Hey. I paid about 2500$ for my HDVD800 - HD800 - CH800S back in the day. Bought it used from a Head Fi'er with 3 months use. No headphone stand included though.
It's a good price. If you don't like the HD800's brightness, there are some nice mods that i would do if i still had them. I prefer HD800S by a lot.
Hey. I paid about 2500$ for my HDVD800 - HD800 - CH800S back in the day. Bought it used from a Head Fi'er with 3 months use. No headphone stand included though.
It's a good price. If you don't like the HD800's brightness, there are some nice mods that i would do if i still had them. I prefer HD800S by a lot.
Wow, lucky you. I paid 1500€ for mine. The HDVD800 is a great pairing for the HD800/S, but you might want to upgrade the dac down the line. Still a good choice for the price and the amp part doesn't get much better.
Sennheiser said the successor to the HDVD800 would be released in October 2016 and clearly that date slipped. Its interesting to see Sennheiser is tightening their relationship with TIDAL which will soon release MQA https://www.facebook.com/SennheiserUSA/posts/10154643019119817. I'm astounded Sennhesier has not released this amplifier and it seems unlikely we will see it in 2016.
Sennheiser said the successor to the HDVD800 would be released in October 2016 and clearly that date slipped. Its interesting to see Sennheiser is tightening their relationship with TIDAL which will soon release MQA https://www.facebook.com/SennheiserUSA/posts/10154643019119817. I'm astounded Sennhesier has not released this amplifier and it seems unlikely we will see it in 2016.
You have been right before and this seems likely. Personally, i would not care if they added support for MQA IF it doesn't hurt DAC-performance or compromise anything in the amplifier.
But if the MQA support compromises anything in the amplifier, then they are making the mistake adding that support to the amp.
The competition is getting bigger and now we can get around 500-1000$ great amplifiers. (Schiit jotunheim for an example). There is no excuses, it has to be perfect when they finally reveal it. With or without MQA, perfect.
We have to wait and see. We are lucky if we get it in early 2017... 1
Just picked up (2nd hand) the gear I had been lusting after and been out of reach for soooooooo long (waiting for the right deal to pop up on eBay at the right time)
HD800, HDVD800, CH800S - as good as new
Am totally over the moon.
I do have a quick query for the experts (am pretty raw/fresh on the experience, listening and knowledge)
The HDVD800 gets a lot of praise as a great AMP with a so/so DAC
I also have in my kit an AUNE S16 which (from the few reviews I've found) praise it as a great DAC (AK4495 chip) with a so/so AMP
My question is - would the AUNE DAC and the HDVD800 AMP be likely to work well (as good or better than the HDVD amp) or would I be best using the inbuilt HDVD amp?
I've got the AUNE hooked up the the HDVD800 via XLR's and to the PC via USB, running the balanced cables to the HD800.
Am basically asking - is the AUNE DAC likely to be an honestly decent DAC or just a "good for the price" DAC?
Yeah - I know - "Listen and decide for yourself" should be the thing I do, but am wondering if it's even worth considering using.
The built in DAC is wonderful on the HDVD800, I have A/B with several DAC and the differences are minor. Unless you plan on a Schitt Multibit down the road, I wouldn't worry about the DAC its more than serviceable, its very good.
By approximate price give or take a few hundred - not in order of sound quality - and only in relation to HD800.
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HDVD600/800 - I had my doubts, but great match with HD800. very refined sound, but probably lacks the slam the better amps have. balanced mode a must for staging, layering, separation, openness. not an exceptional amp, but very solid choice considering price. HD800 is smooth with this amp. I found the amp circuitry to have its own sound which allows the benefit of using a variety of sources without too many differences. This is a good thing at the price level.
I beg to differ. A DAC on my PHA3 is actually a little better than what inside of the HDVD800. The HDVD800 DAC isn't bad but it is lacking the depth cue of better sounding DACs IMO. The Oppo HA-1 also has a considerably better sounding DAC than that of the HDVD800. As many would have agreed, the amp section is quite excellent actually.
I have given a lot of though about this Sennheiser's and TIDAL combination... And frankly to be honest, i am bit worried about what this can mean for the HDVD 820....
Maybe the reason was that they really wanted to make TIDAL partnership before releasing 820, to support MQA playback on the HDVD 820 (as @iDesign said)....
In the NYC Sennheiser store where you can demo HE-1 they are exclusively using TIDAL to playback the music.
And the fact that Warner Bros entire catalogue has been processed by MQA in TIDAL, when other major companies follow (Sony etc) IT will (probably) become more major and bigger thing in general.
New technologies don't necessarily mean bad thing. I think one reason why TIDAL signed deal with Sennheiser is that Sennheiser could add MQA support to their products? And TIDAL has been suffering lately compared to Spotify in sales. Maybe this MQA and Sennheiser deal could boost up their reputation? Alltrough Schiit refuses to support MQA, it doesn't stop MQA from growing.
I don't know. It doesn't really make sense to use MQA support in desktop amp. And HDVD buyers aren't really the group that MQA is targeted to. On the other hand, it doesn't really hurt anything to add it, IF they don't compromise the sound quality(?) *Looking at you HDVD 800's DAC*.....
REALLY wish Sennheiser knows what they are doing right now. Its all just punch of speculation before anything official comes out
IF we are getting HDVD 820 soon, this is damn good indicator on that one... This might be misleading and i could be wrong, but i think the first indicator in the market is huge price drop to clear room for successor(?)
IF we are getting HDVD 820 soon, this is damn good indicator on that one... This might be misleading and i could be wrong, but i think the first indicator in the market is huge price drop to clear room for successor(?)
It is more likely that Amazon is simply discounting inventory that has been sitting around. I suspect HDVA 600 and HDVD 800 sales are at their lowest low.
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