio hobby.
Maybe I should sell my spouse to an Arab, but it's a nice spouse and those are even harder to get than discontinued cans.
In the end these were only meet impressions of admittedly limited value, but that's not my main point.There are several owners of L3000s in Germany I'm aware of, and a few others did have the opportunity to listen to them.There's a general consensus that the L3000s have to be equalized in order to sound extraordinary.
Maybe german ears are different from other ears.
Wait, one of them is born in Israel and one is of hungarian origin.
Just local opinions, and YMMV.