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Originally Posted by Fremen /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Thank you Penchum for starting this thread.
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Yeah, I'll second that; nice one Penchum. Thumbs up, mate.
I've just finished an intensive listen to Groove Armada's Goodbye Country CD and I'm getting some lovely extra depth and texture to the Bass and anyone who knows this CD knows it's got some seriously deep sounds going on.
I'm wondering if a tiny touch of harshness I'm hearing in the otherwise nicely detailed highs is perhaps the zero revealing the limits of my CD player or maybe it's something an opamp might help. ??
So far, my only criticism is that after switching off the power the selected input resets itself to the optical input and I'm currently using the coaxial.
It just means that I keep starting my listening sessions with a three second bewildering panic as the vu meters pulse and no sound is forthcoming
...followed by the inevitable and increasingly annoying realization... *doh*.
On first listen, I didn't care too much for the headphone amplifier section.
With my K701s it all just came across as too harsh, forward and generally over solid state sounding but I switched back and forth with my ATH-A700s and gave it some time and have come to appreciate it.
I think that my initial reaction may have more to do with switching from the Firestone Cute Beyond which I run through the Tube Head preamp which give everything a slight warm and furry touch to everything.
So, far I'm digging Me'Shell Ndegeocello's Cookie:Anthropological Mixtapes and Chris Whitley's Living with the Law.
The amp section handles itself nicely and it'll be interesting to see if it shifts in sound at all over time.
I still greatly prefer my Firestone amp to the zero's but the zero's is by no means a slouch and I intend to give it further listening. By now I'm even enjoying it with my K701s.
It is however too bad it doesn't allow for use of the RCA out and headphone amp use at the same time. I didn't realize you couldn't until I tried to jack a friend into the Zero while I listened through the Firestone Kit.