Draesk
New Head-Fier
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Hi,
I've been looking around head-fi for years now, but never registered. After slaving over technical details for days on end, your posts finally convinced me go with the Denon AH-D2000s when I was selecting some high-end cans for myself a while ago (which is a decision that I am particularly happy with).
After that small financial black-hole, I was in no position to buy myself an amp to go with it. However, now I am (or I can at least ask to be given one for Christmas!). I've been looking through details of various amps for a while now, but even what I've found was kind of difficult to extract - information on amps isn't nearly as wide-spread as on their end-of-line brethren.
I've had an overdose of objective information, and for once, I don't really find myself much closer to enlightenment. So, I've decided to try and find myself some subjective information. I'm looking for an amp to go with the headphones above: portability isn't an issue (it could be housed in an ATX case for all I care), but price is - I'm running on roughly a $200 budget. If the chosen amp would give me a back-rub and wash the dishes at the same time, I might just stretch to $300. I also, unfortunately in this case, live in the UK. As such, I'm severely limited in where I can buy things from - sources outwith the UK incur heavy shipping fees, and worse still, when customs get their grubby paws on the package, they hold it hostage until I fork up the 17.5% VAT for it.
"Feature" wise, I'd prefer if it came with a DC power adapter so that I'm not chewing batteries for the rest of its life, but it's not a deal-breaker. From what I gather, amps have a frequency response too (I originally thought they just re-produced the signal?). In that case, it's pretty important to me that the amp doesn't have a lesser range than my cans. You can throw the 20Hz rule at me all you want, but you can still feel frequencies below that - besides, what's 5 - 10Hz for if not just rumbling along?
I know this may sound daft, but I'd like the amp to have at least the input socket on the back - the output can be on the front or the back. For clarification, I'm defining the "front" as the side that has the volume control. Again, this isn't deal-breaking, but it would make life easier for me. 1/8" would also be preferable, but now I'm just nit-picking.
Given those criteria, what would you buy, venerable head-fi users?
(folk recommending anything by Behringer will be hung, drawn, quartered and fed to Behringer execs)
I've been looking around head-fi for years now, but never registered. After slaving over technical details for days on end, your posts finally convinced me go with the Denon AH-D2000s when I was selecting some high-end cans for myself a while ago (which is a decision that I am particularly happy with).
After that small financial black-hole, I was in no position to buy myself an amp to go with it. However, now I am (or I can at least ask to be given one for Christmas!). I've been looking through details of various amps for a while now, but even what I've found was kind of difficult to extract - information on amps isn't nearly as wide-spread as on their end-of-line brethren.
I've had an overdose of objective information, and for once, I don't really find myself much closer to enlightenment. So, I've decided to try and find myself some subjective information. I'm looking for an amp to go with the headphones above: portability isn't an issue (it could be housed in an ATX case for all I care), but price is - I'm running on roughly a $200 budget. If the chosen amp would give me a back-rub and wash the dishes at the same time, I might just stretch to $300. I also, unfortunately in this case, live in the UK. As such, I'm severely limited in where I can buy things from - sources outwith the UK incur heavy shipping fees, and worse still, when customs get their grubby paws on the package, they hold it hostage until I fork up the 17.5% VAT for it.
"Feature" wise, I'd prefer if it came with a DC power adapter so that I'm not chewing batteries for the rest of its life, but it's not a deal-breaker. From what I gather, amps have a frequency response too (I originally thought they just re-produced the signal?). In that case, it's pretty important to me that the amp doesn't have a lesser range than my cans. You can throw the 20Hz rule at me all you want, but you can still feel frequencies below that - besides, what's 5 - 10Hz for if not just rumbling along?
I know this may sound daft, but I'd like the amp to have at least the input socket on the back - the output can be on the front or the back. For clarification, I'm defining the "front" as the side that has the volume control. Again, this isn't deal-breaking, but it would make life easier for me. 1/8" would also be preferable, but now I'm just nit-picking.
Given those criteria, what would you buy, venerable head-fi users?
(folk recommending anything by Behringer will be hung, drawn, quartered and fed to Behringer execs)