Quite old thread but HE6 + EF6 are still one of my favourite combination Maybe I will change it for smaller dimension and newer hardware but no rush because the EF6 has pushed out ifi iCan Pro after 2 years of usage.
Quite old thread but HE6 + EF6 are still one of my favourite combination Maybe I will change it for smaller dimension and newer hardware but no rush because the EF6 has pushed out ifi iCan Pro after 2 years of usage.
6-7 years ago when getting started in this hobby, I knew little about amps. Had one I loved (Lake People G-109A) but was a long way from the multi-amp mania of today. Anyway, when I got my first headphone capable of balanced operation (ZMF Ori), it had a balanced cable, but I had no balanced amp to plug it into. So at some point I became extremely interested in the EF-6.
But it was not meant to be. The EF-6 is huge, way too big for my desktop space. Even if I could fit it IMS, it was more $$ than I wanted to spend at the time (relatively few were sold, so they only came up F.S. in the U.S. infrequently). Only later did I realize that simply having a balanced output jack does not mean an amp is balanced by design; and that an uber-powerful amp with a stepped amp having just 24 steps would be an invitation to the "excess gain party."
To this day I still haven't heard this beast. But every comment I read about it indicates its sound would be to my liking...
@Pharmaboy Yes EF6 is big, heavy, warm at working and can be bad, very bad for some current expensive amps showing them what grandpa still can do
Because of age and previous owner hadn't time to listen on headphones I had to open and clean volume knob which had channel imbalance. It is quite unusuall but after cleaning it was back to working as it should. This amp gives a lot of meat to the bone and musicality in same time of keeping airy, wide and detailed soundstage.
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Maybe I will change it for smaller dimension and newer hardware but no rush because the EF6 has pushed out ifi iCan Pro after 2 years of usage.
