Seeking suggestions for portable DAC/AMP for HD650 and HD800
Sep 15, 2013 at 11:00 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 4

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I'm looking for a portable system for HD650/800. I was considering HIFIMAN 901, but it's out of stock in Japan for quite a while. Besides, as a portable player, it seems like 901 is still not very enough for HD650.
 
I was suggested to try HIFI-M8, but still, it's not available in both Japan and China.
 
Now, my candidate is Sony PHA-2, which is not yet released. I'm wondering the performance of PHA-1 with HD650 and HD800. Can someone give me some advises?
 
I'm open for any kind of suggestions.
 
Thank you very much.
 
Sep 22, 2013 at 8:08 AM Post #4 of 4
I check the HIFI-M8 on ebay. And the additional cost is unbelievably high, more 260 USD to China. I guess the costume duty is pretty scary. 
 
Now, I have narrowed my options to PHA-2 (release on 25th OCT), iQube V3, ALO Intruder.
 
Problems are:
 
1. PHA-2 may be not enough to drive HD 650 or HE-500;
2. iQube V3 is similar to PHA-2;
3. RSA Intruder only supports 24/96 files.
 
Can someone please help me with this?
 
Thank you very much.
 

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