Thank u jibzilla..
Yes i ordered it in june 2013! Its handmade by one single man.
well..as u know i had a very good modified 337 of which i believed (and the new owner says same thing funny enough ) that it kicked asses of amps many times more expensive on the he500 i had..
But trully this is in a whole new league... I have 24bits rips of vinyl with more then 4000bps..and on those tracks i hear things i never ever thought they existed..like the little humming u hear when the needle of a TT starts tracking the platter..a bit hollow..cant explain it better...but i now even hear the frequency change !! Just like u do when u actually listen to a good TT)
i have the soundtrack of Beowolf..in high quality lossless quality..and on certain tracks the high power drums kick in without any warning..first time when i heard a certain track on this rig i almost ****ted myself..it hit so hard..i knew those drums go low..bit didnt expected this..i only experienced this kind of fullness and attack in sound when i was listening to a extremey expensive krell set with huge mark logans speakers of a friend of mine...okay u dont get the reverations u get from the walls or the feeling in ur stomach of the vibrations..but for the rest..unbelievable...
And then the details it pumps it..its a curse sometimes!!some of the more modern music i have from the wellknow artists from now which i loved very much NOW sound rubbish!!! Its downright irritating... U can hear its all sampled and fake! Not like queen or meatloaf or any other real playing artists from the past...instead now the recordings are manipulated by samples etc in the music u have now.. I even deleted most of the lower quality (256bps and lower) i still had...it was to painfull..it took the pleasure away from listening.
But strange things is..it doesnt force u to listen to details..it creeps up on u until u actually find out what it does to u..i now dont try to find new details in my tracks..i just relax and let the music move me...i had to learn to listen in a whole new way!!! As because of those mentioned details i was getting nuts!! Now i let the music flow to me...and how it flows..
.i mailed this to gilbert (the builder) and he replied..'if u have good sound u will have bad sound also'.. Funny man.. I hate him
It now has around 100hours on it..its a totally opamp based amp (like NSL on which he is totally based on) so i believe it needs at least 1 full month to burn in..oh well..i dont have an on-off switch anyway..so i just let him play through my music all day long..
But i have to be honest..its not all credit to the amp!!!! The unique code-x and the very special 8wire dual mono balanced black widow headphone cable also helps big time!! Maybe the best of the sound is indeed this very special headphone!
Oh yeah..this weekend i will open a thread about this rig..i will do some comparisions and impressions in more detail..so stay tuned if ur interested.
