Hi all
I am invited on the last weekend of April (Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 April) at the anniversary of the showroom of Pierre Paya (a reseller of high-end headphones) in France, in Nîmes, with a very impressive presentation of the best headphones in the world.
List of the audio equipment present at the showroom, here :
Headphones:
Kennerton Thror
Kennerton Odin (and perhaps the last version ; the Odin "third")
Focal Utopia
Focal Clear
Audio-Technica ADX-5000
Audeze LCD-MX4
Audeze LCD-4
Hifiman HE1000V2
Hifiman Susvara
Stax SR-009
Stax SR-007
JPS Abyss (not phy)
Hifiman Shangri-La
Hifiman Shangri-La jr
Sennheiser Orpheus 2 (HE1).
Amps:
Auris HA2 SE
Auris Headonia (2A3)
Audio-Technica HA5050H
XI Audio Formula S
Viva 2A3
Viva Egoista 845
Riviera AIC-10
Viva STX (for estat headphones) with the Stax SR-009 and SR-007mk2.
Mono blocks Auris Forte 150 (150W) + Preamp Auris Piano for directly power the Susvara. (crazy, but impressive, beware of the volume on the preamp!).
The same mono blocks Auris Forte 150 + preamp blocks with the iESL ifi audio box, to power the SR-009, the SR-007 and the Shangri-La estat headphones.
Shangri-La amp to power the Shangri-La headphone and also the SR-007 and SR-009.
Dacs :
Auris D1D
Auris D2D
Viva Numerico
Aqua Acoustic : La Scala.
Sources :
NUC on Linux with Daphile
Melco NIAH60 MKII Server
PC and Daphile.
CD library + access to Qobuz HR
Source (info) : http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/post179474075.html#p179474075
I will bring a camera and I'll give you a small report of these equipments of dreams (headphones and amps), the best in the world in the matter, nothing else!
Hello everyone,
During the visit that I would do at Pierre Paya's show room, at the end of April in Nîmes (France), I will focus my listening on a comparison of four headphones, on the material I know for the amp, ie the headphones Odin mk2 and Thror on the one hand, and Susvara and LCD4 headphones on the other hand, on the XI Audio Formula S amp able to drive them all (in low gain for the Odin and Thror and high gain for the Susvara and the LCD4), listening, if possible, to both modern and classical music.
The other listening that will interest me in priority, at Pierre, will be listening to Stax headphones SR-009 and 007 mk2 on the famous Viva STX (2A3) electrostatic headphone amp.
After, out of curiosity, I would listen (at least once in my life) the Focal Utopia and the Clear, not to mention the Hifiman HE-1000 this time in V2 version (NB: a priori some headphones "clear" to my hearing, which would not a priori my favor regarding the sensitivity of ear that is mine).
read more at : http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/post179477001.html#p179477001
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