I am looking for some advice on a headphone amp for my Empy with WyWire Platinum XLR. I currently use a Benchmark HPA4 with them and love it. I have no desire to move from this unit. I actually bought it for 2 channel music but the headphones sound incredible on it too. I also have the Bryston BHA-1 heahphone amp and I am not in love with it. There is a bit of a hardness in the sound that I can tolerate only with the warmer stock Empy cable, with the much better WyWire I get fatigued. It is not the cable it is the amp.
So in my quest to replace the Bryston I have looking for something a little different than the HPA4. If I cannot find something that will work for me I may get a second HPA4. I want a clean quiet sound as a baseline. One amp that has me intrigued is the following,
Broadway by Eleven Audio XIAUDIO Fully Balanced Headphone Amplifier
https://abyss-headphones.com/collec...io-fully-balanced-battery-headphone-amplifier
Does anyone have any experience with this amp and the Bryston BHA-1? Which did you prefer?