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Headphoneus Supremus
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At a minimum, it is validation. I appreciate the comparison, because this is what I found with my expensive vintage equipment. Here I have all this equipment and many headphone amps, and I'm drawn to the MKV automatically. My wife comes in and says, "If you are not going to listen to that tube amp over there, I'll take it and use it". Then I have to convince her that I do listen to all of them.
I know eventually, I'm going to have to give up one of these for her use, but it will not be the MKV.
Originally Posted by robert_cyrus /img/forum/go_quote.gif return on my review of the MKV - I've decided to take an alternative tack on the usual review, and that is the following: I'm used to a relatively expensive amp/speaker system, which if you wanted to buy brand new would be £4000 that's nearly $8000 of amplification (pre amp, separate power supply, 2 monoblock amplifiers) and £3600 of floorstanding speakers (that's another $7000). not to mention the "trick" cabling. Now I'm using the same source, and feeding this into a headphone amp that cost me £180. Do I feel disappointed in the sound reproduction? No There you have it. £180 of headphone amp keeps me happy, and I normally use amplification alone that amounts to over 20 times the cost. Well, it's kind of a review ..... |
At a minimum, it is validation. I appreciate the comparison, because this is what I found with my expensive vintage equipment. Here I have all this equipment and many headphone amps, and I'm drawn to the MKV automatically. My wife comes in and says, "If you are not going to listen to that tube amp over there, I'll take it and use it". Then I have to convince her that I do listen to all of them.